Virtualization Changes Everything
a while ago VMware released a new set of VMware Icons and Diagrams in the traditional PowerPoint format. Maish from http://technodrone.blogspot.nl/ converted them into usable VMware Visio shapes and released a new set. What's New? The images are now Flat Vector images – which improves the quality and allows for easier image resizing. The stencils are now better organized. All VMware Icons have a standard size – and standard connection points. Build your own stencils – are … [Read more...]
RES HyperDrive is a secure, on-premises technology designed for today’s mobile workforce. Developed to address the expanding security requirements of your IT department, but meet the ease of use, cross-platform and simplicity requirements of a new generation of IT consumers, RES HyperDrive leverages your own data center or private cloud to provide rapid data access to users, regardless of location and device. Watch RES HyperDrive in Action Res Hyperdrive in action We see more and more … [Read more...]
Today Veeam released the 6.1 version of their flagship product Backup & Replication. Download here New key Features of 6.1: There is a FREE Edition! – Capable of doing Full Backups of running VMs, restore whole VM/VM File/Guest File, compression, NO incrementals. VeeamZIP Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP™. Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V. New … [Read more...]
VMware released version 5.1 of their Desktop Virtualization product VMware View. VMware View 5.1 delivers important features and enhancements that improve the performance, security, management, and flexibility of virtual desktops. This release of VMware View adds the following new features and support. also available: VMware Horizon Application Manager 1.5 and a public beta program for the Project Octopus cloud data synchronization and collaboration service. … [Read more...]
Veeam Backup & Recovery 6.5 free edition UniTrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition (Protect 4 VMs For Free) or Unitrends NFR Edition (2 sockets and 2 application-enabled servers FREE) Trilead VM Explorer Free VMware & Hyper-V backup (max 2 hosts) NexentaStor Community Edition Free 18Tb ZFS Virtual Storage Appliance VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor - Virtual Health Monitor offers free real-time performance monitoring solution without limitations VM Aware Database Performance - … [Read more...]
I’m currently testing the beta of the new Starwind version 5.9 New Features and Improvements: High Aavailability Three active nodes for more availability. Deduplication Replication to remote iSCSI Target over WAN as an experimental feature. Data deletion support. Unused data blocks are overwritten by new actual data. 30% less memory usage (2MBs per 1GB of deduplicated storage on 4kb deduplication block). coming soon! Backup Plug-in for ESX virtual machines … [Read more...]
a While ago (feb2012) results came in from vSphere-land.com. I ended on place 149 of all 187 blogs participating I didn’t blog much last year. I expected worse… … [Read more...]
Traditional network isolation techniques such as IEEE 802.1Q VLAN provide 4096 LAN segments (via a 12-bit VLAN identifier) and may not provide enough segments for large cloud deployments. Cisco and a group of industry vendors are working together to address new requirements of scalable LAN segmentation as well as transporting virtual machines across a broader diameter. The underlying technology, referred to as Virtual Extensible LAN (or VXLAN), defines a 24-bit LAN segment identifier to provide … [Read more...]
Today i was at a client that ordered a new DELL R710 server with vSphere ESX 4 wich did not recognize the Intel Quad Port ET (82576) server adapter I have installed. To get the NIC to work, I needed to manually install the drivers for this NIC. The driver is located HERE. One downloaded, use a tool like Undisker to extract the files from the ISO. Use WinSCP to copy the extracted files to a directory on your ESX host. At this point you must put your server in maintenance mode. Using … [Read more...]
The VMware Infrastructure 3 Support Life Cycle Policy covers the software suites VMware Infrastructure 3 Starter, Standard and Enterprise Editions and includes the following products: VMware ESX VMware vCenter Server (formerly VirtualCenter Server) VMware VMotion VMware DRS VMware HA VMware Consolidated Backup VMware Virtual SMP VMware VC Agent VMware vStorage VMFS … [Read more...]
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