Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1, the next generation of their ever evolving hypervisor. To be honest it would be hard to miss this announcement judging by the flurry of “first to blog” posts I’ve seen on RSS feeds and Twitter today (see the list at the end of this post). I’d [...]
Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye. Here’s a brief paragraph on them.
SGI Acquires COPAN Systems
In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash (press release). The [...]
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened.
Failing Disk
I [...]
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened.
Failing Disk
I [...]
My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed. As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time. It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted. After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the [...]
Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided. As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo [...]
Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware. All of this [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
In my previous post covering LeftHand’s Virtual Storage Appliance, I discussed deploying a VSA guest under VMware. This post discusses performance of the VSA itself.
Deciding how to measure a virtual storage appliance’s performance wasn’t particularly difficult. VMware provides performance monitoring through the Virtual Infrastructure Client and gives some nice pretty [...]
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