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Free Data Protection and Virtualization Knowledge Videos From Veeam Backup Academy
March 24, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
I have to give Veeam some “kudos” (thats a good thing for those who aren’t familiar with the term) for their contributions to the virtualization community. Many vendors post whitepapers, blogs, videos, and podcasts about THEIR products but rarely do … Read More
Designing the Next Generation vSphere Storage Systems
March 6, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Today, most enterprises are using traditional storage arrays (NAS or SAN) with spinning disk from a big name storage company like EMC or NetApp. In fact, I would bet that the vast majority of those companies have even bought new … Read More
Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
March 5, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 3
There’s a nasty little irony in the world of IT. While business units seek IT’s assistance in creating and leveraging data-based metrics programs to provide deep level analytics into how to improve the business, IT, in many cases, has yet … Read More
Using vSphere Changed Block Tracking with EMC Networker Backup
March 3, 2014 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA 2
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature that has been around for a while within VMware virtual machines. CBT is available if you’re running ESX 4.0 or higher with hardware version 7 or higher on the VM. Basically, VMware can … 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
What Does the Unitrends and PHD Virtual Merger Mean for Customers?
January 20, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
If you haven’t heard, there has been some consolidation in the virtualization backup industry when Unitrends bought PHD Virtual. What does this mean for customers as well as the competition? Let’s find out.
Who Is Unitrends?
Unitrends offers data protection … Read More
Free Virtualization Admin Resources From Veeam
January 15, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Sure, most companies produce a lot of white paper and video content but much of that is self-serving as it’s only geared toward pushing you to buy their product. I have to give kudos to Veeam, on the other hand, … Read More
Microsoft Cloud OS Review: Datacenter Transformation Model
January 15, 2014 | Christopher Blay, MCSE, CCSK, CCDA
Enterprise IT infrastructure is rapidly changing with the introduction of tools for automating datacenter provisioning, monitoring and management. The modernization of traditional datacenters is putting pressure on the decision makers for both vendors and customers engrossed in these transformations. Out … Read More
vSphere 5.5 Application HA, Advanced App Monitoring explained
December 19, 2013 | Marco Broeken 4
Application HA is not a new feature in vSphere 5.5; it has actually has been around since vSphere 4.1. vSphere Application HA works with vSphere HA to recover from app failures and Reduces application downtime.
- Flexible: Protection for several … Read More
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
vSphere 5.5 VSAN: Introducing Your New Storage Vendor – VMware
December 15, 2013 | Marco Broeken 9
The best VMworld 2013 announcement for me has to be the new vSphere Virtual SAN (VSAN). I think this new vSphere feature will change the hyper-converged and storage market FOREVER. VMware created distributed storage on the VMkernel layer. Your right… … Read More
@Pernixdata CEO Poojan Kumar Interview at VMworld by @DavidMDavis on @VirtSoftware
December 11, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
In this interview, David Davis interviews CEO and Co-Founder of Pernixdata (@Pernixdata) live from VMworld 2013 in Barcelona. In the interview, Mr Kumar talks about how virtualization has changed the way modern data centers run and storage can’t seem to … 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
Win a Free vSphere Lab from @Veeam
December 9, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEDo you have a home lab? If you do, could it use some upgrades? Most of us are in either one of those two categories as we are either a) “between labs” or b) have a lab but it needs … 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
Will Virtualization & Cloud Lead to Fewer IT Job Opportunities?
December 3, 2013 | Eric Shanks, 2013 vExpert, VCP, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, CCNA Security 1
I typically try to write posts about how stuff works, or some cool tech, but something has been bothering me about the trends of cloud computing and am wondering if anyone else sees things moving in the same direction that … Read More
Zerto Virtual Replication Interviews with Josh Stenhouse at VMworld 2013
December 3, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Zerto is an award-winning hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-1 applications running in VMware vSphere. Providing enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) for both enterprise virtualized infrastructures as well as the public cloud, Zerto has been quickly replacing array-based replication … 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
Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform: Video Interviews with @ROIdude and @MSundling
November 25, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Winner of numerous innovation awards, the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is gaining in popularity. To learn more, I conducting two video interviews with Nutanix experts (and well known virtualization experts) – Steve Kaplan (@ROIDude) and Mattias Sundling (@MSundling) while at … Read More
Virtualization Pro of the Month: Paul Meehan
November 15, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Editor’s Note: Dublin, Ireland’s Paul Meehan is our Virtualization Pro of the Month for November. Paul is a freelance consultant and technical architect specializing in VMware, SAN Storage and Data Management solutions. He has recently started writing for us here … 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
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Unitrends Enterprise Backup
November 11, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1Lately, I’ve learned a lot about Unitrends as a company as well as an enterprise backup solution. To document what I’ve learned and help get the word out, I’ve created this blog post with the “Top 10 Things You … Read More
#VMworld 2013 Europe Interview with @RickVanover from @Veeam Software
October 30, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEWhile attending VMworld 2013 in Barcelona Spain, I was thankful for the chance to speak to the, one and only, Rick Vanover (@RickVanover on Twitter), Evangelist at Veeam Software. Rick is a prolific blogger and author from VirtualizationReview.com and other … Read More
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