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Starwind Storage Appliance Protects up to 4 disk failures

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Starwind software is well known for their Virtual SAN software I have talked about on several occasions, and newly also about their Hyperconverged appliances (hardware+software) which are pre-configured with your options by Starwind engineers as a “ready-to-ship” systems. But at Starwind they also have another interesting product which provides just storage – Starwind Storage Appliance […]

Stratoscale Symphony – converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management

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Stratoscale Symphony is a hyper-converged solution allowing you to built your own private cloud. Their solution has converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management. It is also multi-tenant. Think of it as a full VMware stack with ESXi, VSAN, and vCloud Director….. but running OpenStack and KVM Hypervisor based. They’re using commodity hardware […]

How-to Update Altaro VM Backup Software

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I was checking the different upgrade options on different backup solutions I’m testing in my lab, and one of them is Altaro. Readers of our blog know that I work in collaboration with different software partners and vendors, to review their products, or to simply report on their features. To see how they behave in […]

VMworld Barcelona 2016 Best Moments

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After a long travel home, I’m still full of excitement, full of impressions and good moments from this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2016. Contrary to other years VMworld this time VMware has announced more “important stuff” here in Europe. VMworld Barcelona 2016 uncovered VMware vSphere 6.5, VSAN 6.5, but also, more importantly (for some) the new […]

VMware VSAN 6.5 – What’s New?

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VMware VSAN 6.5 has been announced! During VMworld US there wasn’t any vSphere 6.5 information coming out. I mean, we were expecting the vSphere 6.5 to come out one day or another, but the information could only be shared today. Here we go. VSAN 6.5 is the 5th generation of VSAN! The 6.5 release of VSAN brings […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Fault Tolerance (FT) Improvements

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VMware Fault tolerance (FT) has historically used vLockstep technology, which had been replaced in vSphere 6.0 by another technology called fast checkpointing. My detailed post – VMware vSphere 6.0 allowing to configure 4vCPU in a FT protected VM.  vSphere 6.5 is pushing things forward and improving this technology even further, especially from a latency standpoint, which […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Announced !!

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VMware vSphere 6.5 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona! This is an unusual year for VMware as usually the biggest announcements are kept for VMworld US, but this year is exactly the opposite. VMware vSphere 6.5 is the main piece of communication through VMworld Europe (VMware like calling this show VMworld EMEA). Check our dedicated […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 – Native vCenter High Availability (VCSA 6.5 only)

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VMware announced vSphere 6.5. We have the details on the VCSA 6.5, the new installation options, and migration covered in a separate post. This post will focus on the newly introduced Native vCenter High Availability (HA). Note that this will only be available for the VCSA 6.5. Windows based vCenter server deployments won’t have this feature. […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 – HA and DRS Improvements

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VMware vSphere 6.5 has been announced with many evolutions in the product. Many new features that were part of the beta now can “see the light” through many blog posts and articles, published all around the web. This one is no difference. Every year, during VMworld time we have at least 10 articles scheduled. You […]