CloudStack 4.3 cloud platform is now available
CloudStack 4.3 was released last week. There are plenty of new features and improvements added to what was already a great cloud platform. The release comes ahead of the CloudStack Collaboration...
View ArticleThe Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Space Is Heating Up!
VMware recently announced there EVO:RAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCIA) offering. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is a combination of compute, network and storage resources into a single unit of...
View ArticleApache CloudStack 4.4 with Advanced Networking Setup Pt.3 – VPC and GRE
So I’m at the last post in the series on advanced networking with Apache CloudStack 4.4 and I decided to let the videos do all the work instead of creating a long drawn out post. I could have added...
View ArticleThe IT Infrastructure Paradox of Choice
Today software is king and hardware is a commodity. There are lots of innovative products and solutions, in the IT infrastructure space alone, flooding the market today because of this. From private,...
View ArticleProxmox VE 3.3 Release – What's new.
Proxmox VE is a complete open source virtualization management solution for servers. Proxmox is based on KVM virtualization and container-based virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage,...
View Article10GbE and Software-Defined Infrastructure
Time has turned the standard practices of yesteryear on it’s head mostly due to virtualization and cloud computing. The jump from storage area networks (SAN) to converged infrastructure was a slow one...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix, a match made in Hyper-Convergence
My beginning like most started with VMware virtualization. Back then the enterprise was a baby and I was painfully trying the feed it green pea baby food. Can you picture virtualization on a spoon...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix, a match made in Hyper-Convergence Pt.2
Now that we have the high-level benefits or reasons to consider Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix lets get into some of the configuration details. I’ll first show how it was done before Nutanix because it...
View ArticleAre we on the brink of complete hardware commoditization?
Some will say hardware commoditization is here. The hardware I speak of, in general, is the computer components that make up compute, network and storage. I liked the tweet sent by John Troyer founder...
View ArticleApache Mesos on Apache CloudStack
Mesos is an abstract layer for CPU, memory and storage resources. Its intended to be somewhat of a datacenter operating system (DCOS). Mesos is absolutely awesome and I wanted to mix it up with some...
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