StarWind is a company which traditionally uses the Windows stack to work with, to build their products. But today I have some news which will interest more Linux users and users willing to save some money on Microsft licensing. StarWind Virtual SAN Linux Version is a topic of today’s post. These days the difference between OS […]
VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO
In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very […]
VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO
VMware has officially released vSAN 6.6 so you can download your copy and evaluate the product. This post will detail our small lab configuration, which is a 2-Node vSAN cluster with a Witness running on the third host. For the purpose of this post, I have decommissioned my old environment running vSAN 6.5 (vMotioned VMs […]
What is VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters
VMware vSAN 6.6 which has been announced recently, further enhances stretched clusters configuration. The stretched clusters configuration has been part of vSAN since the 2015 release (v6.1). At that time, the stretched cluster configuration was released with fault domain architecture, where Witness is responsible for quorum and voting mechanism during cluster related failures. The Witness […]
How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto
Zerto’s technology for replicating VMs without snapshots was detailed quite a few times on our blog. Today, we’ll focus on How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto. Previously you could already recover a full site, application(s) or VMs, but the additional granularity giving you a possibility to recover files within the Zerto […]
What is VMware vSAN Disk Group?
We continue to explore VMware technologies and teach some of the new terminologies that are relatively new for some, but quite old for others. When you think that 3 years ago only, VMware was rolling out vSAN 5.5 and now, they’re just announced the 6th iteration of their popular hyper-converged software solution – VMware vSAN […]
VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced
The release number of next release VMware vSAN is 6.6. A first thing to mention is that VMware vSAN is no longer tightened to major VMware vSphere releases, which means that starting vSAN 6.6 we will see the progress of vSAN independently on vSphere. VMware vSAN entered already its 6th iteration (correct me if I’m […]
What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?
VMware Hot-Add RAM feature isn’t new, but somehow we haven’t covered it much just yet. So this post will explain What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it. The Hot-Add RAM goes hand in hand with Hot-Add CPU, but we’ll cover that in a separate post. Using hot-add/hot-plug you can add memory resources to […]
StarWind Virtual SAN Free vs Paid New Offer for 2017
StarWind Virtual SAN introduced new offer which is interesting and it is a subject of today’s article. In this post, we will explore the possibilities, advantages (and disadvantages) of the free product which has very little limits compared to their previous Free offer. It can be a perfect fit for a hyper-v 2016 dual node […]
Altaro VM Backup for Managed Service Providers (MSP)
Usually, MSP is a company that remotely manages a customer’s IT infrastructure and the end-user systems, on a proactive basis and under a subscription model. Like this, MSPs don’t have to buy the software for the customer. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs provides backup services compatible with VMware vSphere 6.5 and Hyper-V 2016. This approach provides […]
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