As you might notice, StarWind VSAN now supports VMware VVOLS. If you’re new into VMware VVOLS, you should perhaps check some VMware documentation, or we have an article about storage and VMware VVOLS as well. Virtual volumes are object exported by a compliant storage system. vVOLs correspond one-to-one with a VMs disk and other VM related files. […]
Altaro Community Forums runs on DOJO
Today just an easy post where I’d like to share some news from one of the new backup vendors which are young and dynamic. Just recently, it’s been a nice surprise to find new forums at Altaro. I don’t know where the DOJO name came from but I find it kinda cool. With those icons […]
What is VMware UNMAP? – Dead Space Reclamation
I’ve had a couple of questions concerning UNMAP and dead space reclamation, in VMware vSphere. We know this also as “TRIM” on Windows and other systems. While in the past, the mechanism of space reclamation was able to reclaim dead space from a thinly provisioned array, but also from thin provisioned VMs (or rather their VMDKs), […]
Altaro VM Backup v 8.0 Released – What’s New?
New release from Altaro a few days back. This backup vendor is not so well known so far within VMware virtualization community, but they’re very active and they work hard to catch up. They’ve been in the backup business for a while, but at first, focused on Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Altaro VM Backup v 8.0 released […]
What Is Log-Structured Write Cache?
Log-Structured Write Cache (LWC) is composed of RAM but also small SSD pool. This way, an application with random writes, can have optimal performance, compared to a cache using RAM only. But it is also more secure as logs are written to SSD tier and replicated to other nodes within the cluster. StarWind VSAN uses LWC […]
How To Login Into VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Management page
As you know, the VMware management has evolved over a couple of years. In this post, we’ll explain how and what’s changed, but also do a quick demo of How To Login Into VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Management page. This post is destined people who are NOT VMware administrators but they just need some basic […]
StarWind V2V Converter is Now also P2V
StarWind has updated their free software called StarWind V2V Converter. The software has been around for a long time, but every release gets better. This time the tool can now even do a physical conversion into virtual (P2V). So, for example, you can convert physical Windows Server host into a virtual machine running on VMware […]
Top vBlog 2018 Is Here. Time to give back?
Every year, Eric Siebert from vSphere-land.com organizes a popular voting competition Top virtualization blog. Again this year, ESX Virtualization is part of that. Last year we had many awesome readers voting for us and we ended up in second place. It has been 10 years, and this blog continues to be active, continues to deliver news, […]
Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 U4 and VeeamON Virtual Details
In this post, we will talk about Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 U4 and also about an online event, Online conference (with technical sessions, vExpers, and Veeam Vanguards) called VeeamON Virtual. It is a free VeeamON Virtual conference online which will be held on the 5th of December. If you want to interact with Veeam experts, […]
Zerto Roadmap 2019 – v7.0 and v7.5!
We had a chat with Zerto’s contact Steve Blow, during VMworld Barcelona 2018 event. I’ve asked a few questions about Zerto and their insights on their new Elastic Journal which will be a key element of the new Zerto 7.0 when released in Q1 2019. Steve works for Zerto as a technical evangelist. We have […]
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