Reading Time: 3 minutes Tintri has an interesting VM-aware All-Flash storage platform for virtualization and cloud environments. There are both All-Flash and Hybrid-Flash products, but the most interesting aspects are the VM-aware capability, the analytics data, and the scaling model. The arrays are similar to other two-controllers arrays, with a scale-up (or scale-in) model. But some years ago Tintri unveils its scale-out storage model where was possible grow your storage base in a simple way.
Reading Time: 3 minutes One year ago, VMware has started the bifurcation of VMware Tools for Legacy and Current Guests using of two separate delivery vehicles: VMware Tools 10.1 is available for OEM-supported guest OSs only VMware Tools 10.0.12 was for the guests OS that have fallen out of support by their respective vendors are offered “frozen”. The frozen VMware Tools will not receive feature enhancements going forward.
Reading Time: 3 minutes vOneCloud is an OpenNebula distribution optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments to provide full cloud features. It deploys an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just in a few minutes where the infrastructure is managed by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager, and the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula.
Reading Time: < 1 minute VMUG Virtual Events are the single most impactful tech events for professionals utilizing VMware products and solutions. Created by VMware users for VMware users, these FREE day-long events are geared to empower you through education, training, and collaboration, all with the goal of impacting your projects and your career. Next VMUG Virtual event will be the 13th of December 2017:
Reading Time: 17 minutes This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a stretched cluster. A stretched cluster, sometimes called metro-cluster, is a deployment model in which two or more host servers are part of the same logical cluster but are located in separate geographical locations, usually two sites. In order to be in the same cluster, the shared storage must be reachable in both sites. Stretched cluster, usually, are used and provided high availability (HA) and load balancing features and capabilities and build active-active sites.
Reading Time: 2 minutes VMware vSAN should manage better VM snapshots compared with traditional storage and VMFS datastores. The reason is the new (v2) on-disk format in VSAN 6.0 and the new filesystem that is used: VirstoFS. VirstoFS is the first implementation of technology that was acquired when VMware bought a company called Virsto a number of years ago. Also there is a new sparse format called vsanSparse. These replace the traditional vmfsSparse format (redo logs).
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the VMware ESXi 6.x partitions layout, usually, there is a partition called “scratch” that hosts the log, the updates, and other temporal files. Scratch space is configured automatically during installation or first boot of an ESXi host and is not required to be manually configured. If you install ESXi on a local hardware disk (or also if you are using a remote LUN in “boot from SAN” mode), this partition is built during the installation phase (it’s 4 GB Fat16 partition created on the target device during installation, if there is sufficient space). If […]
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