It’s that time again. Here are some of the interesting happenings of the past week:
- EVC Mode – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212
- Virtualization Practice (@texiwill) on what OpenStack is not: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/openstack-what-it-is-not-15670/
- How Rackspace used Continuous Delivery to rebuild the cloud: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-rackspace-re-wrote-the-cloud-with-openstack-continuous-delivery/
- VCAP5-DCA Training – http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2012/04/vsphere-5-training-that-will-help.html
- Sean Crookston & Harley Stagner’s new book: http://www.seancrookston.com/2012/04/17/new-book-optimizing-vsphere-deployments/
- vCloud Networking explained – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2024-vCloud-networking-explained-in-1-slide-and-52-animations.html
- VMware wants to be the VMware of networking: http://gigaom.com/cloud/vmware-isnt-going-to-let-network-virtualization-pass-it-by/
- Microsoft’s take on VMware converter: http://virtualization.info/en/news/2012/04/microsoft-releases-beta-of-virtual-machine-converter-tool.html
- DR / HA Whitepapers: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2012/04/a-couple-solid-tech-docs-around-funky-drha-configs.html
- Storage DRS is more than IO balancing: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/04/storage-drs-more-than-io-load-balancing-only.html
- vSphere 5 Memory Management – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2017642
- Hadoop & Big Data on vSphere – http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2012/03/vroom-videos-talks-about-hadoop-and-big-data.html
- More VMware being the VMware of networking: http://it20.info/2012/04/vmware-wants-to-be-the-vmware-of-networking/
- Clarifying NFS on vSphere http://wahlnetwork.com/2012/04/19/nfs-on-vsphere-a-few-misconceptions/
- More vSphere 5 memory management: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/mem_mgmt_perf_vsphere5.pdf
- Some stuff here about modular DCs:
- http://gigaom.com/cloud/making-the-web-more-efficient-a-thousand-servers-at-a-time/
- http://www.thegreengrid.org/en/Global/Content/white-papers/WP45-CaseStudyBreakingNewGroundonDataCenterEfficiency
- http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/28/amazons-cloud-goes-modular-in-oregon/
- http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/04/04/u-s-army-to-deploys-clouds-modular-data-centers/
- http://datacenterpulse.org/rfp/modular/quicksilver
- http://bartongeorge.net/2012/03/26/idc-starts-tracking-the-hyperscale-server-market/
- Windows 2008 R2 configuring NTP: http://www.sysadminlab.net/windows/configuring-ntp-on-windows-2008-r2
- Configure Max Outstanding Disk Requests: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1268
- Controlling LUN Queue depth: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008113