Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over the last couple of years, the popularity of virtual learning has skyrocketed, and it is not just here at Dynatrace. For instance, traditional universities that had never offered virtual courses are now letting students learn remotely. Students can access guides and labs, interactive virtual servers, and more.

Virtualization 196

Virtualization Education Cloud Monitoring 196

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. Alongside the transition to the cloud, Enel embraced virtualization to maximize the utilization of its IT resources.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Benchmarking 72

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. What does the VirtualLog give us?

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. What is Microsoft Hyper-V? What’s next?

Efficiency 210

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 210

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stands out as a virtualization technology in the world of Linux. It allows physical servers to serve as hypervisor hosting machines ( VMs ). Additionally, its standing development history since 2006 ensures a stable virtualization platform.

Virtualization 117

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 117

Percona

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona Server for MySQL (PS) and the source is a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) cluster, using virtual IP (VIP) managed by Keepalived. Once node3 becomes available again, the virtual IP should come back to node3.

Servers 92

Servers Virtualization Open Source Scalability 92

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform, plays a crucial role in cloud computing infrastructures, providing a scalable and secure virtualization foundation. Hyper-V: Enabling Cloud Virtualization Hyper-V serves as a fundamental component in cloud computing environments, enabling efficient and flexible virtualization of resources.

Cloud 152

Cloud Energy Virtualization Hardware 152

DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The number of monitored network devices grew to several hundred, and we added monitoring for VPN tunnels, physical servers, VMware vCenter, virtual machines, and some services like DNS and NTP. Over the course of five years, while working on the project, we went through several system upgrades until we finally transitioned to Zabbix 4.0

Monitoring 268

Monitoring Systems DevOps Virtualization 268

DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

EC2 instances on AWS are virtual servers that can be used to run applications and services on the AWS cloud. They are characterized by resources such as CPU, RAM, storage capacity, or even bandwidth. Before you even begin exploring the different AWS EC2 instances , it is necessary to know your needs and your use cases.

AWS 177

AWS Virtualization Storage Cloud 177

SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this 28th article for SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we explore the high-availability for the SQL Server PolyBase(SSB) external tables using AG groups. SQL Server PolyBase Introduction It is a new feature from SQL Server 2016 to query the relational and non-relational database using data virtualization techniques.

Servers 99

Servers Availability Virtualization Database 99

DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Grafana is used widely these days to monitor and visualize the metrics for 100s or 1000s of servers, Kubernetes Platforms, Virtual Machines, Big Data Platforms, etc. If the data sources are not available then customized plugins can be developed to integrate these data sources.

Big Data 161

Big Data Open Source Virtualization Metrics 161

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2023

It serves as a bridge between Azure resources, on-premises servers, and virtual machines, enabling users to gain deep insights into the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure.

Azure 223

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Infrastructure 223

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

Servers 118

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 118

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

With its ability to handle SSL offloading, distribute traffic across multiple servers, and provide security features like DDoS protection, application firewall, and SSL VPN, organizations of all sizes rely on F5 BIG-IP LTM to improve application performance, availability, and security. Why is the Dynatrace F5 extension so popular?

Traffic 190

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Cloud 197

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

DZone

JULY 11, 2022

If you are a software developer, sooner or later you’ll have to connect to a Linux machine to perform administrative tasks, access remote database servers, or deploy applications, among other things. Getting comfortable using the command-line interface (CLI) is a must if you want to be proficient with Linux.

Virtualization 268

Virtualization Database Servers Software 268

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Dynatrace provides server metrics monitoring in under five minutes, showing servers’ CPU, memory, and network health metrics all the way through to the process level, with no manual configuration necessary. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed. How does Dynatrace help?

AWS 277

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 277

HammerDB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

by @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis to provide accelerated load performance for both SQL Server TPROC-C and TPROC-H schemas. Summary The new Use BCP Option for SQL Server accelerates both TPROC-C and TPROC-H schema loads, so you can get to running your benchmarks faster. With the default for v4.9 to have this feature enabled.

Servers 62

Servers C++ Benchmarking Virtualization 62

SQL Shack

JULY 15, 2020

In this article, we will proceed with configuring a SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and perform failover validations. A comprehensive guide to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Windows Server 2016 Configuration of virtual machines on Oracle […].

Servers 69

Servers Availability Virtualization Infrastructure 69

DZone

JULY 31, 2019

In the web hosting service industry, it is commonly used for balancing the HTTP traffic across multiple servers which act together as a web front-end. A Load Balancer allows the users to distribute the traffic to a single IP across several servers by using a set of different protocols. How Does a Load Balancer Work?

Servers 109

Servers Traffic Virtualization Infrastructure 109

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additional benefits of Dynatrace SaaS on Azure include: No infrastructure investment : Dynatrace manages the infrastructure for you, including automatic visibility, problem detection, and smart alerting across virtual networks, virtual infrastructure, and container orchestration.

Azure 319

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 319

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Cloud-server monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications.

Cloud 219

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 219

SQL Shack

AUGUST 28, 2020

In this 15th article of SQL Server Always On Availability Groups series, we will cover Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for AG databases. Introduction In the previous articles of SQL Server Always On series, we explored the following topics so far.

Availability 94

Availability Servers Virtualization Database 94

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2023

Workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) are replicated by site recovery to a backup site. Physical servers, on-premises VMs, and Azure Stack VMs. You fail over to a backup site and use the apps there if your original site has an outage. You can fail back to the primary location once it has resumed operation.

Azure 233

Azure Virtualization Strategy Servers 233

HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this post, we will do a walk through example of installing and configuring unixODBC and the SQL Server on Linux drivers as well as the HammerDB connection options to enable HammerDB on Linux to be able to connect to SQL Server. bin/odbcinst -d -q [ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server] [ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server].

Servers 62

Servers Virtualization Code Testing 62

DZone

JANUARY 13, 2020

Clustering is a group of servers or mule runtime which acts as a single unit. In simple terms, virtual servers composed of multiple nodes and they communicate and share information through a distributed shared memory grid. Learn more about clustering with MuleSoft. What Is Clustering?

Virtualization 273

Virtualization Scalability Servers Availability 273

SQL Shack

JULY 23, 2020

This is the 5th article in the series of a comprehensive guide to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. Introduction In the previous articles (see TOC at the bottom), we configured a two-node SQL Server Always On Availability Group. Build three Virtual Servers with Windows Server […].

Availability 87

Availability Servers Virtualization Performance 87

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Storage Virtualization Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. And is that because of a spike in total requests? ”. Pool nodes. Interfaces. HTTP, ServerSSL, and ClientSSL profiles.

Network 206

Network Virtualization Infrastructure Metrics 206

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Today, HPC is typically a mix of resources, including supercomputing and virtualized and bare metal servers, platforms for management, sharing and integration capabilities, and more. High performance computing (HPC) enables you to solve complex problems which cannot be solved by regular computing.

Cloud 261

Cloud Big Data Virtualization Efficiency 261

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. Here are the highlights: Monitoring Citrix (Python coded) The Dynatrace Citrix monitoring extension can now ingest observability signals from Citrix PowerShell SDK cmdlets in addition to existing metrics related to users, sessions, and Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA).

Technology 243

Technology Technology Scalability Availability 243

SQL Shack

JULY 13, 2020

In this series for SQL Server Always On availability groups, we are covering end to end configurations for SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016. In the article, A comprehensive guide to SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on Windows Server 2016, we configured three virtual machines with their networking configurations.

Availability 77

Availability Servers Virtualization Network 77

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The transaction log contains virtual log files, which contain log blocks, which store the actual log records. Virtual Log Files. The transaction log is split up into sections called virtual log files , commonly just called VLFs. Due to this problem, in SQL Server 2014 the algorithm changed for auto-growth of the log file.

Architecture 53

Architecture Servers Virtualization Database 53