http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/index.html#394 Great discussion around Red Hat's solutions for clustering, fencing, etc, in virtualized environments. Fencing is /very/ important for shared resources, especially disk.  In a virtualized world (RHEV, VMWare, etc), fencing tools can reach right into the hypervisor to kill a failed node in a cluster.  Similarly, ILO, RSA, DRAC, etc can be used to … Continue reading Application High Availability in Virtual Environments

The Red Hat VDI solution has come a long way ... client-side rendering and media off-load, built right on top of the RHEV stack (no separate infrastructure!), user portal is part of the package (no additional purchase!). Comparisons between VMWare View and XenDesktop show roughly functionality/feature parity, but Red Hat VDI appears *much* less expensive, … Continue reading Simplified VDI with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops