Tag: Virtual Machine

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Daniel Gustafsson has done some terrific work on using NSS as an alternative TLS library to OpenSSL for PostgreSQL. I’ve done some work making that build and run on Windows. Daniel recently asked how to get a working NSS on Windows to use for development, and this blog is about that process.First you need to start with a clean Windows environment. The simplest way is a new virtual machine. Microsoft provides time limited images that can be used with VirtualBox, or you can use a cloud provider. In my case I used a machine running on Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Is your business looking to increase reliability and efficiency for infrastructure through load balancer monitoring in 2020? Whether its internal employees or potential customers visiting your site to find text, downloads, application data, images, or video, all of these assets are sitting on several cloud servers waiting to be requested. In some cases, websites can have dozens to millions of simultaneous users, and all of their requests must return the correct data quickly and reliably, otherwise, user confidence degrades, traffic declines, and with it goes revenue. Load balancers are pivotal in properly distributing the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Auston Li. Azure Arc is a preview service that enables users to create and attach Kubernetes clusters both inside and outside of Azure. Azure Arc also enables the user to manage Windows and Linux machines outside of Azure the same way native Azure Virtual Machines are managed. To monitor these Azure Arc enabled clusters and servers, you can use Azure Monitor the same way you would use it for the Azure resources. With Azure Arc, the Kubernetes clusters and servers are given a full-fledged Azure Resource ID and managed identity, enabling various scenarios that simplifies ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. Across the globe, businesses are emerging into a new normal, eager to restart or rebuild, but still operating in uncertain times. Optimizing costs and redirecting the spend to where it matters most is as important as ever, and many companies see the cloud as a way to control costs, build resilience, and accelerate time to market. Customers choose Azure for a variety of reasons, but one of the main reasons is to lower their costs. What more could you do if you could save up to 80 percent or more on your ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mark Russinovich. “When I first kicked off this Advancing Reliability blog series in my post last July, I highlighted several initiatives underway to keep improving platform availability, as part of our commitment to provide a trusted set of cloud services. One area I mentioned was fault injection, through which we’re increasingly validating that systems will perform as designed in the face of failures. Today I’ve asked our Principal Program Manager in this space, Chris Ashton, to shed some light on these broader ‘chaos engineering’ concepts, and to outline Azure examples of how we’re already applying ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers running workloads on other clouds, like Azure or GCP, can increase resilience and meet compliance requirements by using AWS as their disaster recovery site. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery provides an easy cross-cloud solution for replicating and recovering workloads from other cloud providers to AWS. It automatically converts your source machines so that they boot and run natively on AWS.In this blog post, I show you how to use CloudEndure Disaster Recovery to build a DR site on AWS if your primary workload is on Azure. I will build connectivity between Azure and AWS according to CloudEndure ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Organizations today are changing how they run their businesses to ensure safety and efficiency. As we work closely with our customers, their top priorities include optimizing business costs, scaling for a remote workforce, and ensuring business continuity. As a result, cloud migration remains a priority and partners play a critical role. To support your cloud migration projects, we are committed to solutions that optimize costs, scale efficiencies, and bring unmatched security and compliance. We have amazing offers, like Azure Hybrid Benefit, reserved instances, and free extended security updates to help our customers save ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Thanks to the new utilities barman-cloud-restore and barman-cloud-wal-restore introduced in Barman 2.11, it is now possible to execute the recovery of a PostgreSQL instance using a full backup previously executed using barman-cloud-wal-archive and barman-cloud-backup commands. Let’s discover together how to implement this in the following article.It is worth noting that in Barman 2.11, all cloud utilities for Barman are now in a separate package called barman-cli-cloud. Requirements 1. barman-cli-cloud package2. A PostgreSQL instance3. An AWS S3 bucket4. A second virtual machine where to execute the restore In this article, we will test barman-cli-cloud functionalities in a virtual ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. VMIE enables you to easily import virtual machine images from your existing environment to AWS and export them back to your on-premises environment. This offering allows you to leverage your existing investments in the virtual machines that you have built to meet your IT security, configuration management, and compliance requirements by converting your VM into an Amazon Machine Image, which you can use to run Amazon EC2 instances.   EC2 VM Import/Export supports Windows, Amazon Linux, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, Debian, Oracle Linux, and Fedora operating systems. For more information on VMIE and supported ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides and Steve Swoyer. Microservices seem to be everywhere. Scratch that: talk about microservices seems to be everywhere. And that’s the problem. Thinkers as dissimilar as Plato, Robert Boyle, and Keith Richards tend to agree about one thing: Talk is cheap. So we wanted to determine to what extent, and how, O’Reilly subscribers are empirically using microservices. In other words, how long have people been using them? What are they using them for? Are they having success? If so, what kinds of benefits are they seeing? What can we learn from their failures? Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. So we ... Read More