VMturbo has released new version of their flagship product – VMturbo Operations Manager 5.2. A very interesting feature has been added to this release – QoS for applications. The previous VMturbo release has brought Application Control Module (ACM) and in the 5.2 release a SQL and Oracle support has been added for ACM. So it […]
How-to Connect to vCenter 6 vPostgress Database with PgAdmin
vCenter Server 6.0 is using by default the internal vPostgress Database. If you chose this option during the installation over an SQL server installation you basically lose the possibility to manage this DB, unless you install some vPostgress management tool. One of those tools is PgAdmin and in this post we will take a look […]
What is Storage Spaces Direct? It’s a Software Based Storage by Microsoft
Another vendor who will jump into the hyper-converged wagon – Microsoft. Storage Spaces Direct is in preview in Windows server 2016 which is upcoming server software from Microsoft. Storage spaces direct has the same principle as VMware VSAN – leverages local disks of each host (DAS storage) in order to create a shared pool of clustered storage […]
VMware VSAN Health Check Plugin Released
There is a new plugin for VMware VSAN 6.0 which allows troubleshooting and monitoring of VSAN 6.0 installations and implementations. There are 2 versions of the plugin where the first one is for vCenter Server on Linux (VCSA) – this is an RPM file. And the second one is for Windows based vCenter server 6.0 – a […]
ScaleIO Free Download starting May 29th – from EMC
Another free Software Defined storage will be available soon. This time it’s EMC’s ScaleIO Software! The news came from (big) Virtual Geek’s blog, and you certainly know the person behind – Chad Sakac. I’m not an EMC person and I’m not familiar with the solution, but I’m most likely interested in a hyper-converged software solution that […]
Mount VMFS Datastore – via GUI or via CLI [Guide]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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