ExaGrid recently published a video on its YouTube channel, explaining in few minutes how its technology works. If you need further details, and have a look at some tests I made, you can take a look at my previous articles: #ExaGrid: an overview #ExaGrid: unboxing and start-up #ExaGrid and #Veeam…
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News from the virtualized world.
[EN] Building a Low Cost SAN with StarWind 5.7
Received and posted as is: Live webinar on Wednesday, November 9 3:00 PM GMT / 10:00 AM EDT Join Anatoly Vilchinsky as he demonstrates simple step-by-step instructions for building your own SAN or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86 hardware or even a repurposed server running…
[EN] #Veeam Backup & Replication 6 preview: Advanced Replication
Second article about the new features of Veeam Backup & Replication 6, today we talk about Advanced Replication. Replication has been always one of the strenght point of Veeam, even if sometimes underestimated. Using inexpensive standby hosts, delta syncs and usage of dissimilar storage (has also VMware did in SRM…
[EN] #Veeam Backup 5: hotfix supporting vSphere 5
Veeam has published an article on its blog, to let us know of a new hotfix to officially support vSphere 5, when using Veeam in SAN mode. Hotfix is available only through support, and it’s not directly downloadable from their website; here the last available verison is still 5.0.2. As…
[EN] Photos from Copenhagen
During the three days activities were running one after the other with no break. Even if I had some spare time to take a look around, I got only my cellphone with me so I did not so many photos. Anyway, in this flickr link you’ll see the photos I…
[EN] vExpert Spotlight: Luca Dell’Oca
It’s not a common thing to appear in the VMware official blog, but thanks to the great work of the team managing vExperts awards, VMware started some months ago to publish regularly the profiles of the awarded people. Last friday was my turn, and this gave my a great pride….
[EN] #VMworld #BCO3334: SRM Future Product Directions: Cloud-Based DR
This session, hosted by Bryan Evans (Product Manager, BCDR, VMware, Inc.) and Craig McLellan (CTO, Hosting.com) has been focused on the evolution of SRM. We heard of the new functions of the 5.0 version (vSphere Based Replication, Automatic FailBack…) as some of the new ones we are supposed to have…
(EN) #VMworld Europe 2011: #BCO2874 vSphere High Availability 5.0 and SMP Fault Tolerance – Technical Overview
I attendeed my first VMworld Europe 2011 session this morning. First part was basically a recap of the new HA, completely rewritten in version 5.0. The speaker, Keith Farkas from VMware, first showed how HA has changed in the last vSphere release: switch from AAH to FDM, no more primary/secondary…