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Exclusive Video: Exploring the Guts of the Nutanix Architecture
February 12, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Recently, during ActualTech Media’s first Road Show, David Davis and I had the opportunity to meet with a variety of technology companies pioneering new ways to do IT. Over the past couple of years, Nutanix has demonstrated to the market … Read More
Just Released! Free eBook From Nutanix & Scott D. Lowe
February 11, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
I’m incredibly proud to announce the availability of the Software-Defined Storage for Dummies eBook, now available for free download.
Developed in partnership with Nutanix, a leading player in the software-defined space, this book showcases the possibilities of a software-led world … Read More
Introduction to Openstack Storage Systems
February 4, 2014 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 4
Openstack is a word on many people’s lips.
The Project is just over three years old, but you can feel how it has already gained mindshare and convinced important companies and people to get behind it. It’s evident from the … Read More
How To Deploy VMware Cloud Automation Center (vCAC)
January 22, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
VMware’s Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a tool that enables end users to consume the services that reside in your company’s data center while allowing administrators to maintain control over this consumption. In other words, vCAC brings to the enterprise … Read More
How to Install VMware Log Insight 1.5
January 3, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
Last year VMware released their solution for log management and analytics for both hosts and guests within your environment. Log Insight collects real time log events, such as critical errors or authentication issues, from physical and virtual machines. It then … Read More
Managing your Virtual DataCenter – 4 Key Strategies
December 20, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA
While recently studying for VMware Advanced Professional Datacenter Design exam, I had the chance to study documents in the VCAP-DCD blueprint. Some of these documents provide insights into effective strategies to use before, during, and after deploying a Virtual Infrastructure.
An Introduction to vSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache (vFRC)
December 17, 2013 | Marco Broeken 3
vSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache is a brand new feature which is part of vSphere 5.5. Key Features:
- Hypervisor-based software-defined flash storage tier solution.
- Aggregates local flash devices to provide a clustered flash resource for VM and vSphere hosts consumption (Virtual … Read More
Classification and Detection of Zombie Virtual Machines … Which tools should I use?
December 11, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA
In this post I want to discuss what makes an Orphan or a Zombie in a VMware environment. I also want to introduce some of my favourite tools for detecting these malodorous fiendish creatures which can wreak havoc within your … Read More
Video Blog – You Too Can Be a Data Protection Super Hero
December 8, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
This week Jason Buffington of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) posted a nice video blog (I really like this format). In the blog, Jason talks about how non-IT people tend to have very high expectations of the IT group, envisioning a … Read More
Coho Data Brings SDN to SDS for a Killer Combination
November 26, 2013 | Chris Wahl 1
Coho Data, one of the newly unveiled start-ups focused on providing scale-out storage, sends their CTO Andy Warfield to tackle a group of cutting-edge tech bloggers and analysis during Storage Field Day 4. The results were spectacular – getting into … Read More
Nimble Storage’s Scale To Fit and Proactive Wellness Features Simplify IT
November 14, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
This week, Gestalt IT hosted a number of bloggers and analysts at Storage Field Day 4. One of the companies that we visited was Nimble Storage, a soon-to-be public that was actually launched at a previous Tech Field Day event. … Read More
VMware Metro Storage Cluster Explained – Part 2: The Potential Solution
November 14, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 2
In part 1 of this series, I discussed a typical dual-site scenario where storage replication is used to synchronously mirror a volume or LUN object between data centers.
The goal is to mitigate the risk of data center failure. While … Read More
VMware Metro Storage Cluster Explained – Part 1: The Challenge
November 14, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 3What is a Metro Storage Cluster?
First and foremost, vMSC stands for vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, that is, a vSphere HA/DRS cluster stretched over distance. After attending Duncan Epping & Lee Dilworth’s presentation at VMworld 2013 on vSphere Metro Storage … Read More
Determining Storage Performance Needs is Part Science and Part Art
November 13, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
This morning, I had the pleasure of listening to Greg Goelz, CEO of CloudByte, as he discussed the products provided by his company with the delegates from Gestalt IT’s Storage Field Day 4. As is generally pretty well known, storage … Read More
The Phony War Continues – Shooting Blanks
October 28, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 5
This article is in response to a recent Microsoft Technet post, published here which is a rebuttal of the content in my last post, entitled “Calling out the Phony War: vSphere and Hyper-V”. You can find that post here.
In … Read More
Calling Out the Phony War: vSphere & Hyper-V
October 22, 2013 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 24
With the release of vSphere 5.5, it’s inevitable there will be a lot of blogging by vendors comparing their products to vSphere. That is expected and not surprising. It’s the job of vendor “Evangelists” to do this.
Apologies for the … Read More
Killer Infographics: Download Microsoft’s Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster Series
October 16, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
For years, really good people at Microsoft have spent enormous time creating and making available architectural posters for a number of the company’s products. I’ve always really liked them as they provide a really quick, at-a-glance view of what makes … Read More
High Availability in vSphere 5.5 Series – VMware vSphere App HA
September 27, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA 2
From a traditional vSphere HA standpoint, the jump from Sphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 has not brought with it major enhancements. Host monitoring and virtual machine monitoring have stayed pretty much the same in this minor version upgrade.
However, with … Read More
NSX: VMware’s Network Hypervisor Explained
September 23, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 3
At VMworld 2013, VMware announced important updates to their flagship product line (see my post Top 10 Most Important Features of vSphere for more info). A major part of the VMworld keynotes were dedicated to the new VMware NSX. I didn’t cover NSX … Read More
Lauren Malhoit: My VMworld 2013 Impressions
August 31, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
Last week I attended the 10th annual VMworld, the mantra of the week was “Defy Convention.” I thought I’d compile some of my takeaways to compliment David’s VMworld day one and day two wrap-up posts.
I’m not sure that’s exactly … Read More
VMWorld 2013: Understanding vCloud And vSphere Editions
August 30, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1
At VMworld 2013 this week, VMware announced the latest editions of vSphere 5.5, vCloud Director 5.5, and the vCloud Suite. Those announcements contained major new features – some which are included in existing editions and some that are new products, sold separately.
The Top 10 Most Important Features in VSphere 5.5
August 30, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1
VMware announced important updates to their flagship product line this week – vCloud Suite – which includes the leading type-1 hypervisor, VMware vSphere. There is a LOT to get excited about with these announcements. After all, VMware wouldn’t wait to announce vSphere 5.5 … Read More
VIDEO: Free Data Protection for Free VMware vSphere ESXi from Unitrends
August 28, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1Announced at VMworld today, Unitrends released a new version of their popular Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) that can protect the free vSphere Hypervisor (formerly known as free ESXi).
This is unique because most virtualization backup tools don’t support ESXi … Read More
INFOGRAPHIC: 10 Years of VMworld
August 26, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 8
With VMware’s 10th annual VMworld conference starting August 25, we break down the attendee and sponsor numbers graphically. Get the bird’s eye view of VMworld here…Read More
Clearing the Confusion – vSphere Virtual Cores, Virtual Sockets, and Virtual CPU (vCPU)
August 20, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 11
This is a topic that I have been confused on more than once. I would read the help documentation and the VMware KB article, thought I understood it and later say “wait, what?”
First, let’s look at a host…
Analyzing … Read More
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