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Infinio Accelerator 3.4 Compatible with VMware vSphere 6.7

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First cache storage vendor bringing a VMware vSphere 6.7 compatibilities is Infinio. Yes, Infinio Accelerator 3.4 Compatible with VMware vSphere 6.7. It uses VMware VAIO technology and it’s able, according to Infinio, achieve only an 80 microseconds (0.08ms) response time by caching the hottest data on host RAM. It also uses secondary cache, SSD storage, to provide […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a Released Supporting vSphere 6.7 – Download Now

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Since last week, Veeam has made finally available the latest update of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a, which supports VMware vSphere 6.7. It is an important update to install before you’ll upgrade your vSphere to the latest 6.7 release. It also has a vSphere 6.5 U2 support for those who updated their vSphere 6.5 to […]

StarWind Virtual SAN and Stretched Cluster Architecture

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Perhaps you did not know, but StarWind Virtual SAN also supports stretched cluster architectures. For an average admin, it might not be an everyday solution as it is used for special use cases with strict networking requirements (latency and bandwidth). To understand what “stretched cluster” is. You have two remote sites within the same cluster […]

VMware Workstation 2018 Tech Preview Released

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Just a few days ago, VMware has released a VMware Workstation 2018 Tech Preview which allows you to test new features and enhancements fro the upcoming VMware Workstation Pro 2018 release. This tech preview does not need a serial to enter when using it but it’s a time-limited version. It means that sometimes in the future, it […]

Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility – Free Tool

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There is a new update on Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility, which is a free tool for VMware vSphere. The tool is free but is not intended to be used in the production system, because it’s only experimental. The same for all the other VMware Flings. Download only when accepting the checkbox…. The latest update has brought […]

Runecast Announcing NSX-V support with Runecast Analyzer 1.8

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Runecast analyzer continues its rapid development with fast update cycles. Today we’ll report on their latest update of Runecast Analyzer 1.8 which brings VMware NSX-V support allowing to detect misconfiguration and problems within your NSX-V environment. One of the previous releases of Runecast brought much-awaited VMware vSAN support and we have reported on it in details […]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ravello Service Is a Good Choice for DevOps

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Enterprise admins usually value their time which is precious. At the end of the day, the working day has only 24 hours, so every min saved counts. Same for hardware savings, when you need to implement a new application in production, you first need a testing environment. If you don’t have testing environment because there is […]

Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling – Create a Speed Limit on a Per-Job Basis

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Today we’ll have a look at Nakivo Backup and Replication, and particularly at one function, it has – Bandwidth Throttling. Nakivo Backup and Replication supports Bandwidth Throttling since it’s version 7.4. This post will talk about Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling and How it works. Bandwidth throttling allows you to limit the speed of your jobs so your […]

Stratoscale Symphony – Software-Only Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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With Stratoscale you do not have to buy a hardware from a particular hardware vendor. Stratoscale can run on any Intel CPU so basically, you can go back to 4-5 years behind and re-use your own hardware to build hyper-converged environment with Stratoscale. One particularity before we move forward, you might not know that Statoscale’s […]