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Using XenDesktop 5 with VMware
This pretty much says it all: In this blog post I am going to go over using XenDesktop 5 with VMware. You’ve gotta read Jarian Gibson’s article, Using XenDesktop 5 with VMware, if you’re going to...
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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,...
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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...
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Long-Distance vMotion, Stretched HA Clusters and Business Needs
A great Q&A about long-distance vMotion, stretched HA clusters, and such by Ivan Pepelnjak. Ivan’s a networking expert, but he has gone deeper into the various VM-over-distance technologies than...
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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...
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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...
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VXLAN: Millions or Billions?
Tony Bourke comments at The Data Center Overlords: I was putting slides together for my upcoming talk and there is some confusion about VXLAN in particular, how many VLANs it provides. The VXLAN header...
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Some quick notes on VMware NFS .lck files
Get VIRTical comments: Another thread on an internal DL at NetApp brought up problems clearing stale .lck files. .lck files are lock files used by ESX/ESXi on NFS datastores to prevent multiple hosts...
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VXLAN scalability challenges
Ivan Pepelnjak comments at ipSpace.net: VXLAN, one of the first MAC-over-IP (overlay) virtual networking solutions is definitely a major improvement over traditional VLAN-based virtual networking...
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ViPR – Frankenstorage Revisited
Chris Evans points out the shift in attitude at EMC regarding “Frankenstorage”: Cast your minds back to 2009. At that time, Chuck Hollis wrote a blog post that quoted the following definition:...
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SELinux & Return On Time Invested
Matt Simmons disagrees on the usefulness of SELinux, and we suspect many readers might disagree with him! I’m a little behind on my reading, but I wanted to address Major Hayden’s blog posts about...
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The promise of software defined storage
Here’s a great, long discussion of “software-defined storage” by Ray Lucchesi: (c) 2012 Silverton Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved Not sure why but all the hype around software defined storage...
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Examining Open vSwitch Traffic Patterns
Another great piece by Scott D. Lowe. This time, he takes a look at how Open vSwitch routes traffic: In this post, I want to provide some additional insight on how the use of Open vSwitch (OVS)...
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The Intel Opportunity
From Stratēchery comes an insightful analysis of Intel: Intel’s Identity Crisis, v1 Intel originally found success as a memory manufacturer. It’s 1103 chip was the first commercially available DRAM...
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Very Early Thoughts about EMC ViPR
More commentary on EMC’s new ViPR, this time from Scott D. Lowe: Based on the limited material that is publicly available so far, here are a few thoughts about ViPR: I like the control plane-data plane...
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A new player in town called Nutanix
Nutanix has gotten a lot of press, but many people still aren’t sure what they do. Here’s a great piece by Roy Mikes, introducing Nutanix and their offerings! The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is...
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EMC VNX and Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) – Free Download Link
One of the most valuable training and lab resources is EMC’s full-featured VNX and Celerra virtual storage appliances (VSA’s) for VMware. These can be hard to locate, however. So Simon Seagrave’s post...
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Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server 2012 R2 announced and is it like...
Marcel Van Den Berg of The Dutch vMafia comments: One of the interesting new features is Storage Quality of Service . This important feature enables administrators to set a minimum and maximum number...
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How Link Aggregation Affects vSphere Teaming Policies with Converged...
Chris Wahl at Wahl Network comments: The use of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) with Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is rather standard with converged infrastructure northbound uplinks. This...
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Nutanix Tech Field Day “Demo”
Steven Poitras from StevenPoitras.com comments on Nutanix at Tech Field Day 9: I had the great pleasure to take part in Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day sessions again this year and provide a “demo”...
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