Browsing Posts published in 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesDi recente, durante il VMworld US 2018, VMware ha celebrato i suoi 20 anni di storia che hanno segnato una rivoluzione nel mondo dell’IT, grazie alla virtualizzazione per ambienti x86. Ma in realtà esiste un’altra soluzione di virtualizzazione su x86 che anch’essa ha tanta storia e che questo mese compie i suoi 15 anni: Xen Project, con il supporto a guest Linux 2.4.22. Nel lontano ottobre 2003, Ian Pratt (il fondatore del Xen Project) annuncia la prima release stabile del Xen virtual machine monitor per x86!

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome days ago I’ve got a strange error during the backup job of a vSphere 6.7 (not Update 1) environment with latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication. The job was starting correctly, VMs have been discoverted, but when the backup start to copy the VMDK the job failed with a “VDDK async operation error 14009” message.

Reading Time: 4 minutesVirtual Instruments introduced the next generation of VirtualWisdom, a comprehensive full-stack, real-time, hybrid IT Infrastructure Management Platform. By visualising the infrastructure in the context of the application, VirtualWisdom 6.0 enables organisations to proactively gain full control over the performance and availability of the applications across their modern hybrid data centres. In doing so, VirtualWisdom delivers improved control, greater business agility and reduced costs. Furthermore, it brings an end to the costly, unproductive and antiquated “IT war rooms” typically created to resolve critical application slowdowns and outages.

Reading Time: 2 minutesRemote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is an interesting way to improve network connections and bandwith by providing a direct memory access from the memory of one system  into that of another. Compared to the full TCP/IP stack, RDMA can be managed without involving either one’s operating system (OS) and this means saving host resources and speed-up the communication. RDMA permits high-throughput and low-latencynetworking, but more important is becoming a common feature on some network card, and also supported by different OSes and hypervisors.

Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the most read post remain how to Purge old data from a vCenter Server DB, but was written on 17 January 2014 and related to vSphere 5.1 version with the vCenter Server based on Windows Server. Thinks are changed in those years, but problems could remain the same also with VCSA 6.x. You can have similar issue also with the VMware vCenter Server database, considering that it can continuous grow due to the statistics and also due to the events/tasks. In really small system a simple solution could be re-install a fresh version […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesLa nuova versione VMware vSphere 6.7U1 ha diverse migliore e nuove funzionalità già descritte nei post precedenti. Però c’è una funzionalità che in realtà è passata abbastanza inosservata. In realtà non è tanto una funzionalità ma una particolare compatibilità:finalmente VMware vSphere 6.7U1 supporta Active Directory 2016. In molti si dimenticano che le diverse componenti di vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) e VMware Platform Services Controller (PSC) hanno una particolare matrice di compatibilità con Active Directory, in particolare con i relativi livelli di funzionalità.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA3 Communications helps organisations in the data storage and virtualisation industries to significantly increase their brand awareness and create leading reputations among their target audiences through unparalleled expertise, reliability, and results thanks to bespoke PR, AR and SoMe programmes. Every day A3 Communications helps larger and smaller players, established and emerging ones alike, increase their share of voice, mindshare and ultimately market share. Today A3 Communications has a direct presence in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and USA and a proven network of partners in the rest of the world.

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