Oracle have now jumped on the virtualization bandwagon and launched their own VMM based on the Open Source XEN hypervisor. There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around Oracle’s support policy running within a VM environment as noted here Oracle (further) clarifies its support policy for VMware.
But does it really matter?
Well I [...]
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Oracle’s VM – Does it really matter?
Posted in Consolidation, Databases, Oracle, Virtualisation, Workload Management on 3 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ESX 3i hosted in vmware workstation
Posted in Virtualisation, tagged vmware virtualization esx3i on 1 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well thanks to all those articles out the net I now have my ESX3i server picked up at vmworld running nicely inside vmware workstation. Next step is to get even more esoteric and load up a VM within a VM, that really makes you want to step back and reassess what you are doing – [...]
What is an OS?
Posted in Consolidation, Virtualisation on 17 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Gee nearly 2 months since my last post (note to self: post more!)
This article by Diane Green of VMware made me think again about how you actually define what constitutes an operating system. (This also goes back to a question I asked Mendel Rosenblum at TSX in Orlando).
Looking at Wikipedia an operating system is defined [...]
It Lives!
Posted in Consolidation, Workload Management on 5 July 2006 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday saw the public launch of something we have been working on for some time. SmartPeak (http://www.smartpeak.com) is the start of a new direction for our parent company as we seek to show the wider enterprise market the benefits of using workload management software on their Windows systems. Up till know we have been working [...]
