One of the big talks these days is around "Big Data" and the rising interest in the enterprise. This term "Big Data" is no different to the term "Cloud Computing" in the fact that it's a general statement to simplify something that's much more complex when you dig into the details. So in it's simplest form "Big Data" is the practice of gathering, storing and analyzing lots of data. The first thing most will think about when the term...
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OpenStack seems to be winning the popularity contest when it comes to an open source cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform but there’s another solution available. What is this solution you ask, drum roll please……..CloudStack. If you truly did your homework in this space you would have already heard of and probably tested CloudStack. But for those that have not, here is a run down of what CloudStack is and what it brings to the table.
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Do you have vCenter plugins that you need to get removed. Well here is a quick easy tip.
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For those of you who are still using vCenter Lab Manager the time is growing near till it’s End of Life (EOL). A couple years ago VMware announced that it has discontinued further major releases of the product. Taken from the VMware Product Lifecycle Matrix Lab Manager 4 will end general May of this year.
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One feature with any good virtualization solution should have the ability to make your VMs mobile. With VMware the feature is called vMotion and with Hyper-V it's Live Migration. When your just using the Hyper-V manager and you need to do a live migration from one system to the next you would have to log into the actual host (hyper-v server) that's running the VM that you wanted to move.
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So lets configure NIC Teaming in Powershell now.
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In Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming, you get to finally have nic teaming functionality built in. The built-in NIC teaming is extremely easy to configure, set and manage. Another important point to make here is that it also supports multiple vendors in the same NIC team.
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Thinking about trading in that iPad for a Windows tablet device? Well before you do, you may want to try using an application called "Jump" in the Apple app store that will turn your iPad into a Windows tablet like the Surface - well sort of.
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PHD Virtual Backup has another update that brings with it features that help enhance an already great backup solution for VMware virtualized guests. PHD Virtual Backup 6.1 now has a feature called Rollback Recovery. With this feature you’ll be able to do a full VM restore from a PHD Virtual Backup much faster than you could before. With Rollback Recovery you’ll get a much better RTO than doing the typically full VM recovery.
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I'm not sure about anyone else but I'm really over hearing how big of a VM a vendor can create or the promise of 1 million IOPS. This really became annoying while sitting in a presentation about Microsoft's latest version of Hyper-V but VMware, you also think the size of your "V" M is what really matters. So I wonder at what point does size NOT matter for the typical customer?
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