I had a need this week for a quick-and-easy IO benchmarking tool and decided to create a Docker container to achieve my goals. The Docker container itself is rather simple and is available for use at your leisure. The Docker container is based off of Ubuntu latest, installs the FIO package and grabs a simple test file from my website […]
As noted in the previous post, I had to custom build an ISO file that included Mesos 0.23.0 in order for the nodes to join the Mesos cluster I had deployed using Big Data Extensions. There was no forking of the Photon OS code off of GitHub required, it was just a matter of building the ISO. In order to […]
VMware Photon TP2 was released on August 27. The new version contains native support for running Mesos and therefore should have allowed the Photon OS to run as a Mesos slave immediately after installation. I would like to think my earlier blog post detailing how to deploy Mesos on-top of Photon influenced this functionality. Download the ISO here. After conversations […]
Andrew Nelson and Tom Twyman spoke on Wednesday morning about Apache Mesos and Marathon at VMworld. During their session they showed a demo of a cluster deployment — although they experienced a couple technical difficulties. The session covered the overall basics of how to operationalize Cloud Native Applications using Apache Mesos, Mesosphere Marathon and Docker on a VMware private cloud. […]
Monday was my first day at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco, CA and it was outstanding! I followed the Cloud Native Apps track throughout the day and it kicked off with a bang with the announcements around Photon Platform and vSphere Integrated Containers. I attended the following sessions today: STO5443 Case Study of Virtualized Hadoop on VMware Software Designed Storage Technologies […]
