The promise of maximizing IT investments while minimizing complexity has resulted in widespread adoption of server virtualization. In fact, VMware users are now deploying nearly half of their new servers as virtual servers rather than as physical servers. Nevertheless, rapid adoption of server virtualization has brought with it a variety of challenges in backup and data protection.
There are many ESX Server components that can contribute to network performance.
To optimize performance:
- Verify that VMware Tools within the virtual machines are up to date. For more information, see the Basic System Administration guide for your version of ESX Server. Continue reading »
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The benchmarking was done by ParAccel, Inc., provider of ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), vSphere 4 delivered the industry’s first fully-audited TPC-H benchmark result in an x86 based virtual environment.
A cluster of 80 virtual machines running PADB, spread across 40 physical hosts (40 HP DL380 blades), broke the existing world records for performance and price. New established a record is 1,316,882 Composite Queries per hour. $ 0.70 Query-per-Hour Performance. The TPC-H Price/Performance metric is expressed as $/QphH@Size. Continue reading »
Today CloudShare announces the availability of FastUpload technology as part of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
FastUpload includes the secure channel to upload virtual machines from a VMware infrastructure and the virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversion process needed to use them to the CloudShare online facility.
It seems to have much in common with what the VMware vCloud Service Director (codename Project Redwood) is expected to deliver. Continue reading »
VMware and Salesforce.com appear to be launching a virtualization as a service offering based on a teaser Web page posted by the companies.
Details about the effort, dubbed VMforce, are sparse, but the companies promise to “make an exciting joint announcement on the future of cloud computing” on April 27.
VMware CEO Paul Maritz and Salesforce.com chief Marc Benioff will host the powwow. It’s likely the two parties will announce a data center tie up and some sort of virtualization as a service offering.
via ZDNet