RavelloSystems provides a cloud-based platform for spinning up a test-lab quickly and easily, and it supports VMware’s vSphere/ESXi hypervisor through nested hypervisors (running ESXi on a Google or AWS compute instance). Platform9 is a cloud-based automation and control platform for spinning up and managing an OpenStack environment quickly and easily,… Read More
On Tuesday at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London, Google shared details, and I do mean details, on the way their internal datacentre networks are (or at least were) constructed. In a paper titled Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network [PDF] the authors describe how… Read More
Much is being made of DevOps of late, and I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients in this area. What amuses me greatly is how little things have changed in the past several decades. This post by eBay cloud architect Subbu Allamaraju highlights a central struggle of IT: how… Read More
This is the third post in a series on vROps sponsored by VMware. Check out part 1 and part 2. I’ve had vROps running in the lab for over a month now, and I’ve also been playing with it in Hands On Labs. Overall, it’s a good product, though not… Read More
