Homelab Kubernetes Setup
Setting up the network and admin server on a Scale Computing cluster. Read More
Tag: scalecomputing
Creating The Universe
Justin sketches out the basic infrastructure we’ll use for the Kubernetes From Scratch project. Read More
Installing VMware vRO on a Scale Computing Cluster
Hopefully you’ve had time to read my blog on getting VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vRO) running on Ravello Systems cloud platform. Since I recently took delivery of a Scale Computing cluster (kindly gifted to me by the lovely people at Scale, thanks @bocanuts) and I’ve been playing with image installs… Read More
Tech Companies With An OPiuM Problem, Part 3
If you haven’t read them already, check out Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. We discussed the rule of thumb for investor returns of 10-20x money raised in the first post in this series. Let’s have a look at some numbers that we actually know to see if… Read More
DFD1 Prep Post: Hedvig
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to write a bunch of preparation posts on the company’s I’ll be seeing at each Tech Field Day event. With Data Field Day 1 just around the corner (next week! Ah!) it’s about time I wrote up a little something about… Read More
Dell Solutions Tour 2015
I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More
VFD4 Prep: Scale Computing
I first met Scale Computing at Storage Field Day 5, and I was impressed. Their gear is ideally suited for small- to mid-size companies, often without oodles of bandwidth to the Internet to use cloud based services, and with on-site systems that need to be controlled, like manufacturers. The HC3x… Read More
Announcement: I’m Going to VFD4!
I get to go to another Tech Field Day event! Yay! <glee mode> Stephen, Tom, Claire and the crew have kindly invited me to attend Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin, TX in January 2015. The invitations only just went out, so the details are still coming through about who… Read More
Scale Computing In The Goldilocks Zone
Scale Computing know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well. The founders have built a system that is just what they wanted when they worked for mid-sized firms in the middle of America. I had a couple of informal conversations about Scale with Silicon Valley types over the… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: Scale Computing
Scale sell a converged platform: compute and storage in pizza boxes that glom together to make a cluster of 3 to 8 nodes, like Voltron. It’s based on KVM, with proprietary bits added into the mix. Scale make a big deal about “no licensing” or, as they call it, a… Read More