Browsing Posts published in Febbraio, 2017

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 […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam ha annunciato la disponibilità di licenze NFR (Not for Resale) gratuite (per 1 anno e fino ad un massimo di 10 utenti) del nuovo prodotto Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Le licenze sono disponibile per tutti i VMware vExpert, Microsoft MVP, VTEC member, Certified Engineer e Trainer e sono destinati ad ambienti non‑production ma senza limiti di funzionalità (utiler per lab, ma anche per gli MVP per proteggere i propri dati sull’account Office 365). Per richiedere la licenza, basta registrarsi a questo 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 […]

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 […]

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 uno dei limiti storici è stato (per tanti anni) quello della dimensione di un singolo disco virtuale VMDK che non poteva eccedere i 2 TB circa (per la precisione i 2 TB – 512 B). In realtà la vera dimensione “usabile” era persino meno, per poter permettere la creazione di snapshot e dipendeva dalla dimensione del blocco (importante in VMFS3 o in VMFS5 se aggiornato dalla 3). Per maggiori informazioni si rimanda all’articolo Veeam KB 1091. A partire da vSphere 5.5 è stato finalmente possibile avere dischi virtuali grandi fino a 62 […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesUila Application-aware Infrastructure Performance Management is an end-to-end solution available as a public cloud service or also as an on-prem solution. The overall architecture is similar to other SaaS monitor and anlysis solution  but with some interesting difference: first the possibility to have and on-prem infrastructure, second the ability to monitor not only infrastructure related countes (like from vCenter) but also applications related counters, third the UI and its capabilities.

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