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VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked openwhat customers wantCustomers should want open standards and non-proprietary flexibility. They should always have the option of switching vendors with as little stress as possible. Why would any company want to lock itself in? It takes away any incentive for the vendors to...

Tags: clustering, VMware Inc., filesystem clustering, VMFS, file system

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...

Tags: Hypervisor, Clustering, File System, VMware Inc., VMFS, Virtualization, Ip storage, Open Source, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Additional Resources

Scaring yourself and others

Hogwash!First of all, if you're paying for a static IP address, why did your ISP change it? Did the notify you prior to changing it? If not, they can get in deep trouble for that.Second, on today's hardware using virtualization causes little to no noticeable performance hit. ...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Servers, VMware Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Web, Virtualization, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, E-books, Open Source, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

The VMFS file system is one of the core technologies used in VMWare environments. Unfortunately, it's also a completely proprietary black box that makes interoperability nearly impossible. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Jason Perlow, VMFS File System, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-09-04

MediaHeal for Virtual Drives 1.0.0932 (Windows)

MediaHeal for Virtual Drives recovers files from damaged virtual disks (.vhd, .vmdk). Repairs corrupted file systems (FAT, NTFS) of virtual drives. Restores data and allows using files without virtual machine. MediaHeal for Virtual Drives scans corrupted file system and creates a copy of the file system with files and folders...

Tags: NTFS, Disk, File System, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Recoveronix, MediaHeal, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-31

Windows Server 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing

Windows Server 2008 R2, which released to manufacturing today, July 22nd, 2009, contains major functionality improvements in virtualization and networking over the previous version. This afternoon, Microsoft has announced the Release to Manufacturing RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2, which incorporates many hundreds...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Manufacturing, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Feature, Live Migration, Hyper-V Live Migration, CSV, NTFS CSV, SCVMM 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Virtualization, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Make no bones about it: Server 2008 R2 is really Windows Server 7

Whether you call it Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 7, there's no doubt that this is a major Server product release for Microsoft. While the Windows 7 Release Candidate is getting all the attention this week, I thought I might bring...

Tags: NTFS, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Improve Storage Efficiency and Management With VMware vSphere 4

VMware vSphere 4 dramatically improves storage efficiency while optimizing storage management and providing increased choice of protocol and storage vendors' technology. The presenter of this webcast will describe new storage related features in VMware vSphere 4 and how they work, as well as the benefits of each new capability. The...

Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-04-14

Cisco's bong-sized "cloud"

Peeling the onion on the Cisco Unified Computing System UCS reveals a very small onion. The platform they're promoting is tiny by cloud infrastructure standards. Perfect for a dorm room - but not anywhere near close to what an enterprise hoping for economies of scale or management would want. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Storage, Servers, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-19

VI Webstart: Deep Dive Into Storage and Network Configurations

This webcast gives a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the architecture of VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System VMFS; multipathing in Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs; raw disk...

Tags: Disk, Network Configuration, Network, Storage, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-16

Virtual Machine and Storage Integration With VMware and Dell

This webcast take a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the architecture of VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System VMFS; multipathing in Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs; raw disk...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Disk, Storage, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Integration, Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-16

VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote

20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...

Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-17

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3iI dove deep dude ...... and in Table 11 came to 'iSCSI with Broadcom GB NIC'. Might give that a try before buying a RAID card.How about an expo from you/Robin H. on iSCSI? Some free offerings out there for iSCSI targets these...

Tags: IP storage, Storage area networks (SAN), Network technology, SATA Chipset, VMware Inc., iSCSI, Serial ATA, RAID, VMWare ESX, ESX, storage

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Hyper-V: It's here

Hyper-V: It's hereI Love it ....Quote:"Hyper-V does have one drawback, in that it will only run on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008, because it makes heavy use of Intel VT-X and AMD-V on chip virtualization acceleration features, which are only present in newer 64-bit CPUs."I have deployed 20...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V, 64-bit, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Hyper-V: It's here

As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on noticeProven Linux solution VMware Vs MS Windows Garbage HVYou have the rock solid and proven Linux base that is VMWare vs the bug ridden and unreliable Windows base that is Hyper-V. Sorry, but if I'm putting my butt on the line...

Tags: Operating systems, Xen, VMware Inc., Hyper-V, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice

After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...

Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing

I just read something published by my friends at Virtual Iron. Their new CEO, Ed Walsh, formally of EMC, presented at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco. It struck me as quite insightful. Here's a segment of what he had to say: The benefits of server virtualization...

Tags: Server, Virtual Iron, Functionality, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-12-06