In the new rPath rBuilder flash UI the “resign from appliance” button is disabled so you need to either switch to the old UI or go directly to the old project membership page
http://www.rpath.org/project/-short-project-name-/members
for example
http://www.rpath.org/project/asteriskplus/members
There is now a choice of three different editions of rPath rBuilder:
rPath have written a page summarising the differences between each !
The ibm.com developerworks cloud series explores the major types of cloud services and related software that you can use to build Web-scale systems.
In Part 1, learn how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide basic services you can use to deploy and run your applications. The article also discusses how Eucalyptus can be used as an infrastructure to create public or private clouds.
In Part 2, learn about AppScale and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing. Explore the features and architecture of this virtual infrastructure. It’s a great way to test your Google App Engine applications on your local resources or virtualized cloud infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus.
The 6 Musts of Intelligent System Automation
“This (free-of-charge) (e)book (from rPath) provides a clear, actionable, step-by-step guide to intelligent automation that embeds knowledge, eliminates routine operations, and frees up strategic resources. It shows how IT can deliver the seemingly contradictory needs for control and flexibility, for stability and change, for better service and cost reduction.”
Andi Mann, VP of research, systems and storage management,
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother).
Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use.
However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would no longer qualify as personal use.
OVH Virtual Rack brings together several virtual servers (no matter how many or there physical location in our datacentre) and connect to a virtual switch within the same private network. Your servers can communicate privately and securely between them (in a dedicated VLAN).
VMware Player 3 (finally) auto recompiles kernel modules after you have updated/upgraded your linux kernel !
AWS Management Console Adds Support for Elastic Load Balancing
AWS has added support for Elastic Load Balancing to the AWS Management Console. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Now you can use a simple, point-and-click web interface to create and configure load balancers for your Amazon EC2 applications.
Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com
VMware ESXi 4.0 is certified to run on a broad range of 64-bit hardware. Check the Hardware Compatibility List to ensure that the server model you intend to use is certified to run VMware ESXi 4. For 32-bit hardware support, download the previous version, VMware ESXi 3.5.