Enrico Signoretti writes on Juku.it: We always talk about “software-defined something” (too much indeed!) but you should take a look at how Coho implements SDN and then I’m sure you’ll come back saying Brillllliant! (yes, brilliant with a capital B and 5 Ls). Coho data masquerades the complexity of scale-out and the limits of the […]
Howto configure a small redundant iSCSI infrastructure for VMware
Luca Dell’Oca writes in his blogpost: I’ve seen often many users asking in forums how to properly configure a network in order to deploy a iSCSI storage, especially in really small environments. So, I created this post in order to explain how I usually configure a system with an HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 iSCSI storage […]
Why Nimble should open up InfoSight to the community (like vOpenData)
Joep Piscaer from Virtuallifestyle comments: I like Nimble‘s philosophy on support. They basically took the management and monitoring paradigm from corporate server infrastructures and applied it to storage: made them all connected with a phone home type of functionality and developed a mature set of tools for data analytics. They took people out of the […]
Atlantis ILIO 4.0 — Persistent Desktops in Memory
Cormac Hogan on Atlantis ILIO 4.0: Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 introduces the concept of a session host, a replication host and a standby host. The session host is where your VDI desktops are running. Using ILIO Fast Replication, changes made to the desktop are sent from the session host over to the replication host. […]
HOT AND COLD VM MOBILITY
Ivan Pepelnjak explains the difference between hot and cold VM mobility: Another day, another interesting Expert Express engagement, another stretched layer-2 design solving the usual requirement: “We need inter-DC VM mobility.” The usual question: “And why would you want to vMotion a VM between data centers?” with a refreshing answer: “Oh, no, that would not […]
Openstack, Lock-In, Support Costs, and Open Source Free Lunches
After Bob Plankers got a lot of response on his first blogpost, he’ll discuss some of the points made with these comments and discussions. “*You* control your destiny with open source solutions and this is why open source is so broadly adopted in the enterprise.” — @randybias “You can just get someone else to support […]
10 guidelines for creating good looking diagrams
Frank Denneman gives valuable information on how to make great diagrams. If you’ve read Frank’s blog or his books, you know why you should read these 10 guidelines. A picture is worth a thousand words, but don’t draw a giraffe after you wrote three paragraphs about the feeding habits of elephants. Read the whole story […]
Long-Distance vMotion, Stretched HA Clusters and Business Needs
Ivan Pepelnjak explains why getting the business needs right is so important: Based on a true story … A while ago I was sitting in a roomful of extremely intelligent engineers working for a large data center company. Unfortunately they had been listening to a wrong group of virtualization consultants and ended up with the […]
End user self service event | vinfrastructure.it
Andrea Mauro blogs about Microsoft’s new MTA certification: Note that actually there isn’t a specific track for virtualization and is not clear if a Virtualization Fundamentals will be introduced or not. Note also that now there are two different “associate” level: the new MTA and the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA). Wasn’t a better solution […]
Fun and Games with VDR and Snapshots | vNinja.net
Christian Mohn writes about his challenge with VMware Data Recovery (VDR) and orphaned snapshots: I recently visited a client who had problems with their VDR appliance, and every attempted backup left orphaned snapshots behind. By default VDR has a retry interval of 30 minutes for failed backups (BackupRetryInterval=30 in datarecovery.ini), before it times out. In […]