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5 min read

Adopting the Cloud? Importing vs. Building Your Enterprise VMs

This is a re-post of my article, originally published on The Ravello Blog. The cloud has brought a change in how we view and manage virtualization, especially for enterprises that need to deploy their …

  • Ravello
  • Management
  • Blogger
  • Administration
6 min read

The Difference between Dev + Ops

This one has been simmering for a while, so lets see where this rolls. DevOps (a portmanteau of development and operations) is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration …

  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
  • DevOps
  • Administration
9 min read

Read the vSphere 5.5 Release Notes!!

My previous post on the 5.1 Release notes was quite popular as well as the 5.1.0a post as well… So as always, the first things I do when a new version is released is: Download the bits - of …

  • vSphere
  • 5.5
  • Administration
  • VMware
6 min read

Virtualizing the Management Layer with Intigua

About two weeks ago I spent a very interesting hour with Shimon Hason (Co-Founder & CEO), Phil Neray (VP of Marketing) and Tomer Levy (Co-founder). Intigua? Where have you perhaps heard that name …

  • Virtualization
  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration
5 min read

Is DevOps The Answer to Everything?

I was just watching a discussion on DevOps, Automation and Continuous integration and heard the following, “Chef is a tool for doing infrastructure automation - config management, application …

  • Automation
  • Puppet
  • Management
  • Architecture
5 min read

Snowflakes in July?

Unless you live in a very specific part of the world - the chance that you will see snow (I mean the real fluffy stuff - not the artificial muck that people make) is really, really slim. But many of …

  • Automation
  • Puppet
  • Orchestrator
  • Administration
3 min read

Why a Single Feature Doesn't Matter?

Once upon a time… Nah… This is not a fairy tale so lets do it differently. What is the maximum size of a virtual disk that vSphere 5.1 supports? If you have no idea, then probably you have not passed …

  • Miscellaneous
  • Scale
  • Administration
2 min read

vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 Beta

The VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.1 Public Beta is now open. Actually it was already open on March 11th, but it seems it has not yet been publicly announced. Download Link | Release Notes …

  • Management
  • Beta
  • Hyper-V
  • Administration
8 min read

Ravello Systems - and A Bit of Deja Vu

A while back Duncan Epping wrote a wonderful post VMotion, the story and confessions about how people remembered the when they witnessed vMotion for the first time and asked people to add their …

  • Virtualization
  • Orchestrator
  • Architecture
  • Miscellaneous
4 min read

The 99c/Hour Computer vs. Buy Your Own Server (BYOS)

Amazon announced a few days ago the availability of EC2 for In-Memory Computing - The High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large Instance, here are the specs: Two Intel E5-2670 processors running at 2.6 …

  • Server
  • Management
  • Miscellaneous
  • Administration