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Xen and Multiple Networks
Last Friday I asked a question about how to set up a network in Xen with a machine attached between a public and private network, like you might use in a firewall or load balancing situation. I want to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 14, 2008 10:55 AM
Xen, VLANs, and Load Balancing
I want to create a setup on XEN that has one or more machines load balancing for a number of other machines on a private network. This diagram shows roughly what I'm thinking: The idea is that some machines... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 11, 2008 2:01 PM
Enomalism and Xen
I'm looking for a management console for Xen (besides the command line). I'd looked into this months and months ago and concluded that when the time came, I'd try Enomalism, but after some initial experiments I'm no longer sure.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 13, 2007 7:14 AM
Lamont Peterson on XEN and Virtualization
Lamont Peterson, co-founder of NeverBlock is talking about XEN and virtualization. The talk is an intro to virtualization technology and a discussion of why use virtualization. Here are some pros: Resource consolidation: fewer systems to buy, own, manage, power,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 7, 2007 12:20 PM
AWS and Your Data Center: ETech 2007
Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, is talking about their Web services--specifically the outsourced data center products (S3, EC2, and SQS) that I've written about before and that were the subject of an IT Conversations interview I did with Doug Kaye... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 11:20 AM
Virtual Appliances
I spent a little time today playing around with a virtual appliance (VA) from VirtualAppliances.net. They have LAMP, Tomcat, Cacti, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and HTTTP server virtual appliances that you can download and run inside a variety of virtualization environments,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 10, 2007 12:05 PM
Routing Around VMWare
Today Terry Wilcox, my grad students working on virtualization informed me that he had Xen installed and working on our virtualization testbed (two dell 6650's with 4 CPUs and 16Gb of RAM). Working means that he can transfer running... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2007 12:47 PM
Trusting Steve Gillmor
One of my favorite shows on IT Conversations was the Gillmor Gang. I say "was" because Steve's show hasn't been on IT Conversations for quite some time. That doesn't mean it's dead, however...The Gillmor Gang lives on at Podshow.com.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 25, 2006 8:43 PM
No Hablo Espanol
Earlier this month Utah launched, with little fanfare, www.espanol.utah.gov, a Spanish-language companion to the state's Web site at www.utah.gov. The site contained 10 pages of information about taxes, health care, and so on in Spanish. A few days ago... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2006 9:55 AM
Virtualization Testbed
Suppose you had a couple of quad processor boxes with 16Gb of RAM each attached to a 1Tb SAN and enough VMWare ESX licenses to do whatever you wanted on the platform. What would you do? We're wrapping up... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2006 3:14 PM
Virtualize Everything
I had a good visit to IBM's Executive Briefing Center in Raleigh yesterday. I was there to learn about data centers, power, blades and virtualization. I've put some of my notes on data center power requirements at Between the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 8, 2005 11:28 AM
First Day of School
Classes start today at BYU. I actually teach on Tuesday and Thursday, so I've got another day yet. I'm teaching a class on programming language design (using Scheme) and large scale distributed system design. I've changed the text for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 29, 2005 8:19 AM
Sustainability is a Mirage
I was listening to Moira Gunn interview Mary O'Hara-Devereaux about her book Navigating the Badlands : Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation. The "badlands" are, in O'Hara-Devereaux's analogy, the rough times of transition in the world's history. She... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2005 9:34 PM
Xen 2.0 Released
The Computer Laboratory at Cambridge just announced the release of Xen 2.0, a virtualization monitor. There's a page on performance and benchmarking. Xen has also been profiled by a group at Clarkson University in a paper entitled Xen and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2004 9:20 AM
Hilbert No. 16 Partially Solved
In 1900, Professor David Hilbert gave a talk entitled "The Future of Mathematics" before the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris (See Bulliten of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 8, 1902). In his talk Hilbert listed 23 problems... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 28, 2003 10:34 AM
Darl McBride: Linux Won't Remain Free
The evening keynote at CDXPO is by Darl McBride. On the way in they handed out a pamphlet from WIPO entitled "Intellectual Property: A Power Tool for Economic Growth." I'm not sure who decided to hand it out, but... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 18, 2003 7:21 PM
WarblogsWarblogging
We're talking, via phone, to Stu Hughes of the BBC from the UK. He created a blog before he left for Iraq as a way for him to communicate his experience with friends and family. He was in a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 24, 2003 3:26 PM