VMware vSphere™ 4 Wins Grand Prize and Best of Interop Award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization Category

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced that VMware vSphere™ 4 was named the Best of Interop 2009 Grand Prize Winner and won the Best of Interop Award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category. The awards were announced last month at Interop Las Vegas 2009.

“We are extremely pleased with the positive reception that VMware vSphere 4 has already received from customers and partners and this recognition from Interop is another impressive achievement,” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer and senior vice president of R&D, VMware. “These Best of Interop awards underscore our continued leadership in the virtualization industry and recognize the unparalleled efficiency, control, and choice  that VMware vSphere 4 delivers to IT.”

VMware vSphere 4, which became generally available last month, is a quantum leap forward in helping customers transform IT into a dynamic, flexible service, while dramatically lowering costs.  With VMware vSphere 4, customers can bring the benefits of cloud computing to their datacenters, creating a practical approach to their own private clouds – cloud computing infrastructures that span internal IT with external cloud service providers.

“This year was an exciting year for the Best of Interop Awards because there were so many strong contenders in every category,” said Art Wittmann, Judge for the 2009 Best of Interop Awards and Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics.  “VMware and each of the category winners have truly demonstrated the essence of innovation and deserve this recognition for their contributions to the industry.”

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To all the dads out there and all the soon-to-be dads, Happy Father’s Day!

I went ahead and upgraded the memory allocation on our VPS. I ran some optimization scripts and they said that my settings are fine but we were still using up too much swap. So I just went ahead and upped the ram.

Kudos to Alan for letting me know that we were down. MySQL ran out of memory and required a hard reboot. I’ll have to optimize SQL and Apache to keep the usage down or otherwise I’ll have to upgrade the plan on this host.

[Update]

I’ve updated apache2 and mysql settings with some tweaks. If the server still goes down, I’ll most likely upgrade the ram on the server.

[Update2]

The continuing saga against swap file overage is still being fought. I’m using a couple of MySQL optimizers to try to keep things tidy. You may still see the website coming down for the next few hours.

Visit the PPC Forums!

I will still have to fix the themes for the blog and the forums and also tidy up everything else but at the very least we’re back online now.

I still have a lot of things to do with this. It’s a good thing my leave was approved at work. I’ll be able to concentrate on things here.

On another note, I’ve enabled the daily and weekly backups of our current host. No more repeat of the VAserv fiasco.

I’ve uploaded the November backup and upgraded its database to the latest version. The last part is to let the dns propagate for forum.pinoypc.net and then install a clean version using the restored database. Unfortunately, I’ve run out of time again and need to get ready to go to my day job.

I’ll get this finished over the weekend. I’m sorry for the long wait.

Props to Russell (jorussic) for sending this in. Check the Microwarehouse website later for more details. I may go there to get a P&S digital camera for the missus.

Well, I just got home from the night shift at work and once I wake up I’ll restore the November 2008 backup and then proceed to upgrade it to the latest version of Simple Machines Forum. Since we’re restoring the backup, it’s better not to shift platforms. At least for now.

I told Rus Foster that I’m willing to wait as long as it takes for them to recover the server but one of his staff replied saying that it’s corrupted and beyond restoration. They’re pushing me to reprovision a new server. Well, we’re on slicehost.com now and so far, so good. I will not touch anything associated with VAserv anymore.

Update:

Globe isn’t doing me any favors. I’m having  a hard time moving a 200mb compressed database ~_~.

Update 2:

Lel, I made a n00b mistake with contexts for the public directory where the http files get served so I made a 1 hour detour in trying to upload the backup. I’ll leave it uploading while I’m at work tonight then work on it again tomorrow. Sorry for the additional delay, guys.

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