Elastic Hadoop on scale-out POWER Servers
You must have heard about the new scale-out POWER8™servers from IBM as well as OpenPOWER members. Some of you might also want to evaluate it for your big data workloads, but have the following...
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Docker Swarm – Native Clustering for Docker Hosts
Docker swarm provides native clustering for docker hosts. In other words it turns a pool of docker hosts into a single virtual host. Conceptually a swarm cluster looks like the following: How to get...
OpenStack Ironic and Scale-out Power (ppc64) Servers
If you are planning to setup baremetal cloud using OpenStack Ironic and your environment consists of scale-out servers based on IBM POWER8 processor architecture, then you needn’t worry. You can leverage OpenStack Ironic for...
How to setup Debian on scale-out Power Servers as an OpenStack Compute Node
In this article, let us see how to use the Power scale-out servers for Linux, running Debian LE (ppc64el), as an OpenStack compute node. Thanks to my colleague Sudipta Biswas, who helped me to...
OpenStack Ironic – Managing Baremetal Hardware using OpenStack
Normally OpenStack is associated with managing of virtual servers. However OpenStack also supports managing of bare-metal cloud. This is made possible via the OpenStack Ironic project. OpenStack Ironic project provides bare metal management functionality....
Handling Platform Service Events from PowerKVM servers using OpenSource Tools
ELK stack which stands for Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana is a very common opensource log management solution, providing real time log analysis. Elasticsearch provides the storage and search engine, Logstash is the data collection...
How to Manage your Development System behind firewall using Tutum
Tutum can now manage hosts behind firewalls as well. This is especially useful for development environments on Virtual Machines (VMs) running on laptops or systems without having public IPs. It’s always better to know...
Experimenting with Socketplane for Docker
Current docker network functionality is limited. There is no support for openvswitch, tunneling, multiple networks among others. There are solutions like pipework, socketplane, weave, flannel from third party vendors providing advanced network functionality for...
Open Data Platform – Towards Possible Standardization of Hadoop based Solutions
Looks like the Big data world is now aiming for some standardization. Recently, a new alliance of Apache Hadoop distribution vendors, solution providers and customers got formed. The alliance named Open Data Platform (ODP)...
VMware vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform Services
Recently, VMware and Google entered into a partnership, that will allow certain Google Cloud Platform services to be available via VMware vCloud Air. Initially, the following Google Cloud Platform services will be provided: Google...
