A Look at vCenter Integration with Storage Arrays
Typically, in large scale data center deployment and management, different components of a data center are managed by different system administrators. To get the provisioning or updating of instructions processed, certain iterations have to be followed by the admins. As data center surged towards cloud-managed, a need for having a single console emerged …
Overview of vSphere Web Client Storage Plugin
This article throws light on the advantages of using vSphere web client storage plugin to deal with data center storage. Also, this article talks about the overview on development and testing of vSphere storage plugin and what are prerequisites for development
EPaaS
EPaaS provides solutioning in the areas of Project Execution using various methodologies like Water-fall, Agile-Scrum etc. EPaaS provides project tracking and monitoring through various tools like Microsoft Project Plan, Agile scrum board, Sprint burn downs, and Product backlogs. EPaaS can have a team of certified project manager
Basics of vCenter Plugin Automation
vCenter plugins are additional features of the vCenter web client that aid in the management of vendor specific operations (on Storage, Networking and virtualization). These plugins are developed by third party developers to provide a vendor specific user interface in vCenter. For example, a Storage vendor can extend the vCenter web client interface
iSCSI Session, iSCSI Login and Connection Between Its Initiator and Target
This blog discusses iSCSI session, iSCSI login and the components required for a connection between iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target in detail. The previous blog from this series introduced the basics of iSCSI protocol. The group of TCP connections that link an initiator with a target form an iSCSI session. The purpose of the iSCSI login is to enable
Java9 With JShell
Although most of the programming languages tend to come and go, JAVA is one that’s here to stay. As one of the most popular and widely adopted languages with a high performance, scalable runtime and innovations towards the JDK, it has a large impact on the world’s computing infrastructure. The motive for evaluating Java9 is to make JDK more modular
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Test Automation Using Cucumber
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a software development process that has come out of the software engineering methodology of test-driven development (TDD). BDD (behavior-driven development) is largely facilitated through the use of a simple domain-specific language (DSL) using natural language constructs (e.g., English-like sentences)
Importance of Automation in QA Ecosystem for Rapid Product Release Cycle
Every product should go through quality assurance or testing, before going to market, to make sure that the product is developed as per expectations. This involves various testing phases such as build testing, smoke/sanity testing, feature testing, regression testing and sometimes products need to go through performance testing as well. All these phases help
Securing Docker Containers
Docker is a great technology which simplifies the development and deployment of distributed applications. While building dockerized applications, security at various points needs to be considered. Due to lack of CPU/Hypervisor, Docker security is fully implemented in Software. Let us look at all prominent security aspects of kernel and container applications
DevOps Trends and Predictions for 2017
We have reached the end of 2016. As 2017 comes into focus, let’s look back and try to analyze the world of DevOps during this past year. What were the challenges, trends, and what will be the future roadmap for this technology? DevOps undoubtedly was successful in changing the mindset of how organizations function. It was