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ESXi 6.5 scratch partition issues

8 December 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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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VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3

6 December 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Cloud Foundation is VMware’s unified SDDC platform for the hybrid cloud and it’s based on VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization technologies to deliver a native integrated software stack that can be used on-premises for private cloud deployment or run as a service from the public cloud with consistent and simple operations. VMware has announced the upcoming release of VMware Cloud Foundation 2.3.  This new release comes with many new capabilities to help further simplify the tasks of deploying, operating and maintaining a VMware based hybrid cloud.

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VMUG CZ Meeting – My presentation

4 December 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOn December, 4th 2017, I’ve been invited at the VMUG CZ Meeting and it was a nice opportunity to meet some friends (and know new friends). It was also the opportunity to bring my experience with stretched clusters, mainly in VMware environment, in a presentation that I’ve titled “The dark side of stretched cluster“, in order to pointing not only at the pro of this configuration, but also at the possible cons.

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VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension for VMware Cloud on AWS

30 November 2017
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware has announced a preview of VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension service as an add-on service to VMware Cloud on AWS. (like the Site Recovery add-on). Hybrid Cloud Extension service will enable customers to adopt the latest VMware Cloud on AWS offers, without the need to refactor applications and redo security and compliance architectures. Hybrid Cloud Extension service will provide large scale application migration and mobility between legacy VMware vSphere environments (vSphere 5.0+) and VMware Cloud on AWS to support this use case.

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DRaaS with VMware Site Recovery

30 November 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring AWS re:Invent 2017 event, VMware has announced a new service based on VMware Cloud on AWS. The new service brings VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Disaster Recovery as a Service to the AWS Cloud. VMware Site Recovery™, a robust disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering that protects workloads between on-premises datacenters and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as between different instances of VMware Cloud on AWS.

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License changed for Vembu

29 November 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVembu is a player in the backup and data protection world, maybe not (yet) well-know, but for sure not new at all and with a complete suite that cover the physical world, the virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and also some public cloud SaaS solutions. Now there are some important news in the licensing options.

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3

27 November 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO has just released the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication: the new version 7.3 is now much friendly with enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, when they are used as a backup target. There is a new special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance […]

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