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How we setup high availability in oVirt cloud system

by Visakh S | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt

Just a couple of days back, Reddit went down for a few hours due to database errors. Some Redditors ranted in Twitter, some others joked about the downtime, but Reddit retained its loyal following. Now, imagine this happening to a brokerage site such as Wells Fargo,...

How to backup and restore oVirt engine

by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt

In our recent post 'How to configure VM backups in oVirt', we saw how we configured a VM backup system for a cloud service provider. We further went ahead and expanded the backup system with oVirt engine backups. oVirt engine manages the centralized configuration of...

How to setup resource scaling in oVirt cloud systems

by Visakh S | Dec 15, 2015 | ovirt, Server Administration

Today, most online applications are hosted in cloud systems. Unlike traditional dedicated servers, cloud systems offer users the ability to quickly scale up or down CPU, memory, disk space or bandwidth on the go. Users love the ability to pay for just enough resources...

How to configure VM backups in oVirt

by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 15, 2015 | ovirt

People often assume that backups are not important in a cloud setup due to its automatic fail-over feature. Automatic fail-overs migrate Virtual machines in a cloud from one hypervisor to another, when any one hypervisor goes down. But this fail-over feature does not...

How to setup quick VM provisioning using templates on oVirt cloud hosting systems

by Visakh S | Dec 15, 2015 | ovirt

Cloud users love the ability to simply go to a portal, define their application requirements, and instantly get a server ready for their new application. The idea that you can get a fully configured server instantly, with uptime and availability guarantees, has been...

DevOps for Testing – How we accelerated projects using automation and virtualization

by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 12, 2015 | Server Administration

"This code works fine on my computer, but not on the live server!", programmers often complain to IT system administrators. This happens when the environments in these servers do not match. As a result, projects often get delayed. To avoid compatibility issues,...