Posts Tagged ‘VMware’
January 2021
Pupdate He’s getting more used to the rhythms of life with us. There’s obviously a distinctive sound to my lock keyboard keystroke, as he’s up and stretching before I’ve had a chance to change my glasses. Speaker fix I was watching The Midnight Sky[1]. It has a bunch of scenes in a spaceship, with very […]
Filed under: monthly_update, Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
Tags: ARM, Bind, Brewdog, Brix, dachshund, DNS, dry January, Elvis AF, ESXi, eTrade, Mission, MOT, OpenWRT, puppy, Raspberry Pi, reMarkable, speaker, Stream Deck, Transferwise, VMware, woofer, Zoom
Home Lab/Network
Background Jess Frazelle has recently been blogging about her Home Lab, which made me realise that over the years I’ve written here about pieces of my own lab, but never the entirety. Network Wired networks are better for bandwidth, reliability and latency, so I use wired whenever I can. Taking a queue from Ian Miell’s […]
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Tags: home, lab, Microserver, network, VM, VMware
TL;DR VMs on public cloud don’t provide the same level of control over sizing as on premises VMs, and this can have a number of impacts on how capacity is managed. Most importantly ‘T-shirt’ type sizing can provide sub optimal fit of workload to infrastructure, and the ability to over commit CPUs is very much […]
Filed under: cloud | 2 Comments
Tags: aws, capacity management, cloud, containers, Kubernetes, Turbonomic, VMs, VMware
Originally posted internally 26 May 2016: Last week I called in on Brad Meiseles, the senior director of engineering responsible for VIC. It’s a product I’ve been watching since the earliest rumblings around what Project Bonneville did with the VMfork technology that had originally been envisaged as something for quicker launching virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). VIC […]
Filed under: Docker, DXC blogs | 1 Comment
Tags: Docker, VIC, VMware, vSphere
One of the big news items from last week’s VMworld was the launch of EVO:RAIL, a ‘hyperconverged infrastructure’ reference design with software from VMware and hardware from a variety of partners. The RAIL part of the name comes from the smallest unit of deployment that fits into 2U of standard rack space, and onto a […]
Filed under: networking, The Stack | Leave a Comment
Tags: compute, EVO:RAIL, hyperconverged, management, network, SDN, storage, VMware, WMworld
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