What Windows OS and database platform is your virtual infrastructure running on?
With over 20 database software platforms, numerous OSes, there is bound to be problems and incompatibility issues. I’ve had an opportunity to deal with one of those issues over the last few days. At one of my clients, vCenter 4.1 was running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Express edition, everything was working as it should until the VMware vCenter services started failing, vSphere client would not authenticate and log system admins into management console, so in other words, major problems as server provisioning and deployments were delayed!
Author: Haroon Mohammad
Will the Cloud Kill Virtualization?
When virtualization technology first came on the market, there was a lot of confusion as to what it was and whether it could really be used for production workloads. In the beginning, it was tough going. Hosted virtualization products, such as Microsoft Virtual Server, didn’t provide the best performance.
Zenoss Announces Free Tool for VMware Power Users with Esxtop
VMware esxtop gives you more than just metrics, it helps with troubleshooting your environment and it shows you where the problem actually is. Similar to the Unix “Top” command, esxtop gives you real-time system performance data of your ESX/ESXi servers. One of the tricks being that you have to access this through the command line interface of the individual server.
BLADE Delivers IBM Virtual Fabric for IBM System x
BLADE Network Technologies, the data center switching and network virtualization company, announced today that its 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch now extends the popular IBM Virtual Fabric, previously available only for BladeCenter, to multiple System x tower and rack-optimized systems.
First OpenStack Release Produces Open Source Cloud Alternative
OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform with broad developer and commercial support, today announced the “Austin” code release of OpenStack Compute and Object Storage. Since the project’s inception three months ago, OpenStack has built an active community of contributors, delivered on its code release and feature commitments, attracted new member organizations and received significant interest from enterprises and service providers.
Microsoft opens MED-V 2.0 beta to the public
This week Microsoft opened up a public beta of Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 2.0. So what exactly is MED-V? It’s an enterprise management solution that uses Microsoft Virtual PC as a platform in order to provide a localized strategy for desktop virtualization, but with centralized management. It helps to create, deploy, manage, monitor, and control Virtual PC virtual machines in a corporate environment.
VMware Strengthens End User Computing Strategy at VMworld 2010 Europe
Today at VMworld 2010 Europe, VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, advanced its vision for the future of end user computing with new products and a partnership to help organizations evolve their legacy desktop computing environments to a more modern, user-centric application and data delivery model.
Top 10 Backup Mistakes in Virtual Environment
As Virtualization and cloud computing technology spreads its wings, backup and data protection of virtual infrastructure is becoming a vital part of many IT departments data backup planning. Dave Elliott has written a great piece on what not to do when considering virtualization backup solutions in your greater organizational disaster recovery strategy and planning.