As you may already know, OpenStack Mitaka has been recently released. It has been quite an eventful cycle, full of new features, increased performance and overall reliability improvements on our Windows and Hyper-V OpenStack drivers. In this blog post, we’d like to present some of the most meaningful changes and updates that come with…
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We’re very pleased to announce that starting with the Mitaka release we have introduced a new Openstack Nova Compute Driver, the Hyper-V Failover Cluster Driver, offering host based fault tolerance to tenants. The main advantage is that non high-available applications running in virtual machines can rely on the cluster for fault tolerance, a very common…
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There’s quite some documentation already available on how to run Windows Nano Server on Hyper-V or bare metal, but what about other hypervisors? Here at Cloudbase Solutions we often need to build images for different platforms, so why not automate the process in a simple way for all relevant scenarios, including, to begin with: bare metal,…
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Nano Server is a new installation option for Windows Server 2016, reducing the overall footprint to just a few hundreds MB of disk space. The resulting deployed OS is thus way faster to deploy and to boot, reducing drastically also the overall amount of updates and reboots required during daily management. In short, it’s an OS built for a cloud age and huge leap forward compared to traditional GUI based Windows deployments.
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Introducing the first fully Hyper-Converged Windows® server and OpenStack based cloud infrastructure that eliminates the need for expensive dedicated storage hardware, enabling distributed data across individual cloud servers. In this configuration all nodes have compute, storage and networking roles, increasing scalability and fault tolerance to new levels while drastically reducing the costs. Hyper-Converged…
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Nano Server is a Windows OS created for the cloud age. It has been announced by Microsoft this April and is going to be shipped with Windows Server 2016. What makes Nano Server special? A very small disk footprint compared to traditional Windows Server deployments (a few hundred MB instead of multiple GB). A very…
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