
Amazon's recent outages remind us that deploying in the cloud doesn't automatically guarantee high availability. Where you deploy, and how you deploy turns out to really matter.
Posts Tagged ‘ High Availability ’Deploying in the Cloud: Lessons When Clouds BurstA Look at Stratus TechnologyThere used to be a FedEx commercial that had a saying “when it just has to be there overnight”. What if we did a play on words and changed the saying to work with Fault-Tolerance and or High Availability. The saying would be something like “when it just has to remain running overnight”. vSphere 4.1 Improvements in AvailabilityWith the release of vSphere 4.1 there have been some great enhancements that have been added with this release. In one of my earlier post I took a look at the vSphere 4.1 release of ESXi. This post I am going to take a look at vSphere 4.1 availability options and enhancements. So what has… EMC Hints at Storage Technology Breakthrough in VMworld DemoThis technique operates completely transparent to the vSphere environment, as only a single LUN is presented to the two hosts. So a single vMotion and a “logical” storage vMotion (actually hyper-speed synchronous dual write) are combined into a single vMotion which only takes a few minutes or seconds to execute. |