Following Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware, the level of uncertainty within the private virtualized infrastructure space has reached an all-time high. With many companies now put on the spot by unexpected increases to platform procurement and upgrade costs, the need for an Open Source and feature-equivalent alternative to VMware has never been greater. In this…
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AmpereComputing were kind enough to send us at our Cloudbase Solutions office the new version of their top-tier server product, which incorporates their latest Ampere ALTRA ARM64 Processor. The server version has a beefy dual-socket AMPERE ALTRA setup, with 24 NVME slots and up to 8 TB installable RAM, spread over 8 channels. Let the…
DetailsMake sure to check out the previous blog post introducing Ceph on Windows, in case you’ve missed it. We are now going to look at how the performance looks like. Before this Ceph Windows porting, the only way to access Ceph storage from Windows was by using the Ceph iSCSI gateway, which can easily become…
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The wait is over, Ceph 16 (Pacific) provides Windows native support as a result of the Cloudbase Solutions and Suse partnership. Ceph is probably the most commonly used software defined storage solution out there. For example, according to surveys, more than 70% of the OpenStack deployments are powered by Ceph. That’s no wonder, considering that…
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Introduction Python is an interpreted programming language that is used in multiple fields, ranging from education, scientific purposes to DevOps and cloud infrastructure. According to http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html, Python is ranked first in Google’s search popularity. This post is meant to snapshot the current state of the art of the Python ecosystem on Windows ARM64, focusing on…
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In this post we will focus on the state of virtualization for Windows Hyper-V on ARM64, checking if we can run Windows and Linux virtual machines. This is the second part of the ‘State of Windows on ARM64’ series. Click here for the first part. The test lab consists of 3 Ampere Computing EMAG servers…
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