Choosing a Central Logging Tool: 5 Important Features, 6 Optional Tools
This post is brought to you by Ravello R&D based on our own internal best practices and lessons learned. We need to continually monitor our servers, production and dev environments. As our...
View ArticleUsing Red Hat Satellite to Bootstrap Environments with Ravello and AWS EC2
With the introduction of cloud-init integration into Ravello and the ability to pass code into your VM via the the Ravello UI, the possibility for boot time customization and configuration have become...
View ArticleCloud Networking: IP Broadcasting and Multicasting in Amazon EC2
This post is the second part in a two-part series on cloud networking. In the first part, I talked about layer 2 (L2) networking. We saw that in today’s public infrastructure clouds, there is very...
View ArticleUnderstanding Cloud Migrations – Based On A True Story
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Ravello Cleaner: How We Saved More Than 50% of Our Cloud Costs
Brought to you by Ravello R&D, this post is about how we use DevOps best practices and innovate internally to optimize our own dev & test operations in the cloud. The Ravello Cloud Cleaner was...
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Avoid 911 Production Upgrade Failures: Painless Upgrade Tests
Software product upgrades are nothing new. But with the spread of continuous development and continuous integration they are becoming more and more frequent. Typically, the upgrade process takes one...
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Multi-node OpenStack RDO IceHouse on AWS/EC2 and Google
OpenStack is awesome. But, as anybody who has played with it will tell you, its installation procedure can be daunting. Maybe you’ve always wanted to play with and never found the time? Or maybe you...
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Virtual Training Labs in The Cloud –“Automatic Automation” for Software...
Training classes for complex applications are a challenge to manage and operate. They are typically ad-hoc in nature – the class schedule, number of students, venue (on premises or online), and...
View ArticleThe economic (in)feasibility on-premise dev/test
In today’s environment of agile software development, it is critical to make sure that your developers and test engineers have as many test environments as they need in order to develop the best...
View ArticleBeware of HTTP Request Automatic Retries
In this post I’ll discuss a recent incident we encountered due to surprising behavior of the HTTP protocol. I’ll describe the problem, the analysis process, how we solved the problem, and some...
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How We Auto-test Ravello Platform Upgrades
Following a recent post from our VP of R&D, Gil Hoffer, discussing the importance of upgrade testing, we decided to share with you how we use our system to perform upgrade testing for our own...
View ArticleEnterprise DevOps Powered By Nested Virtualization
In today’s competitive and globalized markets, the ability to quickly roll out new products and services is an important differentiator. But for enterprises, it is just not feasible to adopt DevOps by...
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HP LoadRunner Load Testing Enterprise Applications on AWS & Google with...
Most enterprise application development teams use testing tools like HP LoadRunner to perform user load testing for their applications. This post discusses how you can a build a load testing lab on...
View ArticleNew AWS vCenter Plug-in – The Good, Bad and Ugly
The new Amazon Web Services vCenter plug-in sounds like a boon for VMware admins looking to use additional capacity from AWS. One can provision new VMs, manage additional capacity and even convert...
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Virtual Bare Metal: DevStack Multi Node on EC2
In my previous post I wrote about installing the RDO OpenStack distribution in Ravello. Installing OpenStack in an on-demand, cloud-based infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 is ideal for development and...
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The Cloud and the Infrastructure Independent Application
In a recent briefing about the Ravello product, a prospective customer brought up an internal requirement that all their applications be developed as infrastructure-independent applications. In other...
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Ravello Arms Deutsche Telekom with On-Demand Cloud Flexibility
Deutsche Telekom AG is the world’s fourth largest wireless service provider by market capitalization in the global telecommunications industry. The Telecom giant operates businesses worldwide,...
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Podcast With Ravello’s Co-Founder: VIrtualization, The Cloud and the Application
In this podcast Shlomo Swidler, a known cloud thought leader, interviews Ravello’s President and Co-Founder, Mr. Benny Schneider. We invite you to listen and learn more about the history and...
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How to Run Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with KVM on EC2
In my previous blogs, I've been talking about our nested SVM support. Nested SVM allows a you to run a hypervisor like ESXi or KVM inside a Virtual Machine in the cloud. In this blog I'll show you how...
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My Virtual Way: Getting the VCA-DCV VMware Certification without Hardware
I work at Ravello Systems. Understanding data center virtualization is non-negotiable. I get virtualization. I get the Cloud. It’s all good. But then again, I work at Ravello Systems. Most of the...
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