Is a very tired week for me since I had traveled 3 different locations within 2 weeks time for business purposes. This morning, while I woke up and checked my email, I realized John Troyer from VMware, who is the MAN that organize the vExpert 2009 and 2010 nomination had dropped me an email about the vExpert 2010. I am very happy to receive the email from VMware again. I would like to thanks VMware for the vExpert 2010, and also thank you to the people around me which provided all the opportunity during my career which allowed me to blog most of the finding for knowledge sharing purposes. I will definitely continue blog about virtualization, data center solution, cloud computing solutions, and reply more questions in VMTN or VMUG from time to time.
Today, 10 G Ethernet consider as common technology at least to the enterprise customer. Many of us are looking into 10G Ethernet from server to switch via L2 or L3 networking perspective. The main reason behind this are due to the Virtualization and Cloud Computing technology driven. Few years ago when we came out the design with multiple gigabits NICs on the ESX host to support NIC teaming, load balancing and etc, which may end up deliver around 14 Gbps of network bandwidth and 8Gbps of FC bandwidth per host. Each ESX host are consolidate 20 to 30 virtual machines. At that time, this may be the best option we could had done due to technology limitation. Is this design GOOD enough? I will say yes for previously, and NO for today technology availability.
Photo shot of the real environment which have 14 gigabits NIC Ports and 4 x 2 Gbps FC.
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With Windows 7 slowly getting more acceptance, many of us want to get a hand on it. As a geek myself we often too excited & quickly upgrade from the faithful XP after years of surviving guide without considering whether some of our loyal application can run on Windows 7?
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With the current new buzz word in town every IT vendor from network switches, storage, server, software & the list go on and on …….is talking about “Cloud”. It is getting very “cloudy” to me & it seems going to rain. I just wonder how many of our local ISV know about it & getting their piece of software to ready for cloud. What about our SME & Enterprise? In January 15, 2010 Gartner conducted a survey
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Intel had officially announced the new product series of Intel 6 cores base on 5600 series which will be the successors of Intel Nahelemn 5500 family. The new product series code name Westmere. We will be getting more and more powerful processors in the 2 way servers today which will be good for virtualization and consolidation project. The market are expecting the server vendor like Cisco, DELL, IBM, HP, Fujitsu and etc will launch the server model which support Intel 5600 series very soon. The new Intel 5600 are fully compatible with the existing Intel 5500 sockets from the hardware perspective according to the reliable news. Please view the full story from here.
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