Should we move from Ext4 Linux file system to Btrfs and XFS?

Should we move from Ext4 Linux file system to Btrfs and XFS?

Red Hat and SUSE gave up Ext file system last year and started using Btrfs and XFS. For this reason, many users are wondering whether they should follow the steps of the two main professional Linux distributions in the market and stop using Btrfs on their PC. It’s been verified that Btrfs has really good advanced features which improve storage’s management and security. Thus, it is suitable for system administrators. Meanwhile, XFS seems to be the perfect solution for virtualization, data base, app and cloud environments, where speed and scalability are needed.

Tips to manage multiple hypervisors at the same time II

Tips to manage multiple hypervisors at the same time II

In one of our articles last week we talked about the importance of using multi-hypervisor management tools and that the team responsible for managing multiple hypervisors at the same time has a specific and appropriate training. Today we analyze how the management and administration policies and the road map of the virtual infrastructure should be addressed.

To configure an environment with multiple hypervisors, it is recommended to do it as consistent as possible. In order to get a simple management, one shoul adopt, if possible, similar policies and configurations for all deployed hypervisors, so that administrators can move easily from an environment to another.

Tips to manage multiple hypervisors at the same time II

Tips to manage multiple hypervisors at the same time I

Nowadays, virtualization administrators are increasingly facing the challenge of managing an environment with multiple hypervisors. Factors such as mergers, acquisitions and changes in budgets have resulted in the migration to competing hypervisor platforms. The management of multi-hypervisor environments is not easy, but there are some strategies that can make it more simple. We sum them up below thanks to an interesting article by SearchServerVirtualization

Give free electronics for Christmas

Give free electronics for Christmas

Have you already bought all your Christmas gifts?

If you still need to buy some of them and you are evaluating the possibility of giving technology, we advise you to follow the recommendations of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and choose those products, software or subscriptions which do not have restrictions, give freedom to the user to share them and don’t force him to pay any license.

How to build a home-made NAS for vSphere

How to build a home-made NAS for vSphere

Today we bring over an interesting article written by Larry Smith in which he reports his experience building a home-made NAS for VMware’s vSphere hypervisor.

He had been using so far Nexenta 3.x but, as he had to move to 4.x, the possibility of running a GlusterFS cluster using the two NAS servers that he used for Nexenta was called into question. Learn all the details reading this article.

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