Archive for the ‘Server Virtualization’ Category
Limits have their limits
I’ve been chewing on this post by Duncan at Yellow Bricks for the past month and a half. It covers some complicated issues that one has to deal with in a enterprise size environment with many assumptions on what gets you into this mess in the first place. The best thing to do is downscale [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: management, performance, VMware
Business Objects is Virtualization/MultiCore Stupid
Recently I have been involved in discussions internally on what it will take to get Business Objects onto a Virtual Machine. The main talk has been around potentially removing another equivalent product and moving entirely over to Business Objects. Then we got pricing for Business Objects. The standard piece of hardware today is pretty hefty [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: businessobjects, licensing, Virtualization
VMworld 2009 – Keynote Thoughts
Ok.. Its proven. No-one in the industry can keep up with Scott with blogging. You want a live blog go here. The Cloud. Business Complexity. Give businesses Flexibility. The great question is how do you do this? Much of the point is “Simplify so things can happen since it is so complex today.” People understand [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: keynote, vmworld
Virtual Iron dead in the water?
Is this true? If so what’s Oracle’s game plan? They just buy Virtual Iron for a virtualization management. Appear to have a clue since they are buying Sun with a huge virtualization skill set and product line. Then this info comes along? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/oracle_kills_virtual_iron/ In a letter to Virtual Iron’s sales partners, Oracle says it “will [...]
In: OpenSolaris, Server Virtualization · Tagged with: oracle, solaris, virtual iron, Virtualization
Cluster size of 8 is the only size to do
For a large organization that has more than 8 VMware Hosts (nodes) one should only make 8 node clusters for the time being according to the vSphere 4 Config Max doc. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf If you look on page 7 it says “Configurations exceeding 40 VMs per host are limited to cluster size no greater than 8 [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: cluster, maximums, vSphere4
LoadTesting takes a turn with Server Virtualization
Just recently I had an interesting conversation with one of my clients. In this internal consult with her, she comes to me and says of our VMware Solutions that there is a “potential issue with 4 vCPUs and scheduling” I looked at her and was a bit confused. I told her “No.. there isn’t a [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: analysis, performance
No more Parent Partition
Microsoft has renamed the Parent Partition in Hyper-V. It is now called the Management Operating System. Nice that Microsoft folks are starting to admit in passing that their is a heavy dependency on this MOS. Giving it a real name is a starting point.
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: hyper-v, server virutalization
Cisco joins the Server Market
Today’s big news: Cisco has come out with a single stop full solution rack for CPU, Disk & Network in one using all the best of virtualization technology of Storage, Server & Networking. Tight VMware integration, all Cisco hardware & lots of virtualization technology at 10G. Over the past several years I’ve kinda figured that [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: cisco, server, Virtualization, VMware
Cisco’s now a full service stop
Cisco’s throwing their gloves into the ring for server hardware. Now they can offer Server Hardware, Datacenter Experts (strong in Server Virtualization with their investments into VMware) and Networking Hardware. All they need now is to offer some Storage Virtualization Appliance on their Server Hardware and they can start to offer the whole datacenter in [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: datacenter, hardware, server, VMware
So how important is LiveMigration/VMotion now?
One of Microsoft’s big marketing statements I’ve heard several times is that LiveMigration wasn’t that important since clients don’t change when they do work on hardware even with LiveMigration. I’ll cover why this in depth on why this is a flawed thought for an enterprise company in a future blog entry. Along comes a critical [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: hyper-v, VMware