Mount VMFS Datastore manually is sometimes necessary when working with DR plans. A volume that isn’t automatically mounted on the other side has to be mounted manually. Normaly SRM takes care of it. Also, sometimes when an existing VMFS volume is still present we have an option to keep an existing signature or choose to resignature. […]
Zerto Virtual Replication 4 Released
Zerto Virtual Replication 4 has been released. Together with latest VMware vSphere 6 support, the product has added new and useful functions and also got a “new coat” – A full HTML 5 based user interface. When I wrote about Zerto last time, they were preparing a new module which would allow to support different hypervisors at an almost-real […]
New Upcoming features from Veeam Management Pack v8 for System Center Operations Manager
The Veeam Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager is curently in pre-beta stage, but I was able to assist a presentation from Veeam showing upcoming features that will be packed in. Note that the management pack will also brings new support for VMware vSphere 6.0 environments as well. The admin will be able to […]
Atlantis Computing Launching All-Flash Hardware Appliance with up to 90% Lower cost
Atlantis Computing is one of the new actors of hyper-converged systems. If you don’t know Atlantis you might want to check one of my previous posts here or here as their offering I’m talking today is basically an extension on what they do at the software side. Their software product is called Atlantis USX and I briefly […]
Veeam FastSCP Free for Microsoft Azure
Veeam has released a new free tool called FastSCP for Microsoft Azure. As you can probably imagine this free utility has something to do with Microsoft Azure, but in this post I’ll details some of the specifications and look-and-feel. But first what’s this tool is destined for? Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure is meant to […]
Free Virtual VNX software to Download – A full-featured version of vVNX
There is free download for users who wants to play with Virtual VNX software – a community edition. In fact you can download an OVF file (after registration) which will deploy a virtual VNX which you can use in the lab as a shared storage. Apparently the release does supports VVOLs so it’s a good chance […]
Configure vCenter Server After Install – Lab Time
vCenter server installation got really simple in vSphere 6, but the config isn’t that evident if you’re new to virtualization and VMware. In this post I’ll do a walk-through on the configuration steps of vCenter. It does not matter if you have deployed vCenter server on Windows or if you have deployed vCenter server appliance […]
VMware App Volumes 2.7 Generally Available
VMware App Volumes continues its progression and development this week. VMware App Volumes 2.7 Generally available. I was nicely surprised last year during VMworld with the demo I’ve seen, but since then the product has kept evolving. At that time the name of the product was Cloud Volumes. Now the version 2.7 of App Volumes […]
Veeam v8 Update 2 Adds vSphere 6 Compatibility and backup of FT enabled VMs
Long awaited Veeam v8 Update 2 brings compatibility for vSphere 6.0, but with that also a possibility to (finally) backup FT protected VMs. Veeam Backup and Replication v8 Update 2 allows also the IT admin to use free Veeam Endpoint Backup in his/her environment, to monitor/restore files from those within the Veeam v8 backup console as those Endpoint […]
ESXi 6.0 Downgrade Options – lab time
If you’re new to VMware or still learning, gaining experience this post might be your interest as I’ll be talking about ESXi 6.0 downgrade options but also about the possibility to downgrade VMware infrastructure as a whole. It’s not something that cannot be done, but some preparations must be done previously in order to be able to […]
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