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…two years since the last post

Frode Sandholtbråten — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:37:27 +0000

So, I just realized that it has been two years since this blog was updated. The reason behind it is not because of the lack of news in the virtualization business, but rather a lack of time, interest and opportunity to play around with virtualization software. So, for a fresh start, I have changed the …

RIP Virtual Iron

Frode Sandholtbråten — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:09:55 +0000

According to The Register, Oracle is going to kill Virtual Iron fron the end of June 2009. Now, I’m not that surprised, there are a lot of Xen based virtualization products on the market. The only difference between them is the management software. Now, I tested Virtual Iron in my project and found it to …

Clever solutions: Microsoft Azure and its fabric controller

Frode Sandholtbråten — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:07:34 +0000

I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft Hyper-V which I assume is the hypervisor used in their Azure solution. As illustrated earlier, Hyper-V has its problems, especially with live migration and iSCSI support. But, the Azure have some clever solution on its own. I found a video from a presentation held at Professional Developers Conference …

Cloud computing: Addressing on a global scale

Frode Sandholtbråten — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:21:56 +0000

My interest for virtualization solution includes cloud computing. Now, cloud computing is the new buzzword. Users, system administrators and investors hope that cloud computing will solve all redundancy and administration problems that currently exists. I am currently not that optimistic, especially when I think about all the new problems that cloud computing introduces. Today’s topic …

Updates

Frode Sandholtbråten — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:27:17 +0000

Well, it’s been a quiet month. I’m still writing on my project, and I’m searching for a job. In addition, the planning for The Gathering 2009, where I’m the chief information officier, has begun. To sum up some of the things learned from my project: There are a lot of shaky virtualization solutions out there. …

VMware ESX(i) 3.5 U3 and random stuff

Frode Sandholtbråten — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:26:46 +0000

Well, looks like VMware is updating their products again. VMware ESX(i) U3 is available from their site. I have installed it, but did not notice any differences. But hey, I have test lab, let’s be bleeding edge. VMware: ESX4 beta? :-))) On the other side, a few experiences the last couple of days: VM’s might …

Documentation…

Frode Sandholtbråten — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:39:27 +0000

As I’m currently in the process of writing an academic report on virtualization solutions currently on the market, I have been surfing the web for documentation of quite a few of the products on the market. I have noticed that a number of these solutions are poorly documented. As a general notice, a lot of …

Microsoft TechNet: Hyper-V release “party”

Frode Sandholtbråten — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:24:59 +0000

Okey, so it’s official, Microsoft Hyper-V is out.. To celebrate, Microsoft held a seminar about both Hyper-V and its management applications. As usual, the number of “we want you to buy this product” words by far exceeded the number of “our technocal solution is cool, but there are a number of improvements we want to …

Hyper-V for free

Frode Sandholtbråten — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:48:23 +0000

Just as anticipated, Microsoft is, according to Virtualization.info, going to give away Hyper-V for free. In addition, they are releasing a stripped down version which does not require the complete Windows 2008 OS. Even so, my original question still remains: do you have to buy a license for Win2008 to be able to virtualize your …

VMware Infrastructure: Feature requests

Frode Sandholtbråten — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:24:28 +0000

After using the Infrastructure for some time, I have a list of features I want to see in the next VIC: 1) Live cloning or backup: I know that VMware have consolidated backup to provide this function, but it requires either another backup program acting as a frontend or a number of command line commands. …