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…
Last year VMware released their solution for log management and analytics for both hosts and guests within your environment. Log Insight collects real time log events, such as critical errors or authentication issues, from physical and virtual machines. It then allows you to search them in an intelligent way as well as be alerted via email, SNMP,…
Oxygen Cloud was not something I was excited about when I saw it on the Storage Field Day 4schedule; it seemed like just another file sharing solution like Dropbox for the enterprise. Then I attended the presentation, and I was pleasantly surprised by the technology. To read more click here.
I attended Storage Field Day 4 a couple of weeks ago in San Jose, CA. One of the companies we had the pleasure of hearing from was Coho Data, a startup that will be releasing itsDataStream 1000 scale-out storage product later this month. With this scale-out storage methodology, the use of monolithic storage arrays is no longer the case.…
In September 2013, EMC released its next generation of mid-market storage arrays, the VNX2. This release is a complete re-write of the code used in the previous generation. Among other things, this array is designed specifically for use of optimizing performance via tiered storage, especially flash or solid state drive (SSD). (For information on other storage tiers,…
I’ve been a little remiss in my podcasting duties for the last month. I haven’t given up! I’ve got about two months worth of great podcasts in the queue now. Part of the hiatus has been due to my being busy with side projects, moving, and my actual job. Part of the hiatus has also…
EMC’s VNX Monitoring and Reporting application can help admins with an EMC VNX array monitor their storage environments. VNX Monitoring and Reporting allows you to keep historical data, which wasn’t impossible before but required more effort. Before you needed to download NAR files and be able to read technical logging, or you could pull up Analyzer…
I’ve received a couple of emails from readers asking how virtualization beginners can gain experience. My first piece of advice is to create a home or practice lab. This high-level overview outlines what you need to get a VMware vSphere 5.5 home lab up and running; there’s a lot of documentation out there to help you with the…
I attended VMworld 2013 and was lucky enough to also go to Virtualization Field Day (VFD) Roundtables with SimpliVity, CommVault, Infinio, and Asigra. For this article, I’ll focus on the Boston-based SimpliVity, which won the VMworld Best in Show Gold Award for Storage and Backup for Virtualized Environments. In particular, I’m going to spotlight SimpliVity’s OmniCube. You can watch a video of SimpliVity’s VFD presentation on…
From a traditional vSphere HA standpoint, the jump from Sphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 has not brought with it major enhancements. Host monitoring and virtual machine monitoring have stayed pretty much the same in this minor version upgrade. To read more click here.