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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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSe state usando Veeam Backup & Replication con un datastore VMware vSAN, probabilmente avrete dato un’occhiata alla Veeam KB 2273 (Configuration for VMware VSAN) per capire quale fosse la configurazione e la modalità ottimale. Ma la KB si limita a raccomandare la modalità di trasporto hot-add.
Quindi avrete creato diversi proxy Veeam sotto forma di diverse VM nell’ambiente vSAN… magari persino 1 VM per ogni host (come qualcuno consiglia).
Reading Time: 2 minutesNutanix has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mainframe2, Inc. (“Frame”), a leader in cloud-based Windows desktop and application delivery.
The closing of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions.
Frame is a true pay-as-you-go EUC cloud platform — you are charged for infrastructure that you actually used. Compare this to a traditional fixed-cost VDI model, where resources are provisioned for peak capacity even though you don’t need them 99% of the time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStarWind presents new product lines for its major product: StarWind Virtual SAN.
StarWind VSAN eliminates any need in physical shared storage by simply mirroring internal hard disks and flash between hypervisor servers. It maintains high performance and data high availability on minimalistic resources. StarWind Virtual SAN delivers performance and reliability using commercial off-the-shelf hardware, removing the need for costly proprietary components.
Reading Time: 2 minutesvOneCloud is an OpenNebula distribution optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments to provide full cloud features.
vOneCloud is distributed as a virtual appliance for vSphere. It contains all required OpenNebula services within a single CentOS Linux appliance. All components are fully open-source and have been certified to work in enterprise environments. You can build your cloud in just 5 minutes!
Reading Time: 3 minutesNAKIVO è un’azienda americana (anche se ha origini russe) che nel corso degli anni (è stata fondata nel 2012) ha sviluppato un’interessante soluzione di backup per ambienti VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, e anche per alcuni ambienti cloud.
Dopo aver rilasciato NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4 in Aprile 2018, ora hanno rilasciato la nuova release v7.5 che aggiunge il supporto ufficiale a VMware vSphere 6.7, come pure aggiunge nuove funzionalità. L’elenco delle novità è il seguente:
Reading Time: 4 minutesScality it’s well know by its product Scality RING, used for large scale data storage designed usually for private cloud, with and impressive uptime (see Scality guarantees 100 percent uptime for private cloud storage environments).
But Scality has also other interesing products, for example Zenko, a free open source multi-cloud controller allows you to stay in control of your data across any cloud.
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