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Virtualization

Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

May 7, 2010
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[Or "my quest for the ultimate home-brew storage array."] At my day job, we use a variety of storage solutions based on the type of data we’re hosting. Over the last year, we have started to deploy SuperMicro-based hardware with OpenSolaris and ZFS for storage of some classes of data. The systems we have built [...]

Tagged as: Deduplication, Hardware, Nexenta, Open-source, OpenSolaris, Storage, SuperMicro, ZFS

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Sun’s Unified Storage 7210 – designed to disappoint?

February 23, 2010
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At my day job, we purchased 3 Sun (er, Oracle) 7210’s (part of their ‘Unified Storage’ platform; the machines are X4540’s with their specialized Unified Storage OS) on the recommendation of one of our vendors. The models we purchased contained 48 250gb disks and 32gb memory — no SSD’s. Our intent was to use these [...]

Tagged as: Customer Service, Oracle, Storage, Sun Microsystems, ZFS

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Web interface with Java console for XenServer (and Xen Cloud Platform)

December 4, 2009
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One of the things that is nice with the release of Xen Cloud Platform (which I mentioned previously) is Project XVP. As the site mentions, it has four major components – xvp (a VNC proxy to allow you to connect to the console of a VM hosted on XenServer or Xen Cloud Platform), xvpviewer (TightVNC’s [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Cloud, Open-source, Virtualization, Xen

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Xen Cloud Platform

November 3, 2009
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Wow, that was fast! As I mentioned yesterday, Citrix has open sourced the server-side components of XenServer. It came in the form of Xen Cloud Platform. As I expected, they open-sourced xapi, but not the client or the Windows components.
In any case, I will update once I play with it.. but this is great!

Update: Another [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Cloud, Open-source, Virtualization, Xen

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citrix to open-source xenserver

November 2, 2009
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Well, I didn’t see this one coming. It appears that Citrix is about to open-source XenServer. There are few details so far, but I’d expect that what they are open-sourcing are the server-side components — IE, their management framework for Xen. I’d be surprised if they open-sourced their .Net XenServer client, but by open sourcing [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Open-source, Virtualization, Xen

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virtuozzo on nehalem systems at softlayer

April 24, 2009

As I mentioned in my previous post, I discussed how to get networking working under Debian Lenny on the new Nehalem systems at SoftLayer. However, it seems like there are lots of users who want to get Virtuozzo on RHEL/CentOS running on these boxes. A guy named Shikhir got ahold of me via a Web [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Nehalem, Virtualization

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xenenterprise 4.1

March 31, 2008

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of XenEnterprise as a virtulization platform, as it’s based on open source software, and just makes it a lot nicer to manage. For some reason, it just seems to make a lot more sense to me than VMware ESX when I’m trying to debug a problem [...]

Tagged as: Citrix, Open-source, Storage, Virtualization, Xen

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