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NetApp Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3: Best Practices / Deployment

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Apr 25 2012 | Comments (2)
After my previous post “Stop The Crave For Useless Cool Features“ I had some interesting discussions on the matter with colleagues of mine whom I find very intelligent. Most of them indeed responded to the provocative...

Stop The Crave For Useless Cool Features

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Apr 02 2012 | Comments (3)
New technologies always bring new cool possibilities that did not exist before.Technology helps us cook our food, technology helps us improve our health, and technology also brings us amazing products such as this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generic-USB-Humping-Dog/dp/B000SQDNIM) I’ve...

I’m back writing

Posted by admin | On: Mar 29 2012 | Comments (0)
Well, that’s little awkward. I’ve noticed RHEV 3.0 is generally available for more than 2 months already and I have not shared a word of my experience about it. Fact is I’ve been working so much the past...

The Red Hat Cloud – Strategy and Tactics

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Nov 21 2011 | Comments (0)
As this Cloud concept is a bit cloudy and each vendor tries to redefine this on it’s own way,first I would like to make sure we are all on the same page here. Lets use the Wikipedia definition: “Cloud computing is...

RHEV 3.0 *Beta* Is Here – Installation Review

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Aug 23 2011 | Comments (8)
RHEV 3 Beta is out, here is my first impression – Installing it is a JOY(!) with some small hidden challenges.   RHEV-M ///M for Manager No more M$ windows  ”click next here, click next there, click next...

KVM cool stuff – Virtual Can Be Physical

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Aug 17 2011 | Comments (0)
From the Enterprise point of view Virtualization is a game changer for it’s many advantages over traditional computing. But lets not forget the cool stuff we can do with it back home.   Virtual (Disk) Can be Physical (Disk) Maybe...

NetApp as NFS Storage for RHEV

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: May 31 2011 | Comments (3)
UPDATE 25 April ’12: NetApp Best Practice and Deployment Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has pretty extended and detailed documentation for setting the prerequisites...

Under The Hood Of a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (aka KVM Architecture)

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Apr 27 2011 | Comments (0)
I’ve been getting this questions quit a lot lately “What are the main differences between RHEV and other virtualization platforms out there today? ” There are many features each virtualization vendor brags...

Would you stop choking yourself ?

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Feb 22 2011 | Comments (1)
Planing and sizing new virtualization projects is usually driven by 2 scenarios. The first is migration from physical hardware to virtual environment, when the rules are pretty straight forward. Calculate current CPU,memory,disk...

Secure Virtual Development, Starring: RHEV for Desktops

Posted by Arthur Berezin | On: Jan 19 2011 | Comments (7)
It all began with (too) early (for me.. – 9:30am) phone call from my boss. My boss connected one of our business partners to the line with some questions in mind. The partner was about to enter a meeting with a CTO of...