If you haven't heard Citrix acquired Cloud.com developer of CloudStack which is an open source Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing platform. More details on this can be read here. I have deployed and use CloudStack with open source hypervisors, KVM and Xen, with great success and ease.
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How will the Citrix acquisition of Cloud.com change the game?
Is OpenSource driving the Cloud?
Cloud Computing is all the rage these days and after drilling into many of the different services and solutions I noticed that opensource seems to prevail and propel the cloud. Before I go on my rant about opensource and it’s relationship to the cloud let me define a few things. By now most people...
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VMware and Novell SUSE Linux buy out
f your an avid VMware or SUSE user you are sure to have heard that VMware is looking at buy out Novell SUSE Linux.
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Redhat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2 Beta
Redhat has made their RHEV 2.2 beta available to current customers. A lot of work has been done to make it seamless to transition from Vmware and Xen to RHEV using what they call V2V and the ovf format.
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My conversion to the KVM hyperadvisor (Day Two)
So, this is my second day working with totally converting from having and Vmware hypervisor. You can read the Day One blog here. Today I was task to install a few vm guests, totally wipe my main Vista x64 desktop and install Fedora 12 with KVM. Again I choose the base install during the...
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Fedora 12 and the KVM hypervisor conversion (Day One)
I made and went forth with the decision to convert to Fedora 12 and the KVM hypervisor. This decision was not easy but hey... change is not always bad right? I just wanted to see how the KVM hypervisor and tools compared to Vmware VI3 and vShpere 4.
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vCenter4 HA Cluster Setup and Openfiler2.3
This video show an HA cluster setup in vCenter 4 using Openfiler 2.3.
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Sun VirtualBox 3.0.2 is Out!
Sun Virtualbox is out with a major update version 3.0. I have blogged before about how much I like Virtualbox over Vmware when it comes to Linux desktop virtualization. VirtualBox is not only supported on Linux though. VirtualBox has support for Windows, Linux, and OS X. VirtualBox also comes in 32bit and 64bit version.
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Riverbed runing Vmware Server 2
A few week ago the WAN guys came to me about these new Riverbed hardware appliances that can host vmware guests. If you don’t know Riverbed has a great products for WAN optimization. Our WAN team deploys these Steelhead hardware appliances, models vary, in redundant pairs and it’s really worked well in our company and has enhanced...
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Will hyper v run in a VirtualBox vm guest?
I have this running on a ubuntu 904 x64 system running virtualbox. Installed hyperv standalone vm guest fine. Installed window 2008 vm guest fine but could not enable hyper v. The video show what happened when i tried to connect to the stand alone hyperv vm guest using hyper v manager. HyperV in VirtualBox...
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