Monday November 19, 2007 xVM launched
xVM was launched by Jonathan Schwartz, Rich Green, and Steve Wilson last week at Oracle Open World where it got quite a lot of press coverage including titles such as:
"Sun Wows the Crowd"
"Sun Commits $2 Billion to Virtualization" and
"Sun rises on xvm stategy".
I'm proud to be a small part of this, being involved in the management infrastructure used by xVM... it's great to see the spotlight come our way after all the hard work being done by our team... and going open-source with the great road-map we've got lined up is even better!
 | Want to see Steve Wilson, Vice President of xVM, demonstrating xVM Ops Center? |
 | At the same time we launched OpenxVM, the project to house all the xVM open-source projects, this is something I'm pretty busy with at the moment, since we're going through the process of open-sourcing our management infrastructure, the Common Agent Container, I'll be blogging more about this soon... |
( Nov 19 2007, 04:18:35 PM CET ) Permalink
keytool - backdating a self-signed certificate
Have you ever had to deal with clock-skew across machines? When distributing self-signed certificates to create a network of trust between machines, clock-skew can be a real problem if one machine thinks that the other machine's certificate isn't yet valid...
Here's a new feature in Java 7 that can help you to create self-signed certificates that are immune to this...
( Nov 19 2007, 03:20:28 PM CET ) Permalink
Monday November 12, 2007 Diving in at the deep end - testing scalability of the xVM Ops Center at TACC
xVM Ops Center is the software that we are busy building for managing data centers (yes, in the plural).
It needs to scale up to thousands and thousands of managed systems, spread across multiple geos.
( Nov 12 2007, 04:53:14 PM CET ) Permalink