Make 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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We’ve added support for RemoteFX for Windows / Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 back in Kilo, but the highly anticipated Windows / Hyper-V Server 2016 comes with some new nifty features for which we’re excited about! In case you are not familiar with this feature, it allows you to virtualize your GPUs and share them across…
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Windows Server 2016 is gaining significant traction in OpenStack and other clouds, thanks to the support for Windows Docker containers and lots of other new features. While there’s no OpenStack Windows Server 2016 image directly available for download, the good news is that our automated build scripts will do all the work for you. All you need is a…
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OpenStack is a great technology, but it can be a bit cumbersome to deploy and manage without the proper tools. One easy solution to address this issue is to deploy OpenStack services using pre-built Docker containers. Kolla is a set of deployment tools for OpenStack, consisting in the Kolla project itself, for generating OpenStack Docker images, and…
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Both Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation / Fusion use the popular VMDK virtual disk format, optionally as part of an OVA package. Here’s a quick HOWTO on converting VMDK disks to the VHD or VHDX formats for Hyper-V or Azure To begin with, if you have a file with the OVA extension (e.g. exported from VirtualBox), this is just…
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