Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature that has been around for a while within VMware virtual machines. CBT is available if you’re running ESX 4.0 or higher with hardware version 7 or higher on the VM. Basically, VMware can keep track of disk sectors that have changed since the last backup. When that VM is backed…
Theresa Miller Theresa Miller and I chat about what life is really like in the data center of a large health care organization. Check out Theresa’s blog and follow her ontwitter!
VMware released a new bundle last year called the VMware Horizon Suite (PDF). This suite goes beyond that of just virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provided by VMware Horizon View(formerly VMware View) and includes physical and virtual desktop management as well as file and folder management and sharing technology. This is basically everything anyone looking for a good End…
Julia Mak Julia Mak is the head Vanguard forOxygenCloud. Find out how OxygenCloud is making waves in file sharing and syncing for end users and businesses! Bonus Music Video…click here!
One of the biggest improvements made to VMware’s vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in version 5.5 is that the limitations of hosts and virtual machines has increased, and vCSA 5.5 can support up to 100 hosts and 3,000 virtual machines. This opens the possibility for larger SMBs to start using the appliance-based vCenter and lose the businesses’ Windows…
One of the biggest improvements made to VMware’s vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) in version 5.5 is that the limitations of hosts and virtual machines has increased, and vCSA 5.5 can support up to 100 hosts and 3,000 virtual machines. This opens the possibility for larger SMBs to start using the appliance-based vCenter and lose the businesses’ Windows…
If you felt the pain of installing vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-On (SSO) when it first came out, you know it wasn’t easy for various reasons. It was brand new, and we were all used to really easy upgrades from VMware. Another reason is VMware was using RSA tools that were very locked down, so if you didn’t…
Phoummala Schmitt Phoummala Schmitt (aka Exchange Goddess, aka Agent P) and I discuss working in a large enterprise with highly available datacenters in multiple countries. Follow Phoummala on twitter and read her blog here.
VMware’s Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a tool that enables end users to consume the services that reside in your company’s data center while allowing administrators to maintain control over this consumption. In other words, vCAC brings to the enterprise cloud-like tools that can ease the workload on IT while enabling business units to provision…
Tiffany To Tiffany To, of Coho Data and I chat about their product DataStream 1000. Coho is a really awesome startup using scale-out storage combined with open source innovations. Follow Coho Dataon Twitter. Also check out the Storage Field Day 4 videos here!