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VMware Cloud Suite 5.1 announce

27 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, during the live event, VMware has announced the new release of most of their Cloud Suite products (concept already introduced with the announce of the release 5). New release will be v5.1 for all products to adopt a uniform and consistency enumeration across products (View 5.1 was already released some month ago!). So this will be the versions changes for the suite: vSphere 5.0 -> 5.1 vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 1.0 -> 5.1? vCloud Director 1.5 -> 5.1 vShield 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter SRM 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter Operations 5.0 -> 5.1? As you […]

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VMware Workstation 9 and Fusion 5

23 August 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCould seems strange, but VMware has announce the new release of Workstation 9 and Fusion 5 some days before VMworld US. Probably to keep the focus of the announces on the Enterprise and Cloud platform. For Workstation, of course this release will support Windows 8 (seems also in the Windows 8 style interface). But more interesting seems: OpenGL support in Linux Restricted Virtual Machines A new web interface to share VMs Hyper-V (although is not supported) See also: VMware Workstation 9 has been released VMware launches Workstation 9 and Fusion 5

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VM replication in VMware SRM 5.0

23 August 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the interesting feature of VMware SRM 5.0.x is the vSphere Replication (VR) technology that is a VM a replication engine (part of SRM 5.0 and that also requires ESXi 5.0 and later) to implement protecting and replicating virtual machines between sites without the need of storage array–based replication (that usually it’s costly and too much vendor dependent). It use different elements: VRA (vSphere Replication agent): included in ESXi starting from v5.0 VRMS (vSphere Replication Management Server): one virtual appliance (VA) for each site to handle the communication VRS (vSphere Replication Server): one virtual […]

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Issue in VM migration: MAC Address may change

22 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I got a strange issue using a cold storage migration usign the Migrate function of vCenter Server. This was the scenario: a Free Hypervisor with some VMs where a full license (Essential Plus) was added and the host was also added to a vCenter Server. For compatibility matrix reason the version 4.1 was used (although the storage can work with vSphere 5.0 but officially was not supported). Also the Free Hypervisor was build with the 4.0 version and upgraded (one year ago) to the 4.1 version. This was the issue: after a cold storage […]

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SRM issue: how clean a pending reprotecting task

21 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAround a month ago I’ve got an issue with VMware SRM 5.0.1 during a test of the Recovery Plan. In my case the storage was well configured for the replication, but not to permit the reverse reverse replication. So the reprotect task was locked and there was no way to remove this state because also the Delete Protection group was greyed out. If you fix the storage part usually the issue could be fixed in a clean way, but in my case the original LUN was removed and was not possible resume or fix the […]

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Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 – Upgrade issue

16 August 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is installed on the same server as Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam Backup and Replication is upgraded to version 6.1 without upgrading Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, you will get an error about the Veeam Backup Catalog Data service. Upon rebooting, the server will go into an infinite reboot loop. The solution is well described in the KB 1645: Uninstall Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam Backup Catalog service. Run Veeam_B&R_Setup_x64 to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication to version 6.1. Allow machine to restart. Run Veeam_B&R_EnterpriseManager_Setup_x64 to upgrade Veeam Backup […]

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Whitepaper on backup policies

14 August 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome months ago I’ve realize a course for the Backup Academy titled: Basic principles of backup policies. Now it’s available also a whitepaper title “Backup policies defined for VMware VMs” (but it’s enough general to be applied for generic policies, both for physical and virtual environment). This is the list of all the media type available on my course: Online video with transcript Offline video Podcast PowerPoint Slide Whitepaper

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