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Join us at the OpenStack Summit in Austin!
Next week, we’ll be at the OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, for the five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software! If you’re planning on browsing the...
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Hyper-V Failover Cluster in OpenStack
We’re very pleased to announce that starting with the Mitaka release we have introduced a new Openstack Nova Compute Driver, the Hyper-V Failover Cluster Driver, offering host based fault tolerance to...
View ArticleCloudbase Solutions™ and Mirantis Integrate Hyper-V and OpenStack® for...
Cloudbase Solutions™ and Mirantis Integrate Hyper-V and OpenStack® for Windows® Workloads Cloudbase Solutions announced a partnership with Mirantis that will let enterprises use OpenStack Hyper-V...
View ArticleCloudbase Solutions Achieves Industry’s First Windows on OpenStack...
Cloudbase Solutions Achieves Industry’s First Windows on OpenStack Certification with Red Hat OpenStack Platform Today at the OpenStack Summit, Cloudbase Solutions announced a collaboration with Red...
View ArticleCloudbase Solutions Announces Enterprise Cloud Migration as a Service
Cloudbase Solutions Announces Enterprise Cloud Migration as a Service Cloudbase Solutions, the leader of enterprise OpenStack® on Windows® products, announced the release of their product Coriolis –...
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Open vSwitch 2.5 on Hyper-V (OpenStack) – Part 1
We are happy to announce the availability of Open vSwitch 2.5 (OVS) for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016 (technical preview) thanks to the joint effort of Cloudbase Solutions, VMware and...
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What’s new in Mitaka for Hyper-V
As you may already know, OpenStack Mitaka has been recently released. It has been quite an eventful cycle, full of new features, increased performance and overall reliability improvements on our...
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Hyper-V Shielded VMs – Part 1
Shielded virtual machines use several features to make it harder for datacenter administrators and malware to inspect, tamper with, or steal data and the state of these virtual machines. Data and state...
View ArticleHyper-V Shielded VMs – Part 2
A Shielded VM is a Hyper-V generation 2 VM that has a virtual TPM, is encrypted using BitLocker and can only run on healthy and approved hosts in the fabric. It is protected from inspection, tampering...
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Coriolis v2 – Adding DRaaS to Cloud Migrations
We’re excited to announce that our Coriolis cloud migration project introduced earlier this year just reached a new important milestone. With the addition of new features specifically aimed at...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch 2.5 on Hyper-V (VXLAN) – Part 2
OVS VXLAN setup on Hyper-V without OpenStack In the previous post we explained how to deploy Open vSwitch (OVS) on Hyper-V and integrate it into an OpenStack environment. In this second part we will...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch 2.5 on Hyper-V (GRE) – Part 3
OVS GRE setup on Hyper-V without OpenStack In this post we will explain how to configure manually a Open vSwitch GRE tunnel between VMs running on Hyper-V and KVM hosts. KVM OVS configuration In this...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch 2.5 on Hyper-V (STT) – Part 4
OVS STT setup on Hyper-V without OpenStack In this post we will explain how to configure manually a Open vSwitch STT tunnel between VMs running on Hyper-V and KVM hosts. KVM OVS configuration In this...
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Azure Service Fabric on OpenStack
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. It can be deployed on Azure, but also on-premise, thus...
View ArticleOpenStack – KVM vs Hyper-V – Part 1
OpenStack Newton has been recently released. During this cycle we did quite some work on increasing the performance and overall reliability of our Windows and Hyper-V OpenStack compute drivers. This...
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OpenStack – KVM vs Hyper-V – Part 2
In the previous part of this OpenStack KVM vs Hyper-V compute benchmarking series we talked about how to setup the testing environment and how to run some scenarios. Time for some results! Scenario 1...
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OpenStack Newton Benchmarking – Scenario 2
We talked about setting up the environment for benchmarking and we have seen in the previous part a simple OpenStack scenario. In this part we are going to continue by adding more complexity to the use...
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OpenStack Newton Benchmarking – Scenario 3 (Hadoop)
We have seen how to setup the benchmarking environment and two simple scenarios (Scenario 1, Scenario 2) in the previous blogposts of this series. This time we are going to add Hadoop to the mix to...
View ArticleOpenStack Newton Benchmarking – Conclusions
before reading the conclusions, we recommend to read the previous posts in this series if you want to know more details about the environment and the test scenarios: Introduction, Scenario 1, Scenario...
View ArticleMigrate VirtualBox VMs to Hyper-V and Azure
Both Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation / Fusion use the popular VMDK virtual disk format, optionally as part of an OVA package. Here’s a quick HOWTO on converting VMDK disks to the VHD or VHDX...
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