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Microsoft announces their support and contribution to the OpenCompute project
On the brink of Open Compute Project Summit 2040 (OCP Summit V) starting tomorrow morning, Microsoft today announced the contribution of their cloud server designs to the Open Compute Project. Interestingly enough, Bill Laing was scheduled to present a keynote tomorrow at the summit. This was surprising to me as Microsoft has been traditionally quiet about elaboration […]
Tags: microsoft, OCP, Open Compute, opencompute
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Installing a active/passive MySQL database cluster for OpenStack Havana on RHEL 6.5
Since RHEL 6.5 does not ship with an Active/Active version of MySQL, you’re limited to using an Active/Passive configuration out of the box. There are other alternate methods, however; this is the supported configuration from RedHat. The requirements for creating an Active/Passive MySQL cluster are quite simple. You simply need shared storage. In this case, […]
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VMware vSAN on Open Compute
As we all know, the largest cost component of virtualization is typically shared storage. Be it Fibre Channel, NAS or iSCSI, it’s all expensive! Let alone a flash based array like Tinri or Whiptail. One of the use cases of our OCP (Open Compute Platform) Container (above) gear is to test VMware’s new vSAN product. With […]
Posted in Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, EMC, Knox Unit, MegaCLI, OCP, Open Compute, Open Stack, Open Vault, OpenCompute, Storage, View, Virtualization, vmware | 4 Comments »
Open Compute Windmill + Open Compute Open Vault hangs at booting from local disk fix
Working through installing CentOS 6.4, ESXi and others, I started running into issues where the systems would run their PXE installations just fine, then end up hanging at booting from local disk afterwards… As it turns out, the systems we’re having issues trying to boot to /dev/sda when /dev/sda was not always where the OS […]
Tags: Knox Unit, OCP, Open Compute, Open Vault
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