Archive for December, 2006
Time to virtualize and consolidate
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=22835 An interesting summary of how HP are seeing companies want to be more efficient with their IT using either vmware, grid or both. Check it out. Also check out: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3573731 It’s got a very interesting and relevant point that consolidating your server estate from 400 servers to 200, isn’t the key thing, it’s consolidating [...]
Blade power usage an issue
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/ComputerCanada/News.asp?id=41577 A recent study at the University of New Hampshire found that 38 per cent of the U.S.’s power supply was being absorbed by data centres. According to IDC, businesses will need an additional 12 million square feet of data centre space by 2009. An article about IBM’s new enclosure, it’s lower power footprint in [...]
Let my blades run hot.
Was in a meeting with one of our blade deployment and virtualization consultants we had in for the day. The datacenter guy and myself were stating the problems with buying more blades for this particular application to meet their additional capacity (we basically lack datacenter space and cooling is starting to be an issue). His [...]
Why vmware continues to grow
http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2852/23p52/23p52.asp&guid= “IDC estimates at least 75% of companies with 500 or more employees currently deploy virtual servers, and 45% of all new servers purchased this year will be virtualized. The InfoPro’s survey of Fortune 500 and 1000 companies found that 85% of respondents cited virtualization technology as critical. IDC found Linux is the fastest-growing platform [...]
How grid lives with vmware
http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2006/12/grid_and_virtua.html The question was simple enough: “when should I be thinking grid, and when should I be thinking server virtualization?”. “I think it makes sense — in the long term — to think of abstracted computing environments, and not virtualization and grid specifically. To do so could result in multiple IT stacks being built, followed [...]
Time to virtualize my grid?
Ask any of your IT management teams and they will admit (all be it possibly in a defensive tone) that the server estate at any point in time is 90% or so idle. That means that as a result of limitations with the operating system, application code, and due to the windows where your applications [...]
Vmware for production
There’s been a lot in the press of success stories with vmware; there was the water company that found the unique benefits of a virtual infrastructure. I thought I’d introduce a conversation that I was part of with respects to vmware for production. Before I begin, let us define what is meant from production. Many of [...]
vmware performance management
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1231666,00.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/SearchservervirtualizationServerVirtualizationTechnicalTipsAndExpertAdvice - the xml version allowing you to see all their postings on vmware -very good information A great article detailing how to improve your vmware session performance. One of the key issues technically with vmware was performance and the article goes over some easy ways to resolve this. The initial vmware implementation we had [...]
Grid utilisation
There’s a perception with IT that the busier the system, the more value for money the business is therefore receiving from it, (until that is there is a delay to the end user). This remains the same with grid, the perception is that if my grid is not near 90% then there is wastage. There will [...]
Grid utilisation
There’s a perception with IT that the busier the system, the more value for money the business is therefore receiving from it, (until that is there is a delay to the end user). This remains the same with grid, the perception is that if my grid is not near 90% then there is wastage. There will [...]
