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…
In part 2 of this series about OpenStack on ARM64, we got to the point where our cloud is fully deployed with all the Compute (VMs), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) up and running. One additional component that we want to add is a Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), which…
In the previous blog post we created the ARM OpenStack Kolla container images and we can now proceed with deploying OpenStack. The host is a Lenovo server with an Ampere Computing eMAG 32 cores Armv8 64-bit CPU, running Ubuntu Server 20.04. For simplicity, this will be an “All-in-One” deployment, where all OpenStack components run on…
This is the beginning of a short series detailing how to deploy OpenStack on ARM64, using Docker containers with Kolla and Kolla-ansible. The objective of this first post is to create the ARM64 container images and push them to a remote registry in order to be used later on, when deploying our OpenStack cloud. We…
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…
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…
ARM servers are more and more present in our day to day life, their usage varying from minimal IoT devices to huge computing clusters. So we decided to put the Windows support for ARM64 cloud images to the test, with two primary focuses: Toolchain ecosystem – Building and running Cloudbase-Init on Windows ARM64 Virtualization –…