Posts Tagged ‘vmware’
In today’s consumer world one of the things we rely on are appliances – you know – white goods (although you can get them in different colours now) – cookers, washing machines and fridges. I always remember a question we were asked in one of my first physics lesson – if you switch the fridge [...]
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Tags: virtualisation, Virtualization, vmware
Had to mention this one now that vSphere 5 is available on a fault tolerant platform. Just as the virtualisation stack gets better and better, so the expectation of availability increases too. There really is no excuse for any downtime these days when it comes to the technology that is providing the backbone to those [...]
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Tags: uptime assurance, vmware, Vsphere
With Blackberry in the news so much over the last couple of days, it’s good to look at some specific technologies that are designed specifically to ensure adequate levels of uptime. Have a peek at this one sponsored by VMware and its alliances.
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Tags: Fault-Tolerance, High Availability, vmware
Here’s an interesting piece on the VMWare vs. Microsoft’s Hyper-V battle. I always thought that instant meant “an almost imperceptible space of time”. When talking about virtualisation and failover though….um….I’m not quite so sure. Firstly there is a timeout period of at least fifteen seconds. Then a management console has to scout around for some [...]
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Tags: Hyper-V, uptime assurance, virtualisation, Virtualization, vmware
This one starts to get a bit deep but it’s a rewarding read – I’ve mentioned before the ability of vmware FT is limited to a single core. By its very nature the number of applications you can run in this environment is extremely limited in the real world. When was the last time that [...]
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Tags: Fault-Tolerance, SQL Server, uptime, vmware
VShield beware!
VMware vShield Manager design raises availability concerns.
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Tags: Fault tolerant, High Availability, vmware, vShield
Link to great overview of the Hyper-V versus VMWare question.
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Tags: Hyper-V, virtualisation, Virtualization, vmware
I wondered how far into the new year we would get before the Vmware and Microsoft cloud computing comparisons would kick off again. If you went by the share price then you would make one assumption, but if you saw the billboard advertisements in California you might make another. What really matters with the cloud [...]
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Tags: Cloud, virtualisation, Virtualization, vmware
Microsoft v Vmware standoff
I hadn’t been aware of this spat going on between Microsoft and Vmware with reference to the Exchange solution. Sounds fun….not! That’s the trouble with lots of sophisticated solutions, especially when they have capabilities which clearly overlap, albeit in different ways. The choices these days that have to be evaluated are just awesome. I don’t [...]
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Tags: Andy Bailey, Availability, Fault tolerant, vmware
Many tier 1 applications still rely on technologies that are based on rapidly recovering services. Tier1 applications need and demand better than this. They need continuously available host servers.
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Tags: Andy Bailey, Continuous Availability, continuously available, Fault tolerant, tier1, virtualisation, Virtualization, vmware
Who is the Availability Advisor?
Andy Bailey is Availability Architect at Stratus Technologies.
When not blogging about High Availability, Continuous Availability and Fault Tolerance, he enjoys fast cars and relaxing with his Pipe Organ.
Twitter: @AndyStratus
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