Virtually Speaking: Red Hat has announced an update for its virtualization technology suite. Is it time to add Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to your short list?
<b>Datamation:</b> "Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the beta availability of its next virtualization platform -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2."
Virtually Speaking: With an acquisition, a maintenance release and a significant upgrade planned for later this year, VMware is gunning full throttle for the desktop virtualization market. But it's not the only vendor with desktop virtualization in its cross-hairs.
One of the key enhancements in the current generation of Oracle Exalogic systems—and the focus of this whitepaper—is Oracle’s incorporation of virtualized InfiniBand I/O interconnects using Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology to permit the system to share the internal InfiniBand network and storage fabric between as many as 63…
New virtualization technology offerings and marketing promotions help Microsoft and partner Citrix kick off a 100-city tour to convince customers that flexibility in virtualization is the winning strategy.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "There's no question about whether to deploy virtualization; the real question is what virtualization solutions to look at and what workloads to virtualize. We'll help cut through the complexity and help set the options straight."
I'm looking at the differences between using a file versus a partition to store a virtual disk image in VM use. The common knowledge is that partition-based images are faster than file-based images because of a decreased overhead. It makes sense, but I've never seen any actual numbers.
My own testing bears out a different result. When I…
Currently I'm using ESX (v3 and v4) to test a scripted OS (Windows 2003) and application install DVD. The DVD ISO (8GB) is mounted on a 1Gbps NFS datastore and the VMDK's (20GB) are on an SSD mounted via NFS over a 10Gbps link.
It still takes a lot longer than I'd really like for to run through a test iteration and I'm wondering if…
I have two physical servers with Ubuntu 10.04 server on them. They are connected with a 1Gbps card over a gigabit switch. Each of these host servers has one Win 2008 guest VM. Both VMs are well provisioned (4 cores, 12GB RAM), RAW disks.
My asp.net/sql server applications are running much slower compared to very similar physical…
I am not sure if this is the write place to ask the question. However i hope it is.
When looking for a VPS earlier today, I was trying to understand how each container would work in the background. Keeping in mind the fact that the operating system uses most of the power and power on a system, wouldn't having multiple operating…
I have a Win 2008 KVM based guest VM running on a Ubuntu 10 host. It is a raw image of 22G. I want to add a "data" drive which would show up as "D:\" drive on the guest. I first created a raw image using:
qemu-img create -f raw ~/vmdisk2.img 50G
Then, tried attaching it using virsh attach-disk. When that did not work, I…
I am running a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor. When I run Virtual PC in Windows 7, I get the following error:
Unable to start Windows Virtual PC because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled.
When running the Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool from Microsoft says:
…
I have a remote server that doesn't have any IP KVM capabilities, meaning I can't remotely power cycle it or access the BIOS. I saw that ASUS offers something for their motherboards here:
http://www.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Accessories/ASMB5iKVM/
But is there anything like this available for other motherboards? Even…
I see lots of documentation on how to manually set up a network bridge and then manually add vm's tun devices to these bridges and then write a shell script that glues it all together. lots of work, very manual, and not impressive.
On the other hand if you want to use NAT to KVM+libvirt VMs to the network you just click…
As you are watching Oracle's Virtualization Strategy Webcast and exploring the great virtualization
offerings of Oracle
VM product line, I'd like to introduce Oracle VM Server for SPARC --
highly efficient, enterprise-class virtualization solution for Sun
SPARC Enterprise Systems
with Chip Multithreading (CMT)…
If you’re using Linux, you don’t need VirtualBox or VMware to create virtual machines. You can use KVM – the kernel-based virtual machine – to run both Windows and Linux in virtual machines. You can use KVM directly or with other command-line tools, but the graphical Virtual Machine Manager (Virt-Manager)…
I want to built a virtualised Server Environment using XEN or KVM. The virtual machines should be purely debian systems - so XEN or KVM should be a sane choice. Now while buying servers, I am confronted with the fact, that the vendors obviously only support commercial solution. I think, on a good server,…
Data becomes useful when it can be leveraged at the right time. Not only enterprises application stores operate on large volume, velocity and variety of data. Mobile and social computing are in the need of operating in foresaid data.
Replicating and transferring large swaths of data is one challenge…
Virtually Speaking: Server virtualization in the U.S. House of Representatives results in green saving green to the tune of more than $700,000 dollars.