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VMware VSA 5.1 – Entry level Virtual Storage Appliance

2 October 2012
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVSA (VMware vSphere/Virtual Storage Appliance) is a solution, introduced in version 1.0 with vSphere 5.0, to transform local storage in shared storage. Basically a VA on each node use a local datastore to export it via NFS. But most important is also make a replication to another node. I’ve already talk about it in a VCP exam objective (VSA 1.0 questions are part of VCP5 exam), but honestly the VSA 1.0 had several disadvantages: Cost: from my point of was too high (expecially for the position of this kind of solution). Disks usage: is first […]

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Nimbus Data – High-performance storage

24 September 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the last VMworld US, I’ve spend some to to visit several booths to know more about some vendor that are not present in my Country (or in the entire region). One of them was Nimbus Data Systems, company founded on 2006 (at South San Francisco, and now with offices also in Netherlands and UK). It develops the award-winning Sustainable Storage® systems, an intelligent, efficient and fault-tolerant solid state storage platform engineered for server and desktop virtualization, databases, HPC, and next-generation cloud infrastructure. Their points for storage systems are: performance, efficency and simplicity! If the […]

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Liquidware Labs: VDI solutions

21 September 2012
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Reading Time: 5 minutesFounded in Atlanta in 2009, Liquidware Labs is one of leader in desktop transformation solutions for next-generation physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7. Now it has offices also in Chicago, Vich (CH), Surrey (UK). The Liquidware Labs executive team is comprised of veteran technologists and experts with hands-on knowledge of virtualized environments and solutions (most of them are from VizionCore, Quest, PHDVirtual, …). Because of their decades of combined software solutions experience and depth-of-expertise in virtualization and thin technologies, our management is constantly asked to provide their perspective […]

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DataCore SANsymphony-V 9

19 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDataCore SANsymphony-V is a storage virtualization solution (a good definition could be that it is a “storage hypervisor”) already introduced a previous  post. Now has been released the new version 9 with several enhancements and features.. For more information see: Product page What’s New in SANsymphony-V R9

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VMware vSphere 5.1: Available on the download page

11 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinally VMware vSphere 5.1 is available (after the product announce during the VMworld). Note that now there is also a virtual appliance also for Orchestrator (when one for VUM?). Also vShield is now called VMware vCloud Networking and Security. VMware ESXi 5.1 build: 799733 VMware vCenter Center 5.1 build: 799735 What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1? VMware vSphere 5.1 download page VMware vSphere 5.1 documentation VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 documentation Note that also those other products are now available: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1

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DataCore SANsymphony-V Disk Migration Suite

10 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDataCore Software, specialized in offering Storage Virtualization software and provider of premier storage hypervisor, has announced the availability of SANsymphony™-V Disk Migration Suite. This product permit a non disruptive data continuity services during the time of data center relocations, VM moves, System Refreshes and Storage migrations. These are the periods, when the data centers are prone to downtime related to storage. SANSymphony offers non-stop business operations in order to keep the critical users and applications running undisturbed. The license, with duration of 30 days, is designed to handle LUN to ma maximum size of 16TB. […]

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VMware Hands on Labs

10 September 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesEverybody that has attend at least at one VMworld, or at a VMware Partner Exchange, event probably know what is a Hands on Labs (HoL) and probably has run at least a lab. HoL are probably one of the best reason to attend at this kind of event (and also this year were really good) because you can make practice on VMware technologies, and also (in the recent years) are well designed to be scenario oriented (and usually scenarios could be really close to the real world). The HoL infrastructure is really cool (and a […]

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