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Maxta Storage Platform Overview

7 January 2014
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Some weeks ago I’ve got the opportunity to talk with some people from Maxta Inc. about their storage solutions. Maxta’s mission is to dramatically simplify and streamline IT by thinking outside the storage box. Maxta has redefined enterprise storage, enabling our customers to realize the full potential of the Software-Defined Data Center.

Their idea is simple (and not necessary new): eliminate Storage Arrays and Storage Networking with a completely software based storage solution that provide an hypervisor agnostic, VM-centric Enterprise-class data services for VM agility, continuous availability, data protection, and capacity optimization.

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New year, new site

1 January 2014
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With the new year, there was an opportunity to fix the site (started on July 24, 2011), especially in order to replace the theme and some plugins that were no longer up to date and easily to keep updated. Compared to what happened long ago, there has been no change in the domain of the site, but some URLs may not work (because some permalinks, due to the changing of the multilingual module, may not be all up to date). In those cases, just report the problems using the comment form.

Happy 2014!

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NAKIVO announce Backup & Replication v3.8

20 December 2013
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NAKIVO has just released the new version 3.8 of Backup & Replication with the new following features:

  • vSphere 5.5 support
  • Support for Windows 8.1
  • Support for Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Backup repository self-healing

You can download the new version from the download page.

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Infinio Accelerator 1.0

19 December 2013
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Some 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.

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How change the download directory in VMware Update Manager

18 December 2013
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In 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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How to manually remove a stale VMware View pool

17 December 2013
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In 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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PHD Virtual – Where is now?

16 December 2013
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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.

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