Tag Archive - virtualization

Gryphon is live. Long live to myths.

January 17, 2011 in , , , , , , with 77 Comments

Les Laboratoires Phoenix is pushing a new cluster – MYTH – in production. Normally, this isn’t really worthy of a blog post – nobody really care how many systems I deploy for clients – but since this isn’t for a specific client, it get a bit more interesting:

“Phase 1″ capacity of this multi-tenants (fully redundant) cluster is of 7.18 GHZ, 16GB Ram, 1TB. Phase 2 (next 2 weeks) will see it grow to 21.54ghz, 48gb rams and 10TB. End of February is the target date for the phase 3: 2x on each of those numbers. Everything in this cluster is already redundant – but getting bigger number is always fun.

Tonight, 3 systems get integrated (virtualized). It represent economy of about 600$/month for this client. He won’t need his half rack + bandwidth + power…

blog.pacharest.com->cloudweaver.org

June 25, 2010 in , , , , , , with 108 Comments

Business open as usual

photo: Business open as usual, by Pascal Charest

Re-launch of blog.pacharest.com under a new name (cloudweaver.org) & new url. Lots of reasons. Main one? I wanted it to be so – but also :
– because I have contractual engagement that the change of domain name will help to clear up.
– because I want to focus on network infrastructure (mainly dynamic and virtualized ones) from now on.
– because I wanted to integrate twitter somewhere on my blog (now directly in my feed/post page).

good stuff to come

November 4, 2008 in , , , , , , , with Comments Off

Stuff moving pretty fast:

In the next few days, Laboratoires Phoenix (my corp.) will be unveiling new services to the current holder of premium account – those are normally people with whom I already have a business relationship. We are speaking of computer-based monitoring from locations around the world, human-based monitoring and generic maintenance.

Since I already have a very decent job (“CloudMaster @ PraizedMedia” / Operation specialist), the income generated by Laboratoire Phoenix are reinvested in infrastructure to help Canadian start-up. There is already quite a few people that have shown interest. If you have an interesting project feel free to reach me on pascal.charest@gmail.com ; If I’m interested and have free time I can contribute servers, bandwidth and even do some free-of-charge consulting. My network of contact can also be of use.

Since I’m speaking about myself (;-)) : I have also been asked to draft/compose a 8-10 pages articles on “initiation au cloud computing” to be published at 25k+ printed version in Europe. On the same subject, I’ve been selected to contribute a chapter to an upcoming guide @ O’Reilly. Life could be harder ;-) – but this is meant as an early “warning” – if anyone is interested in developing a career as technical writer, feel free to get in touch with me. Author can easily become co-author ;-).

Virtualization

August 12, 2008 in , , , , with 46 Comments

Got contacted by a Citrix (XEN) representant today… they finally did their homework and do some follow-up on sales/potential customer.

This is well planned because VMWare is having some very big problems and their solution really suck. Summary, if you have this specific version [ESX 3.5 Update 2 ISO], you should really not shut-down your VM.

Whitepaper on cloud computing

August 5, 2008 in , , , with 121 Comments

While researching for an upcoming article I’m writing, I stumbled on this cloud architectures white paper from Jinesh Varia, technological evangelist @ Amazon web services (AWS).

This is an interesting document and peoples interested in presenting a valid use-case to management for the deployment of applications over a cloud should really like it.

This bring me to the big question of why Quebec isn’t a leader in this virtualization/on-demand computing industry. Always though that having a very low electricity cost was an incentive to invest in big data center and then try to automatize everything. This would have led to the really interesting technology that is virtualization (cutting provision time by a very big margin) -

Maybe this low cost electricity is exactly what made international concurrents more interested in saving cpu cycle…

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