Posts Tagged ‘VMware’

Enterprise Computing: COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC

Enterprise Computing: COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC
Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye.  Here’s a brief paragraph on them. SGI Acquires COPAN Systems In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash (press release).  The demise...
March 11th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.  Here’s what...
January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part I

My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed.  As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time.  It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted.  After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the DroboPro...
December 1st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware
Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided.   As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo and presentation materials....
November 15th, 2009 | Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VMware, Cisco and EMC Join Forces to Create Acadia

Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia.  The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware.  All of this will...
November 3rd, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VMware Announce vSphere 4

In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here.  It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements.  The full...
April 21st, 2009 | Virtualisation | Read More

Virtualisation: LeftHand VSA Appliance – Part Two

In my previous post covering LeftHand’s Virtual Storage Appliance, I discussed deploying a VSA guest under VMware. This post discusses performance of the VSA itself. Deciding how to measure a virtual storage appliance’s performance wasn’t particularly difficult. VMware provides...
October 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Virtualisation: LeftHand VSA Appliance – Part One

I’ve been running the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance for a while now. As I previously mentioned, I can see virtual storage appliances as a great new category, worthy of investigation for the flexibility of being able to provide functionality (replication, snapshots etc) without having...
October 22nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Bl** Hyper-V!

Well, I wasted 3 hours of my life last night trying to get Hyper-V working on one of my PC/servers. Admittedly it’s an ancient 2 years old, only has PCI-Express, SATA-II support and up to 4-core Intel processors, but for some reason, my attempts to install Hyper-V would get just so far and fail...
October 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Could Netapp make a virtual NAS appliance?

As well as storage, one area of IT I find really interesting is virtualisation. Over the years I’ve used VM (e.g. the IBM mainframe platform), MVS (now morphed into z/OS) as well as products such as Iceberg. More recently I’ve been using VMware since it was first released and finally have...
October 6th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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