In a VMware environment, there are three different storage layers that abstract physical disk from the storage up to the virtual machines (imagines are taken from a ESX 3 whitepaper, Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions): Every layer oganizes informations following its own logics, and many times these are not aligned with…
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[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…
VMware View and Microsoft VDA
I found this post on the VMware community I would like to share with you: Here is the question we posed to Alexander R. Vasilakos, West Region Lead, Telephone Partner Account Manager (TPAM) Microsoft Corporation powered by Tech Data: “I do not own a Microsoft OS license. I have a…
[EN] #Veeam Backup & Replication 6 preview: scalability
During VMworld Europe 2011, held in Copenhagen, I was able to see a preview of the new upcoming features of Veeam Backup & Replication 6. Besides the already known support for Hyper-V, the most important news are coming once again for the VMware platform. Here and in some following articles,…
VMware ESXCLI 5.0 Reference Poster
With the launch of ESXi 5.0, esxcfg has been dismissed in favor of esxcli (I talked about it here). VMware released a complete poster with all new commands, equivalences with the old ones, and other useful info, in a poster you can download here, print and bring with you.
#ExaGrid and #Veeam: the results
In the previous article, I set up ExaGrid in conjuction with Veeam to backup the servers in my test environment. Those “lab” is a production site of a customers, who kindly let me use ExaGrid on it. In this way, data grew and changed during the tests, giving me a…
#ExaGrid and #Veeam
One of the coolest features of ExaGrid is its capability of setting up specific algorithms on a given share we create on it, based on the backup software it is going to work with. In this way, a user can be sure he can take full advantage of every single…
VMworld, here I come!
I got confirmation I’m registered to the next VMworld, that will be held in Copenhagen 18-20 October (17 for Partners like us). I’ve created my session schedule, and I wrote down some of the stands I want to visit. An offer for those not coming to VMworld: would you like…