We re-publish this interesting infographic found on the net, it would seem created by Visiwa lab. It’s an infographic that manages to group some salient points of the history of Cloud Computing, maybe I would have mentioned them and fixed some mistakes, but the idea is very good. As we always say, the Cloud starts […]
Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Data Center and Cloud division, announced on the Citrix blog that he wants to leave the company to start a new professional adventure in a Cloud startup focused on virtualization and security, Bromium. Simon Crosby co-founder of XenSource, acquired 4 years ago by Citrix, together with Ian Pratt join Gaurav […]
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, […]
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, […]
For those who follow our updates, not long ago we published the following article: high-availability-free-kemari-allo-xen-summit-asia-tokyo On the new horizons of high availability of the XEN open source project. In the demos of the RoadMap of the VMware portal there is a video on a new very interesting feature, VMware Fault Tolerance, which exploits, as it […]
This is a mini guide to the chapter on swapping formats between Virtual Machine Manager. In this case we have native Microsoft Virtual Server VMs and we want to mount them on XenServer. The issue is simplified by the fact that they both use the VHD format as virtual disks. The operations to be carried […]
Big news from the Xen Summit in Tokyo in November 2008. Below is the agenda: Welcome & Keynote Hitoshi Matsumoto: Welcome Ian Pratt: Xen Project Status – English – Video (177 MB) Kernel Architecture Andrew Warfield: Services in the Virtualization Plane – English – Video (134 MB) Yoshiaki Tamura: Modernization of Kemari Using HVM with […]