Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Distributed Power Management (DPM) for your Home Lab
Posted by on September 28, 2010
I am in the middle of rebuilding and expanding my vTARDIS home lab environment (look out for an update soon) but as I’m adding more physical vSphere hosts I’ve been looking at ways to reduce the overall power consumption as my lab has now overtaken the idle power consumption of the rest of my [...]
No Response from vCD Web Interface
Posted by on September 21, 2010
I encountered a problem recently in my vCD lab environment where the cell server wasn’t responding to any HTTP requests following some re-configuration work. After some investigation I found my Oracle back-end DB server had fallen over (this was because it’s a VM and I un-presented its storage which BSOD’d the OS (caveat:Lab setup!) [...]
Top Virtualization Blog Voting Time
Posted by on September 14, 2010
Eric Siebert is looking for votes for the top virtualization blogs on vsphere-land.com. I met Eric in the flesh a couple of weeks ago at VMworld when we did a joint session on home-lab environments, featuring the vTARDIS (demo videos will be uploaded this week hopefully). If you feel like voting for me, feel [...]
vApp sprawl in the cloud
Posted by on September 1, 2010
This question came up in a session at VMworld, if vApps are being used to deploy entire self-contained and silo’d application stacks won’t that lead to massive VM sprawl. Because cloud deployments are less considered and are a result of quick instant gratification provisioning in the private/public cloud by business units who don’t necessarily [...]
vApps moving centre-stage
Posted by on September 1, 2010
vApps were introduced as part of the vSphere 4 release but were largely a forgotten area of functionality until now. The concept of a vApp is as a bar-code for an IT service, where that service consists of a number of inter-dependent virtual machines containing applications that provide a service – for example a [...]
