VMWare supports live replication. Why just migrate when you can have automatic, near zero downtime fail over with live replication?
Good luck, VMWare? Hehe, you seriously overestimate the live migration feature. Or rather, it is no longer that special. Even HyperV has live migration. The difference is, VMWare does it VERY well. And I've yet to see anyone come close to the live replication that VMWare does.
Don't be offended by this post. I just don't think you're talking real business. Maybe it's "kick ass" for a home setup or a 3 person office.
Recent Experience
We tried Hyper-V for 6 months, and it was the most god awful unstable piece of crap I've ever worked with. A brand new IBM x3650 m3 running 12 cores crashed on a weekly basis and corrupted its main RAID running Windows Server 2008 R2. I think we can all agree that Microsoft virtualization, be it VirtualPC or HyperV is just absolute shit.
We've since switched to vSphere/ESXi, and haven't had a single crash. Everything is running fast and stable. I can live migrate any of the machines. Should a disaster happen, I can bring up another ESXi machine in on any other server or replacement hard drives (should our hot swap drives also fail) in about 5 minutes. Time is money on my network, and I don't have time to screw around. HyperV is not a 5 minute install, and I doubt your solution is either.
I can use VMPlayer instead of VirtualPC which is also free as in beer, not speech. ESXi is also free as in beer, though it is well worth the license for more features. And yes, it does live migrations. Unlike MS solutions, VMWare supports installs on Linux. I rather run Windows 7 in VMPlayer on Ubuntu, than run Ubuntu on Windows 7.
Being in a major production environment where every minute of downtime is a lost customer, I can't play around with anyone that doesn't have major support. That pretty much means Microsoft, Citrix, or VMWare. And of those three, I've had the best luck with VMWare. I've even heard Citrix is good, especially in VDI.
I don't think VMWare is in any need of luck. I know of no serious business looking for 4th party solutions for their major production servers. As someone else said, maybe for a VERY small shop, maybe for a dev box, but not for Enterprise.
Setup
What is your setup and why in Spagetti Monster's name are you running VM over NFS ethernet? Either go RAID or fiber to a SAN. That does not sound like a good Enterprise setup. Are we talking 10GB over a dedicated line (doable) or 1GB over switch (WTF)? If it's the latter, I bet you have a hell of a write to disk latency problem if you run more than 1 production VM. Personally, I'd go fiber SAN if RAID wasn't an option, but then again, I run 12 VMs on 2 64bit servers alongside a small array of dedicated servers. I'd laugh an AoE based VM proposal right out of my office.
I'm just taking a wild guess you aren't running a rack, or have network intensive users/applications. In my situation, I have to deal with about 80 workstations, a remote office, and 4 internet data connections on top of the servers themselves, including a 13TB file server and 20TB of backup storage. I can eat bandwidth with the best of them. When you can no longer count your routers and switches on your fingers, then I'd more willing to listen.
So, I don't know who you are posting to, because it's not really SMB or Enterprise.
The "Express Settings" that even us IT people use to avoid hassle is causing the search box to default to Bing. So, when on another machine, 33% of my searches go to Bing as well. But I do not like the results, unless I'm searching for Microsoft product downloads. I usually end up manually typing in www.google.com . For most people, setting Google as your homepage is enough. But in work environments, companies have their own homepages, which means the search box/address bar is king.
At least Chrome gives you 3 options when you install it: Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Don't get down on nuclear. Thorium is the future. We have enough supply of it to replace the entire world's energy needs, and the salt based solution is the safest there is. It does not require the reinforced meltdown containment of traditional nuclear.
If any nuclear power could be called safe, Thorium is it. Or LFTR, specifically.
> Wow, how much do you have to pay for an Android developer licenses to do the same thing? $100. Shocking.
Try $0. Android owners don't have to play "Mother, May I?" with Apple and jump through hoops to run our own apps on our own phones. We can install our own.apk files anytime we feel like it. If you want to publish on Android Market, it's $25.
$0, $25, $100? That's just part of the "fragmentation"!
The people this solves the problem for don't even have clean running water. Where the hell are they supposed to plug this in with no electricity? Not to mention the price of the device plus generators and human/crank battery chargers.
If John Q. Wallet invents some must-have widget which is easy to manufacture, cheap, and available everywhere; and suddenly sells millions of them, I'll bet he's feeling pretty good about that too. However, if he invents something that is a piece of crap that no one buys, he's going to have just as much of a loss.
This phenomenon is hardly new, and certainly not localized to the iTunes App Store.
"Just as much of a loss" is a bit of an overstatement. I doubt John Q. Wallet invested millions into an app. At most, John Q. Wallet's real loss was a couple Saturday morning cartoons making his piece of crap.
Also, "is easy to manufacture, cheap, and available everywhere" doesn't apply to a digital store.
On the other hand, there are game companies that make excellent games for thousands of dollars, but can't make it to any front page because there are thousands of companies just like them pouring in thousands of dollars. Still, the chance that $50,000 could turn into $5,000,000 is hard to pass up. Just look at the crap that is making money. Angry birds, Fruit Ninja, and Plants vs. Zombies are just cartoons based on old flash games. I happen to like all three, but I don't consider them "must-have". It's not like they are brilliant innovations. They simply have the appeal of cheap, simple cartoon violence.
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
Hi, nice to meet you. I'm a power user (Network Administrator) who has used Ubuntu for many years, SUSE/RH about evenly before that, and... Overall, I like Unity. Sure, it's different, and took me a while to get used to it. But, considering I have an actual use for the Windows key now, I really enjoy it. I just hit Windows Key, and type the name of the program I want. There are some bugs still, but I'm looking towards the 12.04 for the finishing polish.
Because, I'm a power user, and I know what I want, and I don't need menus, because I grew up on CLI. To argue against that functionality is to argue against CTRL-R. That's a command power users know, and is now mapped to a single key, with a bit of search to bring up programs we remember the function for but not the exact name. Such as doing "update" or "software" to see all of the package managers.
So, while you may not "want" to meet anyone who disagrees with you, here I am.
In pre-Internet years, that's like going back to the founding of Western Union and saying you'll watch them for the next 200 years, as if anything done today will really be relevant then. Even the concept of privacy will radically change by then. Also by then, Google could be the next Yahoo used-to-be by then. Anyone wanna buy a company with the FTC's hand up its ass?
FTA: "The actress - referred to in court documents by the placeholder name Jane Doe - lives in Texas, is of Asian descent and has an Americanised stage name...approaching 40"
1. All I could think of was comedian Margaret Cho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho , who just turned 43. (ie. slightly lying about age for the sake of posterity?"
2. She performed in Texas, dunno if she lives there.
3. That's her stage name, her birth name was "Moran Cho".
4. And she has no good movies, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158632/ . So maybe she considers doing all B movies "up and coming". Her pics try to make her look like a hot 20 year old. Ah, the joys of Photoshop and lawyers.
I have a T-Mobile MyTouch 4g running Cyanogenmod 7.1 in my pocket right now. It's a very, very nice phone. I also have a friend who is looking to buy his first smartphone. He just wants the Internet in his pocket, and reading product barcodes to immediatly find reviews & prices interests him. No games or videoconferencing or anything fancy.
So why the hell would he want CyanogenMod or updates past the version that came with the phone and works fine out of the box? Your argument for an iPhone for your friend makes no sense, with all due respect.
I've been talking to my computer with it talking back to me since Windows 95 using Dragon Naturally Speaking for voice input, and Zabaware's Hal for AI/internet enabled answers and text-to-speech responses. I've was talking to my computer before most people owned a cell phone.
Not revolutionary, not innovative, and certainly not magical.
If by more "natural", they mean slower and announcing all your business to everyone within ear shot, then yeah, I suppose so.
In other words, we really don't "know" anything new, we just added more descriptions to the undefined without really explaining what the undefined is. This didn't explain "how" it worked either, it just showed that using the formula, "it works".
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VMWare supports live replication. Why just migrate when you can have automatic, near zero downtime fail over with live replication?
Good luck, VMWare? Hehe, you seriously overestimate the live migration feature. Or rather, it is no longer that special. Even HyperV has live migration. The difference is, VMWare does it VERY well. And I've yet to see anyone come close to the live replication that VMWare does.
Don't be offended by this post. I just don't think you're talking real business. Maybe it's "kick ass" for a home setup or a 3 person office.
Recent Experience
We tried Hyper-V for 6 months, and it was the most god awful unstable piece of crap I've ever worked with. A brand new IBM x3650 m3 running 12 cores crashed on a weekly basis and corrupted its main RAID running Windows Server 2008 R2. I think we can all agree that Microsoft virtualization, be it VirtualPC or HyperV is just absolute shit.
We've since switched to vSphere/ESXi, and haven't had a single crash. Everything is running fast and stable. I can live migrate any of the machines. Should a disaster happen, I can bring up another ESXi machine in on any other server or replacement hard drives (should our hot swap drives also fail) in about 5 minutes. Time is money on my network, and I don't have time to screw around. HyperV is not a 5 minute install, and I doubt your solution is either.
I can use VMPlayer instead of VirtualPC which is also free as in beer, not speech. ESXi is also free as in beer, though it is well worth the license for more features. And yes, it does live migrations. Unlike MS solutions, VMWare supports installs on Linux. I rather run Windows 7 in VMPlayer on Ubuntu, than run Ubuntu on Windows 7.
Being in a major production environment where every minute of downtime is a lost customer, I can't play around with anyone that doesn't have major support. That pretty much means Microsoft, Citrix, or VMWare. And of those three, I've had the best luck with VMWare. I've even heard Citrix is good, especially in VDI.
I don't think VMWare is in any need of luck. I know of no serious business looking for 4th party solutions for their major production servers. As someone else said, maybe for a VERY small shop, maybe for a dev box, but not for Enterprise.
Setup
What is your setup and why in Spagetti Monster's name are you running VM over NFS ethernet? Either go RAID or fiber to a SAN. That does not sound like a good Enterprise setup. Are we talking 10GB over a dedicated line (doable) or 1GB over switch (WTF)? If it's the latter, I bet you have a hell of a write to disk latency problem if you run more than 1 production VM. Personally, I'd go fiber SAN if RAID wasn't an option, but then again, I run 12 VMs on 2 64bit servers alongside a small array of dedicated servers. I'd laugh an AoE based VM proposal right out of my office.
I'm just taking a wild guess you aren't running a rack, or have network intensive users/applications. In my situation, I have to deal with about 80 workstations, a remote office, and 4 internet data connections on top of the servers themselves, including a 13TB file server and 20TB of backup storage. I can eat bandwidth with the best of them. When you can no longer count your routers and switches on your fingers, then I'd more willing to listen.
So, I don't know who you are posting to, because it's not really SMB or Enterprise.
The "Express Settings" that even us IT people use to avoid hassle is causing the search box to default to Bing. So, when on another machine, 33% of my searches go to Bing as well. But I do not like the results, unless I'm searching for Microsoft product downloads. I usually end up manually typing in www.google.com . For most people, setting Google as your homepage is enough. But in work environments, companies have their own homepages, which means the search box/address bar is king.
At least Chrome gives you 3 options when you install it: Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Now Microsoft is linking Xbox 360, its most successful consumer-focused brand, with others that have not been as well received.
Can't wait for MS Bob w/ avatars on XBox!
Don't get down on nuclear. Thorium is the future. We have enough supply of it to replace the entire world's energy needs, and the salt based solution is the safest there is. It does not require the reinforced meltdown containment of traditional nuclear.
If any nuclear power could be called safe, Thorium is it. Or LFTR, specifically.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/107403602702342125509/posts/VFLzb7rzByx - All about Thorium and the WH.gov petition link.
> Wow, how much do you have to pay for an Android developer licenses to do the same thing? $100. Shocking.
Try $0. Android owners don't have to play "Mother, May I?" with Apple and jump through hoops to run our own apps on our own phones. We can install our own .apk files anytime we feel like it. If you want to publish on Android Market, it's $25.
$0, $25, $100? That's just part of the "fragmentation"!
Awww, did I hurt some wittle wepubwican feewings?
Take a joke, bitches, not like you're ever gonna hurt my karma.
The people this solves the problem for don't even have clean running water. Where the hell are they supposed to plug this in with no electricity? Not to mention the price of the device plus generators and human/crank battery chargers.
Talk about over-engineering the solution!
2. Extend.
People aren't going to use Siri very much, because talking to your phone makes you look stupid.
How do you make phone calls then without looking stupid?
That's a trick question similar to "How do you chug from a beer bong without looking stupid?"
It doesn't look a day over 15.
Here's what's funny. Everyone said, "Facebook will crush Google+ by copying its public posting ability!"
Yet, Google was sitting there the whole time going, "Please copy us! Please! Please! Please!"
If John Q. Wallet invents some must-have widget which is easy to manufacture, cheap, and available everywhere; and suddenly sells millions of them, I'll bet he's feeling pretty good about that too. However, if he invents something that is a piece of crap that no one buys, he's going to have just as much of a loss.
This phenomenon is hardly new, and certainly not localized to the iTunes App Store.
"Just as much of a loss" is a bit of an overstatement. I doubt John Q. Wallet invested millions into an app. At most, John Q. Wallet's real loss was a couple Saturday morning cartoons making his piece of crap.
Also, "is easy to manufacture, cheap, and available everywhere" doesn't apply to a digital store.
On the other hand, there are game companies that make excellent games for thousands of dollars, but can't make it to any front page because there are thousands of companies just like them pouring in thousands of dollars. Still, the chance that $50,000 could turn into $5,000,000 is hard to pass up. Just look at the crap that is making money. Angry birds, Fruit Ninja, and Plants vs. Zombies are just cartoons based on old flash games. I happen to like all three, but I don't consider them "must-have". It's not like they are brilliant innovations. They simply have the appeal of cheap, simple cartoon violence.
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
Yeah, that's called Reaganomics.
Hi, nice to meet you. I'm a power user (Network Administrator) who has used Ubuntu for many years, SUSE/RH about evenly before that, and... Overall, I like Unity. Sure, it's different, and took me a while to get used to it. But, considering I have an actual use for the Windows key now, I really enjoy it. I just hit Windows Key, and type the name of the program I want. There are some bugs still, but I'm looking towards the 12.04 for the finishing polish.
Because, I'm a power user, and I know what I want, and I don't need menus, because I grew up on CLI. To argue against that functionality is to argue against CTRL-R. That's a command power users know, and is now mapped to a single key, with a bit of search to bring up programs we remember the function for but not the exact name. Such as doing "update" or "software" to see all of the package managers.
So, while you may not "want" to meet anyone who disagrees with you, here I am.
... build your products in China and charge 10x the manufacturing costs to your customers.
> There are always going to be 'haves' and 'have nots' in this world...that's the way of nature.
I think you're confusing nature with modern society.
Not sure about that. I'd consider the Dinosaurs "have nots".
In pre-Internet years, that's like going back to the founding of Western Union and saying you'll watch them for the next 200 years, as if anything done today will really be relevant then. Even the concept of privacy will radically change by then. Also by then, Google could be the next Yahoo used-to-be by then. Anyone wanna buy a company with the FTC's hand up its ass?
Yeah, I don't quite see Grandma falling for this... she couldn't even understand the instructions, let alone be fooled into doing this.
FTA: "The actress - referred to in court documents by the placeholder name Jane Doe - lives in Texas, is of Asian descent and has an Americanised stage name...approaching 40"
1. All I could think of was comedian Margaret Cho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho , who just turned 43. (ie. slightly lying about age for the sake of posterity?"
2. She performed in Texas, dunno if she lives there.
3. That's her stage name, her birth name was "Moran Cho".
4. And she has no good movies, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158632/ . So maybe she considers doing all B movies "up and coming". Her pics try to make her look like a hot 20 year old. Ah, the joys of Photoshop and lawyers.
I have a T-Mobile MyTouch 4g running Cyanogenmod 7.1 in my pocket right now. It's a very, very nice phone. I also have a friend who is looking to buy his first smartphone. He just wants the Internet in his pocket, and reading product barcodes to immediatly find reviews & prices interests him. No games or videoconferencing or anything fancy.
So why the hell would he want CyanogenMod or updates past the version that came with the phone and works fine out of the box? Your argument for an iPhone for your friend makes no sense, with all due respect.
I think I would spend the next 165 years practising addition
Maybe you should spend it practicing spelling.
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
If you lower it and remove all "loopholes" and exclusions, then everybody pays it. It's pretty simple, really.
Or you just remove the loopholes and don't lower it. What, Google's going to close their doors over a 2-3% tax rate scuffle? Please.
I've been talking to my computer with it talking back to me since Windows 95 using Dragon Naturally Speaking for voice input, and Zabaware's Hal for AI/internet enabled answers and text-to-speech responses. I've was talking to my computer before most people owned a cell phone.
Not revolutionary, not innovative, and certainly not magical.
If by more "natural", they mean slower and announcing all your business to everyone within ear shot, then yeah, I suppose so.
In other words, we really don't "know" anything new, we just added more descriptions to the undefined without really explaining what the undefined is. This didn't explain "how" it worked either, it just showed that using the formula, "it works".
So you really can tell someone to go F' themself, brilliant!