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.

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.

There’s so many “not mysql” options out there that I don’t understand the subtle differences between.  This helps a lot.

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.

woah

Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server .

Slightly more technical info here:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TrafficServerProposal

It looks like they built some sort of homegrown haproxy/perlbal kind of thing and are gonna let the rest of us have a go at it.  Could be really cool.

Making applications scalable with Load Balancing.

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? .

Ironically, as much as I agree with that sentiment, I recently rolled out a bunch of stuff in mostly raid5 configs because I needed the space, my array has a good sized write cache, and the heaviest write stuff got put on SSD.  Also, it was an upgrade from raid1 on 7.2k sata to raid5 on 10k fc, so it was plenty of improvement already.