VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
Spectre and Meltdown bugs seems something from the past (my last blog post...
In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no w...
System virtualization remain the foundation of several datacenter infrastru...
Veeam Backup and Replication support PostgreSQL (only on Linux) using Appli...
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CentOS Linux was a freely available, community-supported Linux distribution...
RVTools 4.7.1 is a Windows .NET 4.7.2 application which uses VMware vSphere...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with th...
Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be pro...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNAKIVO has just released the new version 3.8 of Backup & Replication with the new following features:
You can download the new version from the download page.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome days ago I’ve got an interesting conf with Eric Keohan and Jonathan Klick about the Infinio product for storage acceleration in a VMware environment.
Infinio is a start-up and began in 2011 when Columbia computer science professor Vishal Misra and his fellow researchers saw the potential for their work to solve real-world problems. Vishal enlisted experienced software industry entrepreneurs and top-notch engineers (including co-founders Arun Agarwal and Dan Rubenstein) to make that vision a reality.
They exit from stealth mode during the Tech Field Day 9 and announce their innovative product: a caching appliance on each ESXi host to accelerate reads from NFS datastores in a VMware vSphere environment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn most cases (in small environment) a default installation of vCenter Server and its components could work. Considering that the default disk of Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 is 40 GB (at least in a VMware virtual environment) it can store all the installation without any directory changes.
Except for the Upload Manager (VUM) that need a reasonable space for store the patches (usually not more than 20GB, but in some case also more, and the installer suggest at least a 120 GB disk).
If you forget to change the patches directory during the installation (by default it’s C: in a position that could change from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and latest version), this VMware KB can help you to fix the issue: Changing the download location for VMware vCenter Update Manager patch repository (1004152).
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn some cases you may have a pending VMware Horizon View pool deletion task that does not finish for several reasons: usually when you have modify or delete some VM’s pool directly from the VMware vCenter Server instead from the View Manager.
In those cases you will not be able to remove those pool anymore and probably you will not able to build VM with the same pattern.
You can fix this issue manually using those VMware KB: Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 4.5 and later (2015112) or Manually deleting linked clones or stale virtual desktop entries from VMware View Manager 3.x and 4.0 (1008658).
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Unitrends today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire PHD Virtual Technologies, one of the fist innovator of virtual backup and disaster recovery assurance solutions. Both companies have primary investments from Insight Venture Partners, a leading global private equity and venture capital firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
I’ve wrote about PHD Virtual products (PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 with Cloud Hook, Using PHD Virtual Monitor with XenServer and vSphere, and more) and their solutions remains unique in Citrix XenServer environment and still valuable in a VMware one (still I’ve not understand why VMware has build VDR instead of simple build esXpress). Now will be more interesting see what’s happen from this acquisition.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the release of the the new vCloud Suite 5.5, the Horizon View 5.3, now it’s the turn of the general availability of VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6 and vCenter Operations (vCOPS) Manager 5.8.
Both were announced during the last VMworld Europe, in the VMware Cloud Management vision. Both present interesting function of cross-products and cross-cloud/environments.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication, now it’s the turn of the monitorin program with the new update Veeam One 7.0 R2.
Details and the patch file are provided in this KB and after upgrading, your build will be version 7.0.0.912.
As the R2 update of the backup product, new environment are now supported:
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