Virtualization Changes Everything
Not really a new tool. Former Quest and VKernel technologies merge within Foglight for Virtualization Free Edition a bunch of cool tools that are bundled together in a new name: Foglight for Virtualization. and yes, there is a FREE edition. The Free Edition contains 6 utilities where Snapshot Explorer is newly added: Foglight for Virtualization, Free Edition Snapshot Explorer detects all snapshots, including orphaned snapshots, to avoid problems with performance and capacity. … [Read more...]
Today Veeam announced 2 more features in flagship Backup & Replication v7.0. The new version now contains 9 new awesome features: Enhanced Backup & Recovery for vCloud Director Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs. vSphere Web Client Monitor backups and backup … [Read more...]
10ZiG announced their first WE8 Thin Client, the 5818v. This device is using a new D2550 dual core Intel Atom Processor and therefor has a extremely low power consumption. The 5818v comes with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 16GB of local storage, 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet and Intel GMA 3650 graphics. This extremely small form factor WE8 Unit, the 5818v, offers dual monitor support as standard, is VESA mountable, and has optional internal 812.11b/g/n wireless. After unboxing and powering on the … [Read more...]
Presenter 1: NexGen Storage Yesterday Fusion-IO acquired NextGen Storage. Both CEOs are here talking to us right now! Presenter 2: Starboard Storage Starboard Storage has 3PB under management. Handling 4,000 AD users at a single site 25% of customers use FC, 70% use NAS, 90% use block. Starboard announced today version 3.2 of the Starboard OS along with new Starboard AC2000, AC4000 and AC4500 hybrid storage systems. The new AC Series systems include CacheControl, which delivers up to … [Read more...]
Prensenter 1: Exablox Today’s first presenter is Exablox. Exablox OneBlox is the industry’s first scale-out object-based appliance that is accessible with Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) network protocols for organizations of all sizes. Exablox was in development for the last 2 years. Today at Storage Field Day 3 they are out of stealth mode. Exablox, One System = Cloud management and Scale out object storage appliance. Exablox Design … [Read more...]
Storage Field Day is an Gestalt IT event that brings together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. These independent thought leaders so called delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. I'm so delighted to have been invited to attend another Storage Field Day Storage Field Day 3 Details The next event I’m attending is Storage Field Day 3 (April 24 thru 26 April). You can … [Read more...]
Along with the release of NexentaStor 3.1.4, Nexenta Systems today officially released the NFS VAAI beta plugin for VMware vSphere 5.x via the community NexentaStor.org forums. VAAI-NAS is still not widely supported in the NAS world, and of those that do, not all support all the primitives. You can search the VMware Compatibility Guide for vendors that are VAAI-NAS certified. Quick Tutorial Here’s a quick tutorial to install the agent in NexentaStor and the plugin in VMware ESXi. ** … [Read more...]
As a new Tintri Partner and Tintri Certified System Engineer number #101, I decided to take a closer look at Tintri Storage. Tintri granted me access to their partner lightning lab and I got some hours to spend on this amazing piece of storage hardware to play around and see first hand what it was all about. Being one of the first companies with VM-aware storage, Tintri is ahead of the game by far. VMware is also pushing the adoption of VM-aware storage with their upcoming virtual … [Read more...]
PHD Virtual Technologies has announced today that it has acquired VirtualSharp Software a Virginia-based provider of Automated Disaster Recovery software for virtualized environments and private and public clouds. With the acquisition of VirtualSharp, PHD Virtual delivers transformational technology for virtual backup and disaster recovery assurance providing the easiest, most affordable solutions for data protection and business continuity, automatically certifying achievement of Recovery … [Read more...]
I was struggling with Auto Deploy recently. I wanted to use the Auto Deploy GUI on my lab environment which is currently version 5.1 and this was not YET supported… Just found out there is a brand new 5.1 version which you can select from the dropdown: Features The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some … [Read more...]
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