Category: Data Center

A data center (American) or data centre (British) is a building.

Dedicated space within a building or a group of buildings used to house computer systems.

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Database / Reviews

Vector Databases: Use Cases and Best Practices in VMware vSphere Environments

Vector databases can provide special advantages to businesses that have already made investments in virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere. The centralized management, scalability, and flexibility of VMware vSphere make it the perfect platform for vector database hosting. We’ll go into great detail about vector databases in this post, look at some of their most important applications, and offer best practices for maximizing vector database performance in VMware vSphere settings.

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Data Center / Database / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Comprehensive Guide to Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache: Benefits, Challenges, and Configurations in vSphere, Virtualization, and Physical Environments

In today’s data-driven world, databases are essential for managing the enormous amounts of information generated by businesses. Oracle Database is a leading relational database management system (RDBMS) widely used in various industries. As data grows, so do the demands for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This is where Oracle Database Smart Flash Cache comes into play.

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Data Center / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

Static Binding vs Ephemeral Binding: Understanding the Network Bindings in VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

Networking is a key component of enterprise virtualization, and as data centers grow, it is imperative to manage network resources effectively and flexibly. VMware’s vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) is a potent tool that allows for centralized management of networking configuration across ESXi hosts, and one of its key features is its management of network port bindings. There are two main types of bindings that are available with VDS: static and ephemeral. Virtualization administrators that want to optimize their environments must grasp the distinctions, benefits, and trade-offs between static and ephemeral port binding.

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Data Center / Data Storage

Ceph Use Cases in vSphere: Best Practices, Challenges, and Comparison with vSAN

VMware vSphere is one of the main virtualization platforms used today. Despite the close integration of VMware’s proprietary Virtual SAN (vSAN) into the vSphere ecosystem, a growing number of enterprises are choosing open-source storage technologies such as Ceph. The choice to incorporate Ceph into a vSphere system requires knowledge of the architecture’s drawbacks as well as its advantages, use cases, and best practices.

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How To / Operating System

Linux Update Best Practices: Focusing on Ubuntu and Oracle Linux

It’s essential to maintain and your Linux systems for dependability, performance, and security. The hazards, factors to be aware of, kernel updates, rollback methods (including those without backups), and the most recent developments in kernel live patching will all be covered in this blog article on best practices for Linux update and focusing on updating Ubuntu and Oracle Linux.

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Automation / Data Center / Operating System / Reviews

Oracle Linux Automation Manager: Supercharge Your IT with Intelligent Automation

Spreading infrastructure and constantly shifting needs in today’s IT environment may easily convert system administration into a wild beast. Manual setups become laborious and prone to errors, which impedes creativity and agility. This is where automation becomes useful, providing your IT environment with a potent tool to tame the beast and restore order.

Let me introduce you to Oracle Linux Automation Manager (OLAM), a powerful tool that makes infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment procedures much easier. Based on the open-source giants Ansible and AWX, OLAM provides a centralized web interface for effective management and visibility into your IT environment.

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Data Center / Reviews / Server Virtualization / Virtualization

A Deep Dive into VMware vSphere vMotion Application Notification: Keeping Applications in the Loop

Ensuring application availability and performance during infrastructure maintenance is essential in the ever changing virtualization landscape. VMware’s flagship product, vMotion, allows virtual machines (VMs) to be moved between physical hosts without interruption. How about the programmes that are executing in such virtual machines? Can they be told that the relocation is coming and given enough time to be ready?

Now for vMotion Application Notification, a revolutionary feature that debuted with vSphere 8. By giving apps the ability to actively participate in the vMotion process, this feature improves resiliency and reduces migration interruptions. Let’s investigate the advantages, settings, and best practices of this cutting-edge technology in more detail.

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Data Center / Operating System / Reviews

Demystifying JBD2: The Guardian Angel of Ext4 Filesystems

Data integrity is critical to the digital world. The backbone of this world, filesystems, are essential to the organization and security of this data. Ext4 is the most popular filesystem among them all because of its efficiency and dependability. But the JBD2 journaling layer is a secret weapon that powers its success.

This blog article explores the world of JBD2, including its features, goals, and effects on Ext4. We will make complex topics understandable to readers with different degrees of technical competence by navigating through them in a straightforward and simple manner.

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Data Center / Database / Reviews

OMS Unleashes Database Speed: Supercharge Your Oracle Performance on VMware vSphere

Efficient and high-performing databases are the foundation of many organizations in the age of data-driven decision making. One of the top relational database management systems (RDBMS) for enterprises, Oracle Database, has several features to maximize performance and meet expanding business requirements. The Oracle Memory Speed (OMS) file system is one such cutting-edge product that promises to greatly improve database speed and unleash the full potential of persistent memory (PMEM) devices.

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Cloud Native / Containerization / Reviews

Kube-Burner: Ignite Your Kubernetes Performance Optimization

Everything in the globe, from straightforward webpages to intricate AI applications, is powered by Kubernetes. However, even the most resilient Kubernetes cluster can fail when put under stress, much like a powerful engine. Presenting Kube-burner, a powerful tool that lets you maximize, stress-test, and realize the whole potential of your Kubernetes setup.

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Data Center / Reviews / Virtualization

QUIC: Deep Dive into the Revolutionary Protocol Redefining Networking

The internet, which hums with information that connects, informs, and entertains us, is the vitality of the twenty-first century. However, a complicated web of protocols, akin to gears operating behind the curtain, lurks under the surface of the relatively simple click-and-stream experience. Although one of these protocols, the ancient TCP, has been a good fit for us for many years, its shortcomings are becoming more noticeable as our online needs grow. Presenting QUIC, a groundbreaking new protocol that aims to usher in a new age of speed and security for the internet.

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Cloud Native Architecture / Containerization / Reviews

Canonical Kubernetes vs. Native: Unmasking the Cloud Champions

Kubernetes is the undisputed monarch of container orchestration in the dynamic world of cloud computing. And in this domain, Canonical Kubernetes rides to the rescue with a powerful trifecta of cost-effectiveness, adaptability, and security.

Whether you’re a novice or an experienced cloud fighter, this blog post will help you grasp the power of Canonical Kubernetes. We’ll examine its fundamental ideas, examine its special advantages, and provide you with the know-how to harness its potential for your cloud-native projects.

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Cloud Native Architecture / Data Storage / Reviews / Software Defined Data Center

MicroCeph: Big Data, Tiny Setup. Where Simplicity Scales Your Storage to the Stars

The open-source software defined storage (SDS) colossus, Ceph, has long been praised for its versatility, scalability, and strong feature set. But creating and maintaining a Ceph cluster, especially for small-scale deployments, may be a difficult undertaking best left to storage experts and experienced system administrators. Introducing MicroCeph, an opinionated and streamlined implementation of Ceph that seeks to enable everyone to use this potent storage solution.

Imagine being able to effortlessly manage a fully functional Ceph cluster with only a few finger snaps. That is MicroCeph’s magic. It uses Snaps, a safe and independent Linux packaging standard, to provide a pre-setup, pre-optimized Ceph experience. Forget about laborious orchestration, complicated daemons, and manual configuration; MicroCeph handles everything, from deployment to continuing management.