Browsing Posts published in August, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute Can’t make it to VMworld this year? But still want to hear breaking VMware news as it happens? This year there is a unique opportunity to attend at an online event: VMware NOW, a digital experience where you can watch the Keynotes and then dive into the new demos and details. Live on August 27 (when the VMworld US begin). To attend at this virtual event use this registration form, or look at the Facebook event page.

Reading Time: < 1 minute On 16 August 2012, VMware has releaded a new version of vCenter Server: VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1b (build 804277). This version introduces support for the following vCenter Databases: Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 64 bit Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 32 bit Also the DB2 express embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance has been replaced with VMware vPostgres database. This decreases the appliance footprint and reduces the time to deploy vCenter Server further. Finally it […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Veeam has released the first patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1, that fix some issues and add some enhancements: Increased synthetic full transformation, and reverse incremental backup performance Improved Direct SAN Access mode performance Added PowerShell cmdlet for VeeamZIP operation. Fixed issues with VMware and Hyper-V For a full list refer to release notes included in the KB1671. This patch is directly available (a login is required) from veeam website: http://www.veeam.com/download_add_packs/vmware-esx-backup/patch1/

Reading Time: < 1 minute If 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 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The VMworld defense sessions (both at San Francisco and Barcelona) may be not  the last VCDX4 defense opportunities (as written in this previous post). As written in a recent post in the VMTN VCDX Community, there is a pre-registration for a possible VCDX4 and VCDX5 Defense event in Tokyo following the Tokyo vForum in November. The proposed dates are November 8-9, 2012. To pre-register and show your interest in pursuing a VCDX credential at this proposed event just complete the survey.  If there will be a sufficient demand probably this session will be confirmed. Note […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Some 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

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the previous posts we have discuss about the architecture and the deployment of NexentaVSA for View. Has you have probably notice the configuration of NexentaStor VSA is really simple: just an OVF deploy, a test to verify that all is fine and a convert to template to be used during virtual desktop pool deployment. Now let’s talk about how use this product, that it’s well described in the User Guide and also in this video. As written in the previous post, the management appliance could be controller with a simple browser (Mozilla Firefox v9 […]

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