Clustering News & Support Resources

August 22, 2017

Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of the fastest-growing areas in IT, and VMware vSAN is the fastest-growing solution in HCI. With an 8000+ customer base that’s expanding every day like wildfire, there is a tremendous appetite for knowledge learning by IT professionals in the customer, partner, sales and service communities. It is with great […]

VMware vSAN Operations Guide Video: Converting a Hybrid to All-Flash vSAN Cluster

August 18, 2017

VMware

This video demonstrates the process for converting a hybrid to an all-flash vSAN cluster. This video is from the fine folks at VMware Storage.

Save 90% on Your Containerized Workloads – #AWS Online Tech Talks Video

August 16, 2017

Amazon Web Services

Containers lend themselves to flexible and portable application deployments, and when used with the Amazon EC2 Container Service (or other schedulers), provide a simple and effective way to manage fleets of instances and containers at scale. Amazon EC2 Spot instances allow you to utilize spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity for a fraction of the cost. […]

Fast Virtualized Hadoop And Spark On All-Flash Disks – VMware White Paper

August 16, 2017

VMware

Best Practices for Optimizing Virtualized Big Data Applications on VMware vSphere 6.5 Best practices are described for optimizing Big Data applications running on VMware vSphere®. Hardware, software, and vSphere configuration parameters are documented, as well as tuning parameters for the operating system, Hadoop, and Spark. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers used in […]

Microsoft: Stretched Hyper-V Cluster on Azure using Express Route

August 11, 2017

Microsoft

Traditionally, in an on-premises environment we setup stretch clusters across regions to protect against region failure. Microsoft came up with Azure Site Recovery to give users the the capability to move their workloads into Azure during a site or workload down situation. In this article, we are going to talk about an alternate approach to […]

Red Hat Enhances Cloud-Native Security, Application Consistency with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

August 10, 2017

Red Hat

Enterprise Kubernetes platform adds new container security and compliance features, extends consistent applications and services across multi-cloud deployments Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6, the latest version of Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform. Organizations […]

Google Cloud Platform Blog: Demystifying container vs VM-based security: Security in plaintext

August 10, 2017

Google Cloud

Modularized applications (monolithic applications vs. microservices) Lower release overhead (convenient packaging format and well defined CI/CD practices) Shorter lifetimes, less risk to have outdated packages (months to years vs. days to hours) Less drift from original state during runtime (less direct access for maintenance, since workload is short-lived and can easily be rebuilt and re-pushed) […]

New VMware KB articles published for week ending 5th July 2017

August 10, 2017

VMware

VMware vCenter Server 2400 second timeout error during VM deployment while Storage DRS is enabled Date Published: 2017/08/02 EAM fails to complete VIB operation due to failed VIB payload publish Date Published: 2017/07/31 OVF deployment fails after upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 U1 Date Published: 2017/08/01 vpxd service fails with error: duplicate key value […]

VMware and AWS Together – VMware Cloud on AWS – #AWS Video

August 9, 2017

Amazon Web Services

VMware CloudTM on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to Amazon’s public cloud, delivered as an on-demand, elastically scalable, cloud-based VMware sold, operated and supported service for any application and optimized for next-generation, elastic, bare metal AWS infrastructure. This solution enables customers to use a common set of software and tools to […]

Microsoft: Using Microsoft R Server Operationalization on HDInsight

August 8, 2017

Microsoft

R Server on HDInsight cluster allows R scripts to use Spark and MapReduce to run distributed computations. You can develop a model and operationalize the model to make predictions by configuring Edge Node as One-Box. We have One-Click Deploy ARM Templates using which you can create R Server on HDInsight Cluster with EdgeNode configured as […]

Microsoft: Container monitoring solution in Red Hat OpenShift

August 7, 2017

Microsoft

Since we announced our partnership with Red Hat, we’ve seen a growing interest in the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio in Azure. This is particularly true regarding rich support and capabilities for container monitoring within OpenShift. Over the last few months, we’ve added support for rich container monitoring for OpenShift across any public or private cloud, […]

Deploy the AWS Cloud Infrastructure for SAS Grid with New Quick Start

August 7, 2017

Amazon Web Services

This Quick Start is for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to implement or extend their SAS workloads on the AWS Cloud. SAS Grid is a shared, centrally managed analytics computing environment that features workload balancing and management, high availability, and fast processing. A SAS Grid environment helps you incrementally scale […]