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Tag Archive 'Hypervisor'

Virtualisation 101

Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on Oct 30th, 2009

 

With Virtualisation becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualisation and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of a target processor completely in software. The main advantage being that you can emulate [...]

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SmartConnect Blades VM Ready

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on May 16th, 2009

SmartConnectTM software, running on the BLADE Ethernet switches, decouples server provisioning and network configuration tasks. Server capacity can be scaled by server administrators without requiring configuration of VLANs, spanning tree, routing protocols, or other network details via an intuitive drag-and-drop GUI interface. This allows server administrators the flexibility to reconfigure servers without involving network administrators. On [...]

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What is OVF ?

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009

We cover the Open Virtualisation format in the book, but if you want to get a more in-depth understanding of it I would recommend having a look at a blog post from SLA@SOI. It is technically very informative and goes into quite a bit of depth.

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New Sun VirtualBox Release Supports Open Virtualization Format And Virtual Appliances

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 16th, 2009

OVF is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that enables virtual machines or appliances to be imported and exported. Virtual appliances are one or more virtual machines that are pre-installed and configured so they can be shared, published and distributed. VirtualBox 2.2 software enables users to build virtual machines or appliances and effortlessly export [...]

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