Posts tagged "scale-2"

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AWS re:Invent 2017: Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users - ARC201

Nov 28, 2017

Benjamin Thurgood from AWS Cloud is awesome, you can scale your web app or site on demand! But where do you start when you’re planning for bi g numbers of users. Making some design choices up front can dramatically simplify your life later. Benjamin showed how best to link together different AWS services and using the capabilities of the AWS platform. Autoscaling is only the beginning, there’s...

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How Policy will drive the Software Defined Data Center

Jul 25, 2014

Many companies trying to take advantage of cloud computing are embracing the moniker of the "Software Defined Data Center" as one way to understand and communicate the benefits of moving towards an infrastructure resource utility model. ( has taken on the term SDDC to mean doing everything in your data center with software and not requiring any custom hardware. Other companies sell "software-de...

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Upgrading vSphere from 4 to 5 - a UK VMUG presentation.

Nov 3, 2011

My presentation has nothing whatsoever to do with motorcycles unfortunately but is rather about upgrading your virtual infrastructure from vSphere 4 to 5. In hindsight I should have taken some more inspiration from the surroundings and somehow worked a motorcycle angle into my presentation, I should plan more carefully in the future! Upgrading to vSphere 5 doesn’t actually have to be a particul...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 5, So, after all that...

Jan 13, 2011

This post is the last in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. This all started as a presentation at the ( meeting, ( where I talked about some of the things you should be thinking about when scaling your virtual infrastructure. Here are the links to all the posts: ( ( ( ( (

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 4, Design Thinking

Jan 10, 2011

This post is the fourth in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I went through some of the considerations specific to VDI and talked about how big your environment can get if you decide to go VDI. In ( I talked about how the virtual hosting environment you built a few years ago may be starting to get a little unwieldy to manage. I suggested: _"Now is the time to paus...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 3, Scaling for VDI

Dec 15, 2010

This post is the third in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I went through some communication ideas to involve more people in the information gathering stage to ultimately be able to put together a better infrastructure So...VDI, the promised solution to all your IT needs. No PCs on desks, thin clients, zero clients, happy clients, automated provisioning, stateles...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 2, Speak to the People

Dec 9, 2010

This post is the second in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I talked about looking at your current environment and seeing where you need to get to by doing a bit of crystal ball future capacity planning combined with understanding your current infrastructure limitations. In this post I'm going to talk about something that isn't done enough in infrastructure proje...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 1, Taking Stock

Dec 7, 2010

I recently had the privilege of presenting at the ( meeting, ( where I talked about some of the things you should be thinking about when scaling your virtual infrastructure. I've turned part of the presentation into a series of posts, going through some of the aspects you should be considering when your virtual environment demands bigger, better, faster, more! (../2010/12/07/designing-a-virtual...

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