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Introduction of VMware vSphere 5.0 and vCloud Director 1.5
August 21st, 2011
Posted in cloud hosting
The release of cloud infrastructure suite includes a combination of vSphere 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5, vShield 5, vCloud Director 1.5, and the new vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0. This combination has been joined by vCenter operations. In order to enable the enterprises and service providers to build cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, a software solution called VMware vCloud™ Director can be put into use. It allows the end users to fulfill their demand and even the IT sector is provided with the required efficiency. It provides an option to bridge to an ecosystem with over and above 3000 service providers and also possess the ability to run an efficient cloud securely within a given data center. With the help of VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) and VMware vCloud Director 1.5, cost effective and secure clouds can be built so that the organization of service providers can support different businesses by increasing IT efficiency and enhancing security. A pragmatic path is provided to the customers with the usage of cloud computing which enables them to leverage existing investments and the flexibility to extend capacity among clouds.
The use of third party distributed virtual switches is supported by the VMware vCloud Director 1.0 so that it can enable portgroup-based network pools. But with the usage of VMware vCloud Director 1.5, VLAN-base can be created programmatically. In the performance of virtualization, release of vSphere 5 acts as an important milestone. Its applications are very demanding among the users because it offers 32 vCPUs, 1TB of virtual RAM, and very substantial storage and networking speeds. To help your cloud with extreme elasticity needs and tight performance that too without manual intervention, some new innovations has been done which includes Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS capabilities. This release will surely help the customers to create their clouds in a simpler and more efficient manner. It also reduces the time which is required to get them started and it also make sure that customers must have seamless experience once the software is up and running. With the updated cloud infrastructure suite, VMware vSphere 5 can be expected to be available in Q3. This article will enable you to get an overview on what is VMware vSphere 5.0 and vCloud Director 1.5 and how is it beneficial?
Release of Fuscan Linux Cloud 2.0
August 16th, 2011
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HostingCon 2011 was the world’s premier hosting conference during which a new version 2.0 of Fuscan Linux Cloud has been launched. It took place in San Diego, California between August 8 and August 10, 2011. A few significant changes have been announced in Fuscan version 2.0 in comparison to previous versions. GFS was used in the version 1.0 Fuscan but it has been replaced in version 2.0. Instead GlusterFS is being used currently as a mainstream file system. GlusterFS is the software which has been licensed under GNU AGPL v3 license. The performance of Fuscan Linux Cloud can be improved with this software and add more flexibility to it. The development team of Fuscan Linux Cloud has replaced the RG Manager i.e. Red Hat resource manager with pacemaker as it has been considered to be more flexible and feature rich. With the help of pacemaker, users are allowed to configure specific scenarios so that services can run properly in a certain time frame.
Benefits of Fuscan Linux Cloud 2.0:-
- It provides improved level of management interface.
- On the license of fuscan Linux cloud, a discount of 50% is allowed by SingleOS.
- It includes a new resource manager.
- It provides software level redundancy, and hardware level redundancy.
Therefore we can conclude that Fuscan Linux Cloud can be easily scalable and it enables the hosting providers to create their own infrastructure of cloud. In a load-balanced cluster environment, cPanel/WHM Cloud hosting services is provided in order to cut operational costs and to optimize server management. A special feature of automation layer is also provided i.e. Fuscan EHA which is nothing but a high availability system for cPanel/WHM. In case providers of web hosting solution wants to enjoy the advantage of the discounted licenses then they are allowed to sign up from Order page at SingleOS Accounts. This is basically done to cut the list price of the Fuscan licenses. Today we can proudly say that the company which is behind the Cloud software automation solution is SingleOS and because of its creativity and innovations has always come up with new versions with dynamic improvements.
Private cloud now simple and power packed with a cloud in a box
August 8th, 2011
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With the help of cloud computing, companies usually try to resolve certain common problems related with traditional IT. When we think of traditional IT, we come across the fact that it is complex with respect to management and procurement. It might take a long period of time to market a product because traditional IT is slow. With regards to project turn-around time, power, cooling and the plethora of hardware devices, it is very expensive as it needs to remain operational throughout. A cloud in a box is a solution with respect to cloud computing market which helps to simplify the rapid deployment of a private cloud and reduced management. This is how it saves cost in all aspects and also improves its efficiency.
A true cloud in a Box solution is offered by ScaleMatrix in order to bring all the benefits of Private Cloud in a package which is easy to manage and very quick to deploy. For the purpose of delivering the performance and stability which is expected by almost every industry, ScaleMatrix include certain components such as CA AppLogic, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Brocade Switches, FireTrace Fire Suppression and even a ScaleMatrix Self Contained Rack. Now we will discuss each of the components individually:-
- You can easily deploy, and manage cloud applications and supporting infrastructure with the help of CA Applogic which is nothing but a turnkey cloud computing platform. There are applications for which they have pre configured AppLogic templates such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010, Server 2003 and 2008, SQL Server and many more.
- The ScaleMatrix self-contained rack holds up to 40 servers which is a self-cooled unit. This unit can be utilized as your entire business infrastructure.
- For computing intense applications, Dell PowerEdge R410 rack servers provide you with a powerful two-socket 1U platform.
- Enterprise class stackable L2/L3 edge switching is offered by Brocade FCX-624/648 gigabit switches.
- For high value or critical machinery, cabinet and machine level fire protection is provided by FireTrace Fire Suppression.
It has three different configurations which might range from a dual-socket quad core server with 1TB of hard drive and 16 GB of RAM up to a dual-socket hex-core server with 2x2TB hard drive and 64GB of RAM. This amazing product i.e. ScaleMatrix Cloud in a Box™ solution permits you to Streamline Time to Market, reduce complexity and Maximize Margins across your enterprise.
Introduction to new version of ElasticStack based cloud
August 8th, 2011
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Since the year 2009, ElasticStack which is the cloud platform provider in UK has been enjoying a grand success across the world for deploying public and private cloud platforms that too for a number of key customers. It has announced a wide range of dynamic features to its cloud platform so that business can be easily build and quickly deploy a scalable, resilient, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure from low cost commodity hardware.
There are some other benefits which have been updated such as reduction of hardware cost by eliminating SAN and in order to deploy and manage cloud servers easily and faster, a new ‘Ajax’ user interface has been included. You will be able to run both the storage infrastructure and compute infrastructure on a single set of commodity hardware. It can only be possible with VMs which allows moving freely between the nodes. You can continue running your cloud even if any node goes down as the entire content gets replicated elsewhere. Cost computing is the new release which has some outstanding features like easy to use, cost efficient, resilient, flexible, on demand and at the same time lowers the cost for both the service providers and enterprises with highly resilient clouds. This new release makes use of distributed block storage technology i.e. network RAID which helps to improve the performance and redundancy.
This organization traditionally uses SANs so that it can provide resilient shared storage for their clouds so that VMs can move in between the compute nodes. It also helps to know that their storage was resilient to the failure of hardware. In addition to aforesaid features, it has also developed a new control panel which helps to manage and create the cloud servers faster and easily. This control panel is easier for any user to understand and it’s also very responsive. The organization has brought all the resilient features of a SAN to its cloud that too without making any extra investment in expensive storage hardware. Therefore, we can say that all these new additional features have been designed to make your businesses more efficient both economically and operationally.
Introduction to New Version of ElasticStack Based Cloud
August 1st, 2011
Posted in cloud hosting
Since the year 2009, ElasticStack which is the cloud platform provider in UK has been enjoying a grand success across the world for deploying public and private cloud platforms that too for a number of key customers. It has announced a wide range of dynamic features to its cloud platform so that business can be easily build and quickly deploy a scalable, resilient, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure from low cost commodity hardware.
There are some other benefits which have been updated such as reduction of hardware cost by eliminating SAN and in order to deploy and manage cloud servers easily and faster, a new ‘Ajax’ user interface has been included. You will be able to run both the storage infrastructure and compute infrastructure on a single set of commodity hardware. It can only be possible with VMs which allows moving freely between the nodes. You can continue running your cloud even if any node goes down as the entire content gets replicated elsewhere. Cost computing is the new release which has some outstanding features like easy to use, cost efficient, resilient, flexible, on demand and at the same time lowers the cost for both the service providers and enterprises with highly resilient clouds. This new release makes use of distributed block storage technology i.e. network RAID which helps to improve the performance and redundancy.
This organization traditionally uses SANs so that it can provide resilient shared storage for their clouds so that VMs can move in between the compute nodes. It also helps to know that their storage was resilient to the failure of hardware. In addition to aforesaid features, it has also developed a new control panel which helps to manage and create the cloud servers faster and easily. This control panel is easier for any user to understand and it’s also very responsive. The organization has brought all the resilient features of a SAN to its cloud that too without making any extra investment in expensive storage hardware. Therefore, we can say that all these new additional features have been designed to make your businesses more efficient both economically and operationally.
VMWare VSphere 5 – Cloud Infrastructure Made Easy
July 19th, 2011
Posted in cloud hosting
The latest version in vSphere hypervisor is vSphere 5 which has been released along with a host of additional technologies that can aid in building “infrastructure clouds”. Vmware added more power to this virtualization platform by unveiling a virtual appliance tailored for small-to-midsize businesses. This new release is all set to provide better application performance and availability for all business-critical applications while automating the management of an increasingly broad pool of datacenter resources.
SUPER NEW FEATURES
Vsphere 5 comes with nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities and thus has given stiff competition to Vmware’s lead rivals Citrix, Microsoft, and Red Hat. The most striking features of this new release is it has a cloud friendly licensing scheme, smarter than ever management tools and support for virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four times more powerful than previous versions with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPU. These virtual machines can process in excess of 1 million I/O operations per second and hence are more than sufficient for even the most resource intensive applications.
FLAGSHIP FEATURES:
The task of virtualizing any business-critical applications would be easy as ABC. There has been significant enhancements in the platform’s unique datacenter resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated approach towards managing the datacenter resources. Users would only have to formulate the policies and define the parameters and Vsphere 5 can take care of the rest. The new Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS features can actually save up to a full year of administrator time for a user with a 1,000-VM environment.
CLOUD FRIENDLY FEATURES:
The VMware vSphere® 5 and the cloud infrastructure suite brings forth an expansive package of technologies that are capable of providing the automation, self-service and security capabilities users are looking for. The VMware Vshield 5 has an adaptive, software-based security model designed for virtual and cloud environments and thus takes care of security, control and compliance issues. The VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 will actually allow users to get double number of protected applications for the same cost while supporting heterogeneous storage configurations in the primary and backup sites. The VMware vCloud Director 1.5 will substantially help in cutting the time needed for provisioning new servers.
It seems so far that the SMBs have been most benefitted from VSphere 5 release and the most number of customers for VMware have emerged from this segment. VMware has indeed come up with all-in-one solutions for SMBs of all sizes. Going by what is currently available in the market, VMware delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of virtualization and cloud computing offerings for businesses of all sizes. Their diverse range of products aimed at giving the best virtualization platform experience include VMware vSphere Kits for SMBs, VMware Go, VMware Go Pro and VMware vSphere Hypervisor .