As voting for Top vBlog 2015 opens, I’m approaching a very important anniversary. It also happens to have contributed to the reasons why I really started blogging in the last year. You can find the link for Top vBlog voting right here, and you can find me, vMiss (Melissa Palmer), in the general category, as …
Ok, I’m just going to throw it out there. This post is noting more than shameless self promotion for OpenStack Summit voting. I’ve teamed up with Eric Wright, one of my Virtual Design Master partners in crime, to bring you number of topics which have a few central themes, mainly a few facets of OpenStack …
I’m a big fan of something I like to call thought experiments, where I like to come up with quick designs which may or may not actually work in the real world. Sometimes I also like to make wild leaps when thinking about the current technologies being used in the data center, and their futures. …
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) has arrived in the slew of February 2, 2015 announcements from VMware. It was initially announced at VMworld 2014, and has been something I’ve been following closely. One of the key parts of the strategy for any OpenStack cloud is how the software itself will be consumed. Will your organization use …
In my last article at 24x7ITConnection, I talked a little bit about what docker is, and walked everyone through setting up Boot2docker on their platform of choice. At this point, I’m assuming you have it boot2Docker running, or a Linux machine running Docker. Now, let’s take it a step further, and look at how we …
Open vSwitch is open source virtual switch software. If you’re familiar with VMware, think of it as an open source Distributed Virtual Switch. It is supported on the KVM and XenServer platforms. The Open vSwitch team announced Open Virtual Network (OVN) on January 15, 2015. OVN is meant to be the next logical extension of …