Reading Time: 3 minutes Now that the PSOD on vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs issue is finally solved seems that vSphere 6.5 critical bugs are closed, but it’s not totally true. During an upgrade from a vSphere 6.0, I’ve found a really strange iSCSI storage issues where all the VMs on the iSCSI datastore were so slow to become un-usable. First I was thinking about drivers or firmware, in the hosts and in the NIC (1 Gbps) or the firmware on the storage.
Reading Time: 2 minutes On October 2017, I wrote a post about a possible issue with vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs (mostly standard on new deployment). The final result was a PSOD (Purple Screen Of the Death) and no solution was available (yet). VMware KB 2151749 describe this issue as related to possible upgrade at vSphere 6.5. But other customers have report the issue also on new deployment. Veeam, one of the first vendor to found this issues (from their customers), reports that the issues is due to network-intensive activities such as backup over NBD or vMotion randomly triggering one. […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes As written in a previous post, some months ago, I’ve started a huge personal project that consumes all my spare free time. This project was a new book on VMware vSphere 6.5, really ambitious considering that will be a “Mastering” book, but the title and part of the content were not negotiable with the editor. Finally, the book Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 is done and it’s now available on Packt site (and in the future also on Amazon).
Reading Time: 3 minutes Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 has been released on May 2017, and now there is a new version available: v2.1. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is built on the extremely successful Veeam Endpoint Backup™ FREE and includes two brand new editions — Workstation and Server — with additional features designed to ensure the Availability of your Windows workloads by providing backup and recovery for physical and cloud-based workloads, as well as endpoint devices that belong to remote users. There are a lot of improvements and new features for this new version.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nutanix has announced the new list of Nutanix Tech Champions (NTC) 2018. NTC is a community award, started on 2014, similar to others programs like VMware vExpert, Microsoft MVP, Cisco Champions, EMC Elect, … rewarding members of the community on their efforts in sharing their knowledge and enabling fellow community members. The Nutanix Technology Champion program spans the globe and is comprised of IT professionals from every cloud, application group, and technology. They are committed to news ways of thinking that will power the next generation of enterprise computing.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Veeam has just released a lot of new versions of its products, providing the strategic Availability and data management platform for customers of any size. Veeam Availability Platform supports any workload — virtual, physical or cloud — in multi‑cloud environments comprised of private, public, Software as a Service (SaaS) or managed clouds. For some products is just an updated version, but Veeam has started (with VBR 9.5) a continuous integration of new features (and some anticipations of new features of v10), so this list of new products it’s very interesting:
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of release a new v10 version of Veeam Backup & Replication, seems that Veeam is upgrading the current v9.5 with several features announced for the future v10 (if there will be a future v10). The new Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 adds several improvements and new features (see the release notes of the product).
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