I've set up networks where the server infrastructure itself is on its own segment, so there's no need for firewalls between the servers themselves, but the whole subnet is firewalled by a border router.
This is the same approach taken with many industrial control systems (i.e. SCADA) that weren't designed to be used in an internet connected world.
That link is referencing a citrix only idea, but their general distinctions between user types is apt. As of View 5.3, there is no longer a lockin to NVIDIA products yet nobody has made any yet to my knowledge. Intel & AMD are on the list to produce something sometime.
We very recently went through adding Grid cards to our VMware View infrastructure. The Grid K1 & K2 cards are a tradeoff on either more kepler processors or more cuda cores in addition to the quantity of RAM. VMware View can utilize a Grid card in either vSGA or vDGA modes (shared or direct passthrough of a kepler processor). From what I can discern, Dell only officially supports the Grid cards in their R720 server. That particular chassis can only accept 2 Grid cards max. So you can get your choice of 2, 4, 6, or 8 kepler processors. If you're using vDGA mode, you're creating a direct VDI desktop allocation of that core with DirectPath I/O. While this means that one desktop is going to have great performance, it means it isn't available for anyone else and you lose vMotion capability. If you run in vSGA mode, the performance per machine isn't as good as vDGA but more desktops can utilize the hardware. There arn't any good whitepapers I've found yet describing how far you can stretch a Grid K1, but the rule of thumb I got from another company who has ran them through their benchmark lab got around 25 desktops per K1 max. Therefore, assuming you've got a pair of them that means you can run ~50 desktops with a reduced performance when compared to vDGA. The technology still appears to be young to me, but we decided to take a chance and see how far we could take it.
The reason I've been given when asking about it was that only one modem could be provisioned on their end per last mile cable. So to provide a second WAN connection, they would have to run additional wiring from the pole into my house at my expense.
Good luck finding a residential router capable of multiple WAN connections for a resonable price. Also, I don't believe they would do it because they can't provision more then one modem to an address/account, unless it's business class.
Yeah, because that worked out so well for consumers in the mobile phone space...
Also, this isn't new. Suddenlink has been doing this for over a year for everyone in our region. A friend of mine constantly streams netflix because he has young kids and a stay at home wife. He uses 100% of his cap almost every month at the highest rate plans available. Without switching to a business contract for 10x the cost, he can't get a bigger cap.
Some mail hosts & websites support using +notation in email addresses (i.e. gmail & google apps). So rather than generating new email addresses for everything, I do something like myemail+webpage@mydomain.com. When you look at who the email was sent to it should repeat this same pattern.
Sooner or later they're going to realize that the internet is not conducive to their monopolistic, pricing model. I expect at some point they're just going to try and blanket take down all media on the internet, then come up with their own Internet3 crippled with DRM. Of course they'll sell signing keys and leases to indy publishers after enough red tape and time...
Clearly the solution here is to give Sony more personal information than you already have. How about your SSN, relative's contact info, 3rd grade report card, or facebook login (hoping you don't use the same login there). If Sony doesn't get their act together though, this will just turn into a cycle. There really is no way to identify someone on the internet other than using one issued by some other body such as a SSN or CCN who has hopefully done their legwork to verify your applications for ID are legitimate.
I'm not going to go back to the PSN until Sony gives me a year of credit monitoring and the ability to sue them (not that I would, but thank you SCOTUS).
This is the result of letting companies get patents that boil down to numbers and abstract generic processes. I think the only way to fix it is to reform how patents are granted, for what, and for how long. If USPTO simply can't handle the load they're under, then they should complain to their bosses for more resources, reform their practices, or change applicant's expectations.
You also forgot that legitimate businesses will be buying up the.xxx domains as fast as possible to prevent others tarnishing their name (Google.xxx, Yahoo.xxx, Bing.xxx, Oracle.xxx, etc.). If establishing a serious presence on the internet, I suspect that some companies buy all the TLD they can get for a domain for future proofing too.
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I've set up networks where the server infrastructure itself is on its own segment, so there's no need for firewalls between the servers themselves, but the whole subnet is firewalled by a border router.
This is the same approach taken with many industrial control systems (i.e. SCADA) that weren't designed to be used in an internet connected world.
What version of Vmware View? Doesn't the vSGA scaling depend on which 'profile' you use?
See here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/v...
That link is referencing a citrix only idea, but their general distinctions between user types is apt. As of View 5.3, there is no longer a lockin to NVIDIA products yet nobody has made any yet to my knowledge. Intel & AMD are on the list to produce something sometime.
We very recently went through adding Grid cards to our VMware View infrastructure. The Grid K1 & K2 cards are a tradeoff on either more kepler processors or more cuda cores in addition to the quantity of RAM. VMware View can utilize a Grid card in either vSGA or vDGA modes (shared or direct passthrough of a kepler processor). From what I can discern, Dell only officially supports the Grid cards in their R720 server. That particular chassis can only accept 2 Grid cards max. So you can get your choice of 2, 4, 6, or 8 kepler processors. If you're using vDGA mode, you're creating a direct VDI desktop allocation of that core with DirectPath I/O. While this means that one desktop is going to have great performance, it means it isn't available for anyone else and you lose vMotion capability. If you run in vSGA mode, the performance per machine isn't as good as vDGA but more desktops can utilize the hardware. There arn't any good whitepapers I've found yet describing how far you can stretch a Grid K1, but the rule of thumb I got from another company who has ran them through their benchmark lab got around 25 desktops per K1 max. Therefore, assuming you've got a pair of them that means you can run ~50 desktops with a reduced performance when compared to vDGA. The technology still appears to be young to me, but we decided to take a chance and see how far we could take it.
They took care of that by only installing one per mailbox address, except business class.
The reason I've been given when asking about it was that only one modem could be provisioned on their end per last mile cable. So to provide a second WAN connection, they would have to run additional wiring from the pole into my house at my expense.
Good luck finding a residential router capable of multiple WAN connections for a resonable price. Also, I don't believe they would do it because they can't provision more then one modem to an address/account, unless it's business class.
Yeah, because that worked out so well for consumers in the mobile phone space...
Also, this isn't new. Suddenlink has been doing this for over a year for everyone in our region. A friend of mine constantly streams netflix because he has young kids and a stay at home wife. He uses 100% of his cap almost every month at the highest rate plans available. Without switching to a business contract for 10x the cost, he can't get a bigger cap.
Then they wouldn't be citizens, would they?
Have you looked at what politicians call immigration reform?
They're called undocumented immigrants.
We've been happy with our B-line FlexTray system running in our datacenter. It was easy to install, looks nice, and wasn't terribly expensive.
AKA Gold.
If someone has found a way to hack gold, they have had the good sense to keep quiet about it.
An alchemist never reveals their tricks.
If they were to rule out gene patents in humans, I wonder what that would do to Monsanto and the rest of the GMO industry?
Wasn't this the same guy that killed single-player only games from EA?
Some mail hosts & websites support using +notation in email addresses (i.e. gmail & google apps). So rather than generating new email addresses for everything, I do something like myemail+webpage@mydomain.com. When you look at who the email was sent to it should repeat this same pattern.
Trusting a cloud provider to the point where you don't have backups is one of the stupidest things I have heard today.
That's why I have 2 Cloud providers and replicate between them...
Department of Steven Colbert.
Sooner or later they're going to realize that the internet is not conducive to their monopolistic, pricing model. I expect at some point they're just going to try and blanket take down all media on the internet, then come up with their own Internet3 crippled with DRM. Of course they'll sell signing keys and leases to indy publishers after enough red tape and time...
Gimmicks can be great when they work, but they often flop hard.
Nintendo already knows this, just look at the virtual boy, powerglove, and R.O.B.
Clearly the solution here is to give Sony more personal information than you already have. How about your SSN, relative's contact info, 3rd grade report card, or facebook login (hoping you don't use the same login there). If Sony doesn't get their act together though, this will just turn into a cycle. There really is no way to identify someone on the internet other than using one issued by some other body such as a SSN or CCN who has hopefully done their legwork to verify your applications for ID are legitimate.
I'm not going to go back to the PSN until Sony gives me a year of credit monitoring and the ability to sue them (not that I would, but thank you SCOTUS).
Borland has also had support for parts of the C++0x spec for some time now.
I'm just sick and tired of the intellectual property arms race/cold war that's been going on now for some time.
This is the result of letting companies get patents that boil down to numbers and abstract generic processes. I think the only way to fix it is to reform how patents are granted, for what, and for how long. If USPTO simply can't handle the load they're under, then they should complain to their bosses for more resources, reform their practices, or change applicant's expectations.
You also forgot that legitimate businesses will be buying up the .xxx domains as fast as possible to prevent others tarnishing their name (Google.xxx, Yahoo.xxx, Bing.xxx, Oracle.xxx, etc.). If establishing a serious presence on the internet, I suspect that some companies buy all the TLD they can get for a domain for future proofing too.
And there was much rejoicing from the internet.