Features I am missing on Amazon RDS

November 1, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Features I am missing on Amazon RDS

Great service Amazon RDS. It’s on my to-do list to evaluate it from a performance-wise perspective. The evaluation is a must as AWS is known to have steady but slow storage performance, I wonder if the RDS team did tweak their volumes. But this is not the subject of the post:the fact is, there are two...
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Why I think Amazon RDS is not hitting MS Azure under the belt

October 30, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

While emotional thinking may feel right, it’s rarely the  way to see clarity. Chill down a bit and be rational: things will start look different, decisions will have better outcome. On October 26th I read the announce Amazon releases RDS, their managed MySQL service and the...
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Cloudcamp Edinburgh, the pictures

September 30, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

A bit late but better than never: the pictures of the CloudCamp in Edinburgh of September the 23rd. What I like of Edinburgh is the no-nonsense of the people there and the CloudCamp follows! I have seen interesting things, more on one of next posts. The big...
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VCB error: Backup snapshot already exists

September 30, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

VMware VCB works by creating snapshots of VMs in quiescing state. If, while attempting to backup a VM, the following error shows up: ..  'vcbMounter' 3076465472 error] Error: Backup snapshot already...
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DNS + HTTP, intriguing

September 21, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi

Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex This is the title Dave Winer (the talkative inventor of RSS) has given to one of his most recent posts, where,...
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vSphere: Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration

September 17, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
vSphere: Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration

Cannot Power xxxx. host on: Invalid virtual machine configuration. This error is a nice “catch all” and leads to configuration files corruption, improper snapshotting of VMs and other horror stories. My...
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