It is worth mentioning the storage virtualization solutions that Compellent, a US company based in Minnesota that works in the field of storage solutions of considerable thickness, has arrived. Acquired by Dell for $960 million in December 2010. We would like to point out: Live Volume It’s like a storage hypervisor, a volume mapped from […]
Observation of the Cloud Provider market and the market of server, networking and storage equipment, makes us reflect on the farsightedness of some strategies. The well-known Moore’s Law: “The number of transistors per chip doubles every 18 months”, which corresponds to an increase of about 60% in the RAM and CPU of our servers, has […]
We have recently come up against problems of installation/configuration of virtualization in innovative HW environments for the creation of a virtual mini datacenter. The activity was carried out in collaboration with the Clara Consortium, with which we carried out the design and implementation of the virtual rack / datacenter in four arms. The equipment was […]
As is known to operators in the sector, the fundamental difference between ESX and ESXi Hypervisors, in addition to the very convenient possibility of being able to use ESXi in free mode, is the lack of the Management Console. But in truth the CLI in ESXi is not missing, it is simply deactivated and here […]
For those who thought that the Xen opensource project was at a standstill or in agony, here we are at the 4.0 release of the hypervisor with great news. We will also describe a series of important news about the Xen Client Initiative (XCI) and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) projects. The new features of version […]
On February 22-24, Parallels, the largest hosting software vendor, at its annual summit in Miami , presented the first bare-metal hypervisor for Xserve Mac OS X, a solution soon embraced by GoDaddy to launch a new VPS based on Mac OS X. I was wondering in a Hypervisor market where the leadership is VMware (ESX4 […]
EBS : Elastic Block Storage, one of the web services that we believe is fundamental for a self-respecting cloud computing infrastructure, now allows booting. What is EBS: A service capable of creating a storage volume that we can link to an EC2 server instance, is defined as persistent to differentiate it from the storage with […]
The addition of a new host server installed with the free XenServer Enterprise 5.5 hypervisor, even if it can be trivial using the XenCenter graphical interface It can easily generate errors even if the host machines are practically the same, of the same brand and model, this is because to allow a painless XenMotion migration, […]
We attended this dutiful event in the beautiful Sheraton Golf2 Hotel in Rome. Below is the agenda: 9.30 Registration of participants 10.00 Welcome and opening of the meeting Luigi Marcocchia, Softway 10.10 How to harness the power of virtualization to transform Data Centers into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, capable of providing advanced, reliable, flexible and […]
The proliferation of datacenters, the number of under-used servers, the delays and complexity in designing and implementing a reliable and scalable multi-tier infrastructure, the need of companies to no longer want to worry about the infrastructure, to no longer want to keep “in-house” system engineers and architects useful only at certain times, are finally developing […]
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