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 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.
Believe it or not, there are still applications that require the use of a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) if you’re going to virtualize the machine it runs on. Recently I encountered a situation where the hard disk was already formatted as a Virtual Machine Disk format (VMDK) on a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore in VMware. In a…
I spend a lot of time doing storage migrations to new storage arrays because the company I work for sells storage arrays. It’s actually not too difficult, and sometimes you can even do it without downtime. To read more click here.
It’s my opinion that every person who works with VMware should have a test lab. Although it would be ideal to have the same hardware as your production lab and completely duplicate the setup, that’s often not feasible. There are also things that come along with a test lab that make them annoying, for lack of a better…
A couple of weeks ago I was helping a client move to new servers within their vSphereenvironment while also doing an upgrade of their VMware products. While this can be a really smooth transition, there are always things you need to consider if you don’t want to shut down your VMs for a maintenance period. To read more…
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.
A few months ago I received an email regarding a blog I wrote about upgrading VMware vSphere. In short, I was asked some questions about how to approach an upgrade of vSphere in a relatively small environment. This admin was concerned about posting to the VMware forums because she felt she might be chastised for…