VMWare allows you to configure high availability for your virtual machines through vSphere. It means that your VMs will be restarted on alternate hosts if a failure is detected on one of your hosts. How HA Protection works – Master and Subordinate hosts HA protects against scenarios such as : host failures, host isolation and application crashes. …
What is PowerCLI ? PowerCLI is a Windows PowerShell interface for managing VMware vSphere. VMware describes PowerCLI as “a powerful command-line tool that lets you automate all aspects of vSphere management, including network, storage, VM, guest OS and more. PowerCLI is distributed as a Windows PowerShell snapin (PowerCLI 6.0 introduced PowerShell module), and includes over 500 PowerShell cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere and vCloud, …
Introduction Before starting a new articles serie on VMWare, let’s see together how virtualization works. As you probably know, it’s fairly an old technology but it’s still relevant to design a cloud computing solution and it’s important to understand how it works for obvious reasons. What is virtualization ? Virtualization refers to the act of creating a …
Introduction A vCloud Director extension called CSE (Container Service Extension) has been released March 2018 in order to manage the life cycle of Kubernetes clusters for tenants. This extension has to be installed on a vCloud Director Instance by the service provider. What can you do with CSE ? It allows your customers to rapidly …
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Introduction By definition, a Distributed system is not a Centralized system where state is stored on a single computer. Centralized Systems are simpler, easy to understand and can be faster for a single user. Distributed Systems state is divided over multiple computers. It is more robust, scalable but also more complex. Examples of Distributed Systems : Distributed Systems Advantages The main advantage …