[131963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VM slicing and dicing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Tue Nov 9 11:46:30 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:45:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <485ED9BA02629E4BBBA53AC892EDA50E0BFD2E57@usmsxt104.mwd.h2o>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
no copper cables 10G and FC is all you need to deploy images. 8)
-g
On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Holmes,David A wrote:
> We've been looking at Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) blade
> server, which appears to have great potential. Very fast, and eliminates
> almost all top-of-rack copper cabling from servers to top-of-rack
> switch. Custom-built for VMWare optimization, but other virtualization
> OS's will run also from what I have read. Ten GiGE and FCoE are the
> entry points at the server access layer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim@brandontek.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:18 AM
> To: nanog group
> Subject: OT: VM slicing and dicing
>
>
> Hey gents:
>
> As always I value your input. Best resource on the planet! =3D)
> I'm hoping this isn't too off-topic if so please respond to me offline
> if so.
>
> I figured since most of everyone here are operators working in a
> datacenter, you may or may
> not have experience with virtualization software that allows you to
> configure VM's on the fly.
>
> I'm not looking for companies that offer this service, but the actual
> software engines that allow you
> to create VM's on the fly. So a customer goes to your website and says I
> want Win2008 with 8gigs of RAM and 120gigs of HDD.
> Just like custom configuring a new PC.
>
> Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of companies that offer
> this type of software engine?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
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