(In the spirit of Joerg Moellenkamp’s thought experiments:)
That virtualized Fishworks appliance got me thinking: What if you combined this with this? Yeah, managing Elastic Block Store devices would require some changes, but, if you needed a NAS for your EC2 instances…
You know, when this feature isn’t experimental any more:
Now when did VMWare say that I’d be able to automatically Storage VMotion my VMs off those hot, power-sucking Fibre Channel drives to SATA drives so I can power down my first tier storage overnight again?
Scott Lowe recently linked to a VMware KB article entitled Storing swap files on VMFS when running virtual machines from NFS. The article (from 3/31/2008) is perhaps the latest word from VMware in the frustrating back-and-forth on whether placing an ESX VM’s swap on NFS is acceptable or not.
On the ESX console, do the following:
Read the documentation for each patch.
Group patches that can be installed together into a directory, possibly an NFS mount available on all your ESX hosts.
Cd into the patch directory and untar the patches:
for i in `ls *.tgz`; do
tar -xvzf $i
done
Install the patches:
for i in `ls`; do
if [ -d [...]
Am I the only one that hates VMware’s patch download site and its corresponding applet? (Maybe - I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it looking quickly on VMware’s message boards, which I found most odd.) I’ve never been able to get it to launch under Firefox, only under IE (even on the same [...]
VMware has just released a paper entitled Comparison of Storage Protocol Performance (seen at Scale the Mind and blog.scottlowe.org); maybe this will help deflate some of the too-often repeated speculation that NFS is too slow for VMware ESX.
Given my last post, it’s pretty ironic that I’m right now in the middle of a VMware ESX deployment at work. VMware seems to have this reality distortion field around it that makes tech management think that - despite its substantial overhead - it’s the only “real” virtualization product out there: The rest [...]
While I use VMware’s free products - VMware Server and Player - on a daily basis, I’m very much given to wondering whether VMware has a future. As a company, they seem to be surrounded on all sides - Xen and Microsoft’s Viridian are closing in fast on one flank (well, at least Xen [...]