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Conceptually this is super cool. Dell hardware running Eucalyptus-on-Ubuntu. Or at least it would be if it weren’t for Howard Shoobe telling me to stop buying Dell equipment.
I’m glad Ubuntu is really growing into a competitor for Redhat. Having spent the last few weeks fighting with a RHEV demo thats just pointlessly complicated they really need someone to put them into compete mode.
Bob did an awesome job putting together some of the details that take years to learn (the hard way) with vmware: Linux Virtual Machine Tuning Guide.
I could have sworn it was called RHEV a few weeks ago. Oh well, glad its out. $2000 for my four 96gb nehalem blades… super tempting.
High Scalability – High Scalability – A Yes for a NoSQL Taxonomy.
There’s so many “not mysql” options out there that I don’t understand the subtle differences between. This helps a lot.
via Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? – InternetNews.com.
tl;dr – qumranet built it using WPF, redhat’s re-writing it but wanted to get RHEV out the door before thats done.
I’ve seen redhat’s closed-source aquisitions go fairly terribly (gfs/clustersuite, netscape directory server) so I gotta admit I have low hopes for this.
On the plus side, the comments learned me about “proxmox-ve”, gonna look at that more later.