Virtualizing big data is always a lively topic in our discussions at VMware with our partners and customers. Interest is growing at quite a pace in this area and there have been some great new developments both at VMware and in the big data industry since last year. Read more...
There is an exciting new development in the big data space! VMware is collaborating with Cloudera to jointly develop a new Plugin for the Cloudera Director management environment to deploy and manage Cloudera’s software on to vSphere. For those who are not familiar with it, Cloudera Director is an enterprise-grade tool for deploying and managing Read more...
The definition and understanding of the technology of what is often referred to as “CPU Pinning” or more precisely “CPU Affinity” has been both distorted and confused over the last decade. This new Knowledge Base Article serves to clarify those distortions and misunderstandings. This is particularly important now because the desire on the part of Read more...
The long awaited update to the Oracle on vSphere Best Practices Guide is now available. Sudhir Balasubramanian and colleagues have completed the extensive project to update the classic doc for both Oracle and VMware versions. In this doc you will find references to many new features, approaches and architectural concepts to include Oracle 12c, VSAN Read more...
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. In the second part , we looked at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. In this final part we will look at he Read more...
UPDATE 8/12/2016 I’ve updated this post with an actual poster. See the PDF at the bottom of the post which can be printed at full size (24 in x 36 in). Emad and I will also have printed copies at VMworld US & EMEA. There have been several common themes recently when we’ve been talking Read more...
In the first part we looked at public, private and Hybrid Cloud and their characteristics. In this part we will look at the common characteristics of business critical applications. We will also look at how some of these characteristics relate to the different types of Cloud infrastructure. Common Characteristics of Business Critical Applications (BCA): Business critical Read more...
The cloud transformation is now for real. Customers have a stated long-term goal of running a majority of their applications in the cloud. Gartner predicts that public cloud services to grow by 16.5% in 2016. The highest growth area is cloud infrastructure, which is projected to grow at 38.4% in 2016. Today’s CIOs understand that Read more...
vSphere 6.0 Update 2 has launched and with it comes a very simple change with the way that VMs and Templates are evacuated from hosts that enter Maintenance Mode. In all prior versions, when a host enters Maintenance Mode, DRS will evacuate the host by placing all the running VMs, powered off VMs, and the Read more...
