Plain Virtualization

You hear me right. Was browsing through some documentation and wanted to see any storage vendor is supporting Proxmox, the new player in virtualization. To my surprise, NetApp not only support, but all functions of ONTAP are also supported just like how it supports other virtualization platforms such as VMware, RedHat, Microsoft. Any virtualization platforms that support external storage solutions.  Check the virtualization overview documentation site . NetApp has extensive partnership with VMware to support day zero feature function. This can be seen from the support of vSphere vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) on vVols. RedHat OpenShift, Microsoft Hyper-V and Promox. NetApp allows customers to choose to consume storage in any shape and form namely, on premies physical storage array, in the cloud as first party files services from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes as third party service in CSP's market place and ONTAP Select (virtual appliance). With tr...

The release of the vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager allows vCenter 5.1 to be able to manage Hyper-V 2 servers based on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2. I decide to give it a try so I install a nested Hyper-V2 server and try to create a Windows XP VM it.  However I receive the following error: Description: The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to start the virtual machine '%machinename%' because one of the Hyper-V components is not running (Virtual machine ID %ID_of_the_virtual_machine%). Apparently, I would need to add in this advanced setting to the vmx file which I can also use the web client to add that. hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE" After adding that, my Hyper-V VM is able to start up. Now let's head back to vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager.  This is a 1.0 release so do not expect too much on it.  This can be found in your normal vCenter download page. Please note that this plug-in is only available for vCenter Standard edition.  vCe...

Recently I was asked by some customers who have not yet start virtualization.  They asked which technology should they choose?  Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM, Citrix Zen or even Redhat KVM. I would like to take this as a neutral perspective here.  Here I do not want to be bias against any technology but rather be open about it and to start at the base and looking towards the goals. What is your reason that you are going to start virtualization? Many wanted to do because they see people doing it and they believe it is cost saving.  Have you assess if this is really cost saving for yourself?  For one reason, if you are paying hosting of your server workload, would you really bother about if it is virtual or physical for the SLA you have paid for? Once you have determine your reason on virtualization, next we talk about what do you want to achieve out of virtualization? Many talk about TCO, ROI and really the cost savings.  Honestly all ...