CA To Acquire Cloud Computing Solution Provider 3Tera

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This is a really great news, I was working with 3tera AppLogic, it’s really great tool and “CA also plans to extend support of 3Tera , which currently operates on the Xen virtualization platform, to include both VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V”. this looks very promising.

Head-to-Head Comparison – Parallels and VMware Virtualization on the Mac

Head-to-Head Comparison Between Parallels and VMware Virtualization on the Mac

After VMware, Oracle too invests in application performance management

After VMware, Oracle too invests in application performance management

WOW: Citrix XenServer is now really open source

Citrix XenServer is now open source

Update: Oracle VM 3.0 and VirtualBox roadmaps

Hi, VirtualBox now provide a VMware Workstation/ESX compatible device, looks compatible XEN mode will come too ?

Oracle VM 3.0 and VirtualBox roadmaps

Criticism: On the many limitations of (network) virtual appliances

Interesting summary of issues with Virtual Appliances:

On the many limitations of (network) virtual appliances

Milestone: Most content migrated, but some links still don’t work

Be patient, I am working on fixing this issues.

Part 2: Glassfish V3 Pet Catalog sample DEMO in VM Template – OS Instance

OpenSolaris 200906 JeOS Prototype was designed as PURE CLI enviroment providing main building stone for creation of Virtual Appliances or VM Templates

In this example I will demonstrate creation of Evaluation type Virtual Appliance / VM Template which will leveradge OpenSolaris 200906 JeOS prototype and just in Dec/09 released Glassfish v3, Java EE 6 and Netbeans 6.8 with simple Java EE 6 demo. This entry is part of Virtual Appliances & OVF workshop.

New Glassfish V3 introduce an unique network repository based modular structure, so we can more easily create really simple initial DEMO setup which user can extend by installation more samples right from Glassfish V3 repository or from Netbeans GUI.

Step 1: Create OS Instance
   General Information – JeOS Prototype OpenSolaris project
   Step 1a: Create an OpenSolaris 20906 JeOS Prototype instance
   Step 1b: Start JeOS VM instance and check readiness as user root
   Step 1c: Create a non-root but fully privileged user