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…
Sunshine Mugrabi Sunshine Mugrabi and I chat about “hacking communications” in this episode of AdaptingIT. Sunshine is a professional communicator who has spent a lot of time around the tech industry. She’s got some really awesome ideas about how to work with people and gives away a lot of secrets from her training in this show! Follow…
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.
VMware’s Horizon Application Manager 1.5 provides IT administrators with a way to give end users a sort of company app store that allows single sign on for many applications. The solution delivers applications to your end users’ devices using ThinApps. To read more click here.
Magnus Nilsson andJonas Rosland 9/7/2013 Magnus Nilsson and Jonas Rosland of EMC join me to discuss their VMworld session on vCenter Orchestrator, Razor, and ViPR. Check out their blogand follow them on Twitter@swevm (Magnus) and @virtualswede(Jonas).
VMware has worked on improving its native backup over the past couple of years. VMware now has vSphere Data Protection (VDP), which is very similar to EMC Avamar Virtual Edition. VDP includes both image level and file level recovery. These are several of the features included with VDP as noted in the Administration Guide (PDF): To read more click here.
Last week I attended the 10th annual VMworld, the mantra of the week was “Defy Convention.” I thought I’d compile some of my takeaways to compliment David’s VMworld day one and day two wrap-up posts. To read more click here.
This fact sheet will be continually updated with new information about VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). Please check back often to see any updates or changes. The vCHS offers public cloud capabilities directly from VMware. For more information, please check out this video on vCHS presented by VMware’s Jenny Fong. To read more click here.