After a few exciting weeks at work, I picked up Belenix work again today. I decided to give Ruby 1.9.3-p0 a try, since this is the latest stable ( Read more... )

I'd earlier posted about how and why we selected an Oracle ZFS Storage SAN - the 7320. Read Part 1 and Part 2 for more context ( Read more... )

One company that I'm going to keep an eye out on is Pluribus Networks . They have the byline "Virtualization without Limits". Sunay Tripathi , one of the founders, is also of the driving forces behind the Solaris 10 TCP stack rewrite, and Crossbow, the network virtualization in the opensolaris kernel (and part of the upcoming Solaris 11Sunay ( Read more... )

During the past few weeks, I've been working a bit on Belenix as and when my illness permits ( Read more... )

Given that the various high end SAN vendors all receive good reviews for their performance, let's see what some of these performance criteria are ( Read more... )

At Thoughtworks, we use virtualization extensively, since a little before "cloud" became a buzzword. Until a few years ago, our platform of choice for Virtualization was VMWare. Since then, we also started to use Xen and KVM. We're yet to investigate HyperV in production use. As a software development company, we use VMWare in standalone mode, ( Read more... )

Until a few months ago, the Belenix team had stopped all work on Belenix. We've been having a very good time at our respective day jobs, and that's been a very good trip so far ( Read more... )

Some of the amazing team at Joyent ported KVM onto the Illumos kernel ( Read more... )

"But I didn't complete my training!!", yelled the apprentice charged with the most enormous task.

"Neither did I", replied the dying master...

We all have it in us to do awesome stuff. We need to stop thinking about why we can't achieve something, and instead focus our energies on thinking about how we can.

Alright, I've had it with IPS.

An uninstall of cvs took eight minutes.

This was the last straw, and it's time to move to rpm5 completely.