Some of the things we’ve learned while testing the KVM based virtualization solution in RHEL 5.4 on an 8-socket HP ProLiant server.
Some of the things we’ve learned while testing the KVM based virtualization solution in RHEL 5.4 on an 8-socket HP ProLiant server.
GFS2 file system can’t grow due to rindex not found” error with version 3.0.6 of gfs2-utils. Updated .rpm for Fedora 12 is linked.
A feeble(ish) attempt at documenting the ‘cache’ properties for the Kernel Virtual Machine when managed by libvirtd.
And yes, the environment was running real workloads (so not just a silly li’l httpd in each guest or any other ‘fake-out’ workloads to make the numbers seem good). We did execute a test where we tried to identify of how many total guests we could (be bothered to) create and run. These guests were…
With the release of Fedora 12, I’ve started playing with the upgrade process from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12. I’m not a big fan of having to do clean installs as it also means a lot of migration work in terms of configuration files, etc. All of which takes a lot of time and effort. And,…
MySQL changes it’s development cycles and (apparently) it’s release model, and the (twitter) world goes bananas!
I wound up with more work on my plate this week in order to get ready for a large conference this summer where I need to talk about scalability, performance and virtualization of large scale-up platforms.