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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
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.
@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
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
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
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
Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 6.0
October 31, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
For all intents and purposes, the hypervisor has become the bare metal of the data center. When administrators make decisions as to how to support workloads, they are planning ways to carve resources from the overall virtual environment. Rarely are … 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
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.
How to Use vim-cmd to Power on vSphere VMs without Windows or the vSphere Client
October 27, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 2
Most of the time I run a VERY small vSphere lab comprised of just one host and a NAS, simply to keep the power requirements down and the electricity bill low. While I have a large UPS on the lab, … 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
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
Top 5 Most Overlooked Factors in VM Backups
September 19, 2013 | Rick Vanover, vExpert, MCITP, VCP
If there is one thing I’ve learned over the years, it is that there are plenty of things that can go wrong in the datacenter. While virtualization as given us incredible availability technologies, quick provisioning capabilities and excellent management tools; … Read More
Virtualization Pro of the Month: Josh Atwell
September 16, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Editor’s Note: Datacenter Virtualization engineer Josh Atwell is our Virtualization Pro of the Month for September. Josh is an avid community organizer and networker (and now) a contributing book author.
Josh is continually contributing to the virtualization community through lab testing, … Read More
Weekly Virtualization Link Round Up: 9/13/2013
September 13, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
This week saw a major storage play from a networking vendor, a storage play from a hypervisor vendor, and a war of words between two industry behemoths. Here are five stories I followed this week.
Movers & Shakers
Twitter going … Read More
Scott’s Friday Virtualization (& Smartwatch) Round Up: 9/6/2013
September 6, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
It’s been a busy post-VMworld week! In case you missed it, here on VirtualizationSoftware.com David posted his VMworld day one, two and three/four summaries (including videos), in addition to Lauren’s VMworld attendee takeaways.
My Reading List for the Week … Read More
David’s VMworld 2013 Day 3 & 4 Summary
September 3, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
To follow up on my last two VMworld 2013 posts (Day 1 and Day 2 Wrap-Up), let’s talk about what happened at days 3 and 4 of VMworld 2013!
Sessions
On Day 3 of VMworld, with no general session of the day, … 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
David’s VMworld 2013 Day Two Wrap-Up
August 30, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
Ed Note: Don’t Miss Day One’s Coverage Here.
On day 2 of VMworld 2013, the day started off with the general session/keynote with VMware COO Carl Eschenbach. Carl announced that the official number of VMworld attendees hit a record this … 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
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