Reading Time: 3 minutesFlashGrid is a new company founded in 2015 by some industry veterans (coming from Veritas, Intel, EMC, HGST, VMware, IBM).
FlashGrid is a software-defined storage technology company specializing on solutions for high availability high performance databases both on-prem or also on public cloud (for more information about their solution see also FlashGrid – Hyper-converged storage solution for Oracle systems).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new version of Vembu BDR Suite v3.7.0 is now Generally Available (GA) with new capabilities.
Vembu designed VMware backup protects vSphere and vCenter environments using VMware vStorage APIs (VADP). Users can backup and replicate unlimited VMs from VMware vSphere ESXi hosts without installing any agents inside VMs. Direct Hot-Add and SAN transport mode provides faster data transfer speed with less resource utilization. VMBackup will auto analyze the VMware environment and assigns the appropriate data transfer mode.
Backup VMs running in a Hyper-V host without installing agent on individual VMs. Vembu’s proprietary Hyper-V CBT driver tracks the changed blocks in an efficient manner and runs incremental backups 5X faster!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeam will provide a free NFR (Not for Resale) license (for 1 year up to 10 users) for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to all VMware vExperts, Microsoft MVP, VTEC members, Certified Engineers and Trainers. This license allows for non‑production use of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 in your home lab without any feature limitations.
Registration page is available at this link.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPlatform9 is a company founded by VMware engineers (with several years of experience) who have taken a fundamentally new approach to creating and managing private clouds. Their management SaaS solution (or MaaS) went GA two years ago and as grow really faster and moving from the managing of on-prem resources (KVM and vSphere environments) with the all stack (including storage and networking) to public clouds and containers.
Platform9’s model makes it easy to run hybrid clouds across any infrastructure, using leading Open Source cloud frameworks based on OpenStack for VM and IaaS management and Kubernetes for Container Orchestration.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCloudPhysics SaaS solution is absolutely interesting and I’ve write about them in my #VFD3 report, but what is really interesting is that they are using customer’s feedbacks to improve the product and make their day-to-day virtual data center operations smoother. Their SaaS delivery model enables the creation of the largest IT Data Lake in the industry.
An they publish those data in different reports, lastes one is Global IT Data Lake Report – Q4 2016.
In this report, they offer insights about global trends and changes that are occurring in the world of data center IT. With several key findings, the overarching theme of the report focuses on an abundance of idle and wasted compute and storage resources, suggesting a lack of optimization in data centers globally.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware has updated their supported Products list with a new version (updated at February 1,2017) of VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix document.
Finally this document has become smart and short, with few pages and highlighted in a right way both the products version is within 6 months of End of General Support or End of Technical Guidance and also products version that has gone past its End of General Support.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn VMware vSphere there was an hystorical limit of VMDK disks around 2 TB (2 TB – 512 B), but the real “usable” was also less due to the need to make a snapshots on it (if you want use native backup solutions) and depending on the block size (for more informations see Veeam KB 1091).
Starting with vSphere 5.5 was finally possibile have bigger disks up to 62 TB (that I will call just “jumbo” disks), but again with several limits describe in VMware KB 2058287 (Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMware ESXi 5.5.x and 6.0.x):
| Disclaimer & Copyright
