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Is the CMDB Irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud Based World?
The CMDB's that were designed and architected for static physical systems appear to be unwieldy, too difficult to keep up to date, and not real-time enough to make the transition into the virtualized and cloud based world. Virtualized environment change too fast for existing CMDB's to keep up, and the notion of keeping a CMDB… A Couple of Tips or Tricks When Working With VMware ESX using RootWhen working with VMware ESX there are some tips that I can share that can help you manage your environment. This tips are not anything really new or exciting but rather a reinforcement of some best practices to live by in order to improve auditing for compliance and troubleshooting. Use of the following in conjunction… Growth of Citrix and Hyper-V EcoSystemsPhD Virtual has gained its second round of funding with investment from Citrix amongst others as discussed within our post News: esXpress is no more but what does this mean for XenServer? Up until this point it looked like Citrix was out of the server hypervisor wars and backing Microsoft's Hyper-V play. Yet this looks… VMware Spring + Google: Dramatic PaaS Progress and New SMT ConcernsJava based applications can now be moved between not only a SpringSource TC-Server Java platform on VMware vSphere, but also between the same platform on VMForce, and now Google AppEngine. This level of support from VMware, Salesforce.com, and now Google is starting to make SpringSource look like the early leading technology for PaaS Clouds. This… CA Gets Serious about Virtualization Management and PerformanceCA Technologies (CAT) has announced three new virtualization management and performance offerings. This is the first example of a "big 4" enterprise systems management vendor getting serious about providing virtualization and cloud focused solutions. This will be very reasuring for CAT customers and may will accelerate stalled virtualization projects. Service Assurance – The Key to Virtualizing Tier 1 ApplicationsVirtualizing Tier 1 business critical applications is a challenge for many enterprises due to the resistance to the concept on the part of applications owners and their constituents. Service Assurance for these applications is required in order for their owners and their users to go along with virtualization. Service Assurance requires the integration of Applications… Data Center Virtualization – Virtualizing the Last MileJust like a Telco, the 'last mile' of Virtualization is often the most difficult, I would say even more difficult than the initial phase of virtualization. What do I mean by the 'last mile'? The 5-10% of systems that you have LEFT to virtualize. These systems are your most highly used, too X to virtualize,… VMware – The Applications Platform CompanyVMware will offer enterprises a very inexpensive Java run time platform that is tuned to virtualization, that facilitates very rapid deployment of Java applications into a virtualized environment, and that offers applications portability between VMware TC-Server run time environments and Java PAAS clouds like VMforce. This may well prove to be an irresistible combination to… CPU Contention in a VMware Virtual EnvironmentWith virtualization technology we, the system administrators, have a lot of tools available to make our day to day operation and administration of our environments easier to work with and speeds up the time it takes to do a lot of administration tasks. Take for example the ability we have to add resources to a… |
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