Virtual Servers

VPS Hosting - Whats all the fuss?
Some are now providing Virtuozzo powered virtual servers . What is Virtuozzo or a VPS? Virtuozzo is a product developed by Parallels (formerly Sw-Soft) that creates multiple isolated virtual servers or containers on a single physical ...

VPS Hosting - Whats all the fuss?
A lot of Irish hosting companies have started offering VPS hosting or Virtual Private Servers over the last 18 months or so. Some are using open source solutions, some are using FREE VPS and VMWARE flavors. ...

XenServer 4.1 Review
One or more VIFs (Virtual Interface) reside in a VM. You can have up to 4 PIFs per physical host and up to 7 VIFs per VM. A Network is a virtual ethernet switch onto which VIFs and PIFs plug-in. There's also VLAN support for those with ...

Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2
Last night, Amazon announced that they're adding a persistent storage capability to their EC2 service. To review, EC2 provides the ability to create virtual servers on the fly. These servers are a bit ephemeral, however. ...

Debian VPS Servers Now Available
With the virtual server solution powered by Parallels you can easily manage your virtual server (with full root access) from within the control panel. Want to reboot it or even stop it? How about a simple mouse click? ...

Frustrated virtual agencies look beyond Second Life
Linden Lab enjoys strong fundamentals, including growing demand for hosting virtual land on its servers, its core business. Company founder Philip Rosedale has repeatedly said Linden operates in the black. But as MDCs steer marketing ...

Pano Logic Expands Virtualization Offering, Adds Support for WAN ...
Hosting virtual desktops on servers enables IT departments to eliminate the PC for portions of their userbase, thereby significantly reducing help desk support costs,” said Michael Rose, an IDC research analyst covering virtualization ...

When virtual servers play havoc
I was just imagining if I was a security admin responsible for a large block of EC2 virtual servers. As part of that, maybe the use of these blocks of servers is similar to a class lab whereby students get to install and do anything ...

HP Updates HP-UX, Introduces Four New Operating Environments
The Virtual Server OE, meanwhile, has Virtual Server Environment, HP’s virtualization environment for its Unix servers. The latest release of HP-UX 11i v3 Update 2 also delivers improved performance. According to HP’s announcement, ...

Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play?
There's also an issue with using EC2 virtual machines for your database servers -- Amazon says that when a virtual machine crashes, all the data managed by it disappears, so virtual machine crash = hard drive crash. ...