Archive | July, 2009

Weighing The Scale

Much of the time in class today was spent talking about scalability.  Scalability is an interesting game because there are many ways to build scale into an infrastructure. One approach is to build fewer, higher powered hosts. This is known as “scale up” architecture.  With this architecture there are fewer hosts to manage and a [...]

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Know Thy App

Today I started VMware design class, which is shaping up to be a fascinating journey.  The class really is affirming many design conclusions that I previously came to on my own.  It also is bringing back many of the concepts taught in the ‘Install and Configure’ and ‘Deploy, Secure, Analyze’ classes, which is good to [...]

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