Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Virtualization
Virtualization – the key to delivering "cloud based architecture" NOW.
Posted by on June 23, 2008
There is a lot of talk about delivering cloud or elastic computing platforms, a lot of CxO’s are taking this all in and nodding enthusiastically, they can see the benefits.. so make it happen!….yesterday. Moving your services to the cloud, isn’t always about giving your apps and data to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. You [...]
VMWare/Cisco Switching Integration
Posted by on June 21, 2008
As noted here there is a doc that has been jointly produced between VMWare and Cisco which has all the details required for integrating VI virtual switches with physical switching. Especially handy if you need to work with networking teams to make sure things are configured correctly to allow failover properly between redundant switches/fabrics [...]
LiveBlogging from TechEd
Posted by on June 12, 2008
Scott has an excellent series of articles that he’s relaying from sessions at Microsoft TechEd US.. looks good for Hyper V and SCVMM content.. http://blog.scottlowe.org/
Slow vMotion..
Posted by on June 2, 2008
Note to remember, don’t forget to check the duplex settings on NICs handling your vMotion traffic. My updated clustered ESX test lab is progressing (more posts on that in the next week or so)… and I’m kind of limited in that I only have an old 24-port 100Mb Cisco hub for the networking at [...]
Free SAN for your Home/Work ESX Lab
Posted by on May 25, 2008
VM/Etc have posted an excellent article about a free iSCSI SAN VM appliance that you can download from Xtravirt it uses replication between 2 ESX hosts to allow you to configure DRS/HA etc. Excellent, I’m going to procure another cheap ESX host in the next couple of weeks so will post back on my [...]
A Closer look at Green IT and Microsoft’s new Container Data Centre in Chicago
Posted by on May 24, 2008
Link here – good visualisation about 10mins in of how their new Chicago data centre is laid out internally. With virtualisation breaking the traditional hardware/OS ties; this is becoming an increasingly appealing way of managing commodity compute grid resources for large organisations. Mike makes some good points about the de-comissioning of servers on a [...]
Running ESX 3.5 and 3i Under VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta Build 91182
Posted by on May 18, 2008
Following on from my earlier post I upgraded my installation to the new build of 6.5. it un-installed the old build and re-installed the latest without a problem, took about 30mins and required a reboot of the host OS. All my previously suspended XP/2003 VM’s resumed ok without a restart but needed an upgrade [...]
New VMWare Workstation 6.5 Build(s) and ability to run ESX 3.5
Posted by on May 18, 2008
As a result of this post from Eric Sloof I note there is a new build of Workstation 6.5 available; I hadn’t noticed this as I haven’t had much time to follow the forums and my beta/RC (as used in this post and installed here is build 84113) hasn’t notified me there is a [...]
Deleting a Virtual Machine from Virtual Center and Disk
Posted by on May 14, 2008
If you deploy your VM’s from a master image using Virtual Center’s Deploy from template functionality (below). When you try and delete a virtual machine you’ve created from disk You get the following prompt Are you sure you want to delete this VM and it’s associated base disk? Please note if other VMs [...]
Solid Sate SAN, Storage vMotion and VMWare – HSM for your VMs
Posted by on May 13, 2008
You’ve been able to buy solid state SAN technology like the Tera-RAMSAN from TMS which gives you up to 1Tb of storage, presented over 4Gb/s fibre channel or Infiniband @10Gb/s… with the cost of flash storage dropping its going to soon fall in to the realms of affordability (from memory a year ago 1Tb [...]
