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Altaro VM Backup – Introduction

9 September 2015
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Altaro is a fast-growing software company with easy to use and affordable (also for the price) backup solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, specializing in backup for virtualized environments.

Their main solution is Hyper-V Backup v5 designed to make backup of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs easier than ever, with refined and sophisticated features, and also affordably priced (it include also a free edition, limited to 2 VMs per host and with a 4 weeks maximum retention). You’ll be up and running in a matter of minutes, protecting your VMs by using flexible features for automated backups and offering a host of granular restore options to recover quickly and safely from hairy situations.

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VMware VAIO is finally available

8 September 2015
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Several months ago VMware announce vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO) as a solution to implement 3rd Party Software-Defined Data Services in vSphere 6.0. VAIO offers partners the ability to put their technology directly into the IO stream of a VM through a filter that intercepts data before it is committed to disk.

It’s a good and efficient idea to implement features like caching or replication without the need of external components (or appliance) or kernel modules like today.

But this a partner program (like the Virtual Volumes) and unless partners have not developed this kind of solutions, it is useless.

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VMworld US 2015 Report

7 September 2015
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Now that I’m back from the VMworld US 2015, I can point some takeaways from this trip and give my event’s impression.

First to all why an European should attend at the US edition of the VMworld? Simply because this one is the real VMworld: huge, epic, a real American event! Probably too much big and too much crazy, but sometimes is nice feel and see the difference.

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VMworld announce: EVO news

4 September 2015
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EVO:RAIL is scalable and modular architecture housed in a small form factor (2U/4N Form factor including compute, storage, network and management resources), with flexible hardware configuration (with 8 Global Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners), able to scale out up to 16 appliances (64 nodes).

In only one year of history it has grow more and more in capabilities and also in adoption. But also in version 1.2 was still based of vSphere 5.5 and VSAN 1.0, until now!

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VMworld announce: Virtual SAN for ROBO scenario

3 September 2015
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The new Virtual SAN 6.1 has also another new features related to a specific deployment scenario: a 2-Node Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) configuration.

This configuration was possible with the previous VMware product (VSA) but was not suitable with VSAN, making space for other solutions like StorMagic SvSAN or StarWind Virtual SAN.

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VMworld announce: Virtual SAN 6.1

2 September 2015
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VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 (formally was v2.0) was a big improvement of the VMware’s hyperconverged storage solution with some important new features like the new filesystem (with powerful snapshot implementation), the concept of fault domain (to improve data resiliency), more scalability and the full flash option.

Now VMware has announced a new release: Virtual SAN (or VSAN) 6.1, with new improvements, including enhanced usability & management, advanced troubleshooting, and several new features.

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Ready for the VMworld US 2015

31 August 2015
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Like in 2012, this year I choose to attend at the US edition of VMworld. I like it in 2012, and probably I would like also this year.

Is really different from the European one and sometimes (travels are too costly for European people) deserve a visit.

This will be my second VMworld US and I’m really curious and exited! Will be also a VMworld without a new vSphere release (or I least I’ve not seen any beta)… things are changing… new products, new strategies!

I’ve already written about my expectation and I hope that will be a great and intensive week.

 

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