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 […]
Eucalyptus, an opensource project that we have already talked about in NASA’s Nebula project, in Canonical’s support in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and in our meeting organized with the AWS User Group Naples, amazes us more and more. The compatibility of the Enterprise solution with all hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi), storage support (iSCSI, […]
On February 1st, Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure Cloud Computing platform in 21 countries and declared the testing phase over, therefore no longer free. •Austria • Belgium •Canada • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Ireland •India • Italy • Japan • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Portugal •Singapore […]
On 28 and 29 October at the city of science in Bagnoli (Naples) an event will be held that will be able to revive a region, Campania, always considered the tail end of Italy. There will be two days of informative speeches, technical sessions, exhibition space for sponsors and speeches of various interest on topics […]
Participation in the 2-day training course preparatory to the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification for the new vSphere 4 platform, held at HP’s Rome headquarters by lecturer Mario Russo. Course Outline Module 1: Introducing the Next Generation of VI Highlights Next Generation enhancements by component and reviews upgrade tools and strategies. Module 2: Infrastructure Administration […]
For many IT managers, moving some of their applications from corporate data centers to cloud computing is a chance to eliminate a litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in electrical power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. “Pay as you go” for the computing power you need, and letting someone else take care […]
For some time we have been observing the Eucalyptus project, precisely since it was an open only project, there is also a recent commercial section to offer companies the support to switch their datacenter to Cloud Computing logic. The project was born as an emulation of Amazon’s Cloud Computing infrastructure, in the sense that it […]
Since the advent of the Internet and with the exponential development of access to the network, the increasing dependence of users on network connectivity, the birth of increasingly popular online applications, the gigantic increase in the amount of information deposited on the network, the growing power of web-oriented programming languages, the birth and exponential development […]