Posts tagged Virtualization
Searching for storage: Tegile
Jan 11th
I promised some followers of this blog that I’d post some thoughts on what I am looking at and the progress of my evaluations.
Unfortunately we also did an office move in the intervening period and guess who didn’t have time?
Oh sandbox, you need to grow
Nov 21st
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources.
Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight.
Digging through dead server storage(tm) I have found a few old PE1950 boxes with old school Xeon processors. Gonna see what I can harvest from other old servers in DSS(tm) and give these servers as much RAM as possible. And I’ll need to find ethernet ports as the sandbox requires 3 to fully operate.
Fun times! I am very excited to see my staff learning how VMware works, how vCloud Director does its thing, how all of this magic really is not all that difficult to digest. Hats off to you ipHouse employees!
Building a sandbox requires planning
Nov 14th
I mean it.
6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth.
This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
Monitoring and measurement software, the search
Oct 11th
While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items.
- Storage vendors who do things via NFS.
- Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today.
This post is about #2.
I looked at a ton of software while at VMworld and more once I got back and I had fallen in love with LogicMonitor, found via a google search.
I also looked at a bunch of things once I got back, but LogicMonitor still keeps on winning on everything technical for us.
Understands things like VMware (vCenter and ESXi via SDK), SNMP devices (including device specific items like F5 extensions, Fortigate), measurement of data from Apache, MySQL (and I assume other databases), etc.
I’ll write more later, need to finish up my slightly extended beta test and work on the alerting function.
Check them out, so far so good.
