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Reading Time: 2 minutesDue anni fa, VMware ha avviato dei nuovi (sotto)programmi vExpert su differenti tecnologie specifiche. Uno di questi è il vExpert NSX e ho avuto la fortuna di far parte della prima lista di vExpert NSX 2016. Dopo la riconferma nello scorso anno (VMware vExpert NSX 2017) scopro di essere stato riconfermato anche per quest’anno. Infatti VMware ha appena rilasciato la lista aggiornata con i vExperts NSX 2018.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) è uno strumento gratuito con tutti i server Dell EMC PowerEdge ed offere una soluzione di gestione dei sistemi uno a uno completa in due modi: da un’interfaccia grafica utente integrata e basata su browser Web e da un’interfaccia a linea di comando tramite il sistema operativo del server fisico. Ma anche nel caso si utilizzi uno strumento centralizzato come Open Manage Essential (OME), OMSA è in grado di fornire alcune funzionalità uniche, come ad esempio l’accesso al BIOS del sistema. Di solito viene installato nel sistema operativo di […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the last Veeam Community Forums Digest newsletter there is an interesting note about possible performance issues in VMware vSphere backup based on hot-add transport mode. VMware has confirmed that the increased Hot Add times experienced by some Veeam customers who have installed Veeam Backup & Replication Update 3a and the reason is the latest Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.5 version used in U3a to support also vSphere 6.5 Update 2.
Reading Time: 4 minutesUno dei modi più utilizzati per gestire il backup della VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) era quello di usare una qualunque soluzione di backup a livello di VM. Soluzione semplice, ma non sempre efficace, visto che in caso di corruzione del filesystem o del database embedded, i risultati di un restore a livello di VM potrebbero essere disastrosi, lasciando una VCSA non funzionante. A partire da vSphere 6.5, la VCSA 6.5 ha aggiunto la possibilità di gestire un backup nativo, tramite l’interfaccia di gestione vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI). Ma era comunque un’operazione manuale […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesNote that this post becomes obsolete with the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 release where the client it’s finally complete. Some months ago I’ve written a post (Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client ready to replace the vSphere Web Client?) on the limitation of the new vSphere Client, but this was before the vSphere 6.7 and vSphere 6.5U2 releases. VMware vSphere, during its history and the different versions, has got several types of Graphical User Interface (GUI) client. One of the most used (not the first, but the standard one since Virtual Infrastructure 3.0) was the vSphere […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesVM Explorer is another backup (and replication) tool with native support for virtualized platforms (vSphere and Hyper-V) with a good success in the SMB segment. Initially was build by a Swiss company (Trilead), acquired later by HP(E) and recently acquired by Microfocus. Lot of changes in the name, but not in the substance and with a good development and release cycles. Now Microfocus has released a new VM Explorer release (v7.1) compatible with the latest version of VMware vSphere 6.7.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware vSphere provides a different way to copy the VM data during a backup operation: those modes are called transport modes. There are at least three major transport mode: network mode (or NBD), hot-add mode (or VM proxy mode), SAN mode (of storage offload mode). Most of the backup products can use those different transport modes depending on the configured infrastructure and the requirements.
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