Mac Daddy P10000
It's finally here, the HP P10000 - aka 3PAR V Class. 3PAR first revealed this to their customers more than a year ago, but the eagle has landed now. When it comes to the hardware - bigger is better...
View ArticleFarewell Terremark – back to co-lo
I mentioned not long ago that I was going co-lo once again. I was co-lo for a while for my own personal services but then my server started to act up (the server was 6 years old if it was still alive...
View ArticleMass defections away from Vmware coming?
I have expected as much since Vmware announced their abrupt licensing changes, in the same survey that I commented on last night for another reason, another site has reported on another aspect of it -...
View ArticleOracle throws in Xen virtualization towel?
This just hit me a few seconds ago and it gave me something else to write about so here goes. Oracle recently released Solaris 11, the first major rev to Solaris in many many years. I remember using...
View ArticleRed Hat Bringing back UML ?
User mode linux was kind of popular many years ago especially with the cheap virtual hosting crowd, but interest seemed to die off a while ago, with what seems to be a semi-official page for user mode...
View ArticleInteresting discussion on vSphere vs Hyper-V
I stumbled upon this a few days ago and just got around to reading it now. It came out about a month ago, I forgot where I saw it, I think from Planet V12n or something. Anyways it's two people who...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with this picture?
I was reading this article from our friends at The Register which has this picture for an entry level FlexPod from NetApp/Cisco. It just seems wrong. I mean the networking stuff. Given NetApp's strong...
View ArticleVMware suggests swapping as a best practice
Just came across this, and going through the PDF it says Virtualization causes an increase in the amount of physical memory required due to the extra memory needed by ESXi for its own code and for data...
View ArticleCisco drops price on Nexus vSwitch to free
I saw news yesterday that Cisco dropped the price of their vSwitch to $free, they still have a premium version which has a few more features. I'm really not all that interested in what Cisco does, but...
View ArticleHP Moonshot: VDI Edition
To-date I have not been too excited about HP's Moonshot system, I've been far more interested in AMD's Seamicro. However HP has now launched a Moonshot based solution that does look very innovative and...
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