Everyone’s going to the cloud. The cloud’s all the rage. Almost no IT discussion is complete without mentioning “the cloud.” But when it comes down to it, the cloud is nothing more than systems hosting information in a data center somewhere “out there.” Organizations have discovered the benefits of offloading infrastructure development, automatic failover engineering, [...]

simul-post The vhd Tool at MSDN by Chris Eck can create large VHD’s via command line in seconds. Wow! this is better than chocolate ice cream and just short of Spumoni. (And when the fat guy rates something in the range of ice cream you know it’s a good tool. Here is what he says about it… Latest News [...]

While the delivery of virtual machines is indisputably faster than deploying physical machines, it is often assumed that this also streamlines the process of deploying IT Services (applications). Virtualization can be used as an accelerator for building out highly dynamic cloud based services, however, the fact remains that while provisioning and deploying VMs has been [...]

I constantly have problems at access to nexentastor console and web-gui NMV trouble: After long time out i see: **Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /data/services/. Reason: Error reading from remote server Apache/2.2.8 Ubuntu DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8k Server at [...]

well, after the grueling hrs of all attempt proved futile (this is what happens when you don’t have the knowledge about the platform/OS/technology), googled for some solaris networking commands. having collected some basic solaris network configuring commands(for time being, i don’t want to elaborate what happened) but the following commands gave life to the network [...]

Am now testing NexentaStor on HP ML370 G6 tower, here are the specs, Dual Socket, Quad Core, HT enabled Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz 8 Gig ram (4g populated for each proc) L3 cache 8 mb 2 x 73 gb SAS (15k) RAID-1= System OS 6 x 300 gb SAS (10k) RAID-0 single disk [...]

after turning two of 10 servers into hypervisor , its time now to build a storage.After a intensive research zeroed it down to NexentaStor community edition based SAN.well the dream plan will be revealed in a week time…

Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge (is the codename for  the processor micro-architecture developed by Intel as a successor to  Nehalem) a single socket of Sandy Bridge is going to have 40 PCIe lanes each lane supports Gb/s IO bandwidthso single socket = 40 Gb/s IO bandwidthimagine 4 Socket = 160 Gb/s IO bandwidth really insane massive [...]