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New releases for Veeam products

20 December 2017
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Veeam has just released a lot of new versions of its products, providing the strategic Availability and data management platform for customers of any size. Veeam Availability Platform supports any workload — virtual, physical or cloud — in multi‑cloud environments comprised of private, public, Software as a Service (SaaS) or managed clouds.

For some products is just an updated version, but Veeam has started (with VBR 9.5) a continuous integration of new features (and some anticipations of new features of v10), so this list of new products it’s very interesting:

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3

19 December 2017
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Instead of release a new v10 version of Veeam Backup & Replication, seems that Veeam is upgrading the current v9.5 with several features announced for the future v10 (if there will be a future v10).

The new Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 adds several improvements and new features (see the release notes of the product).

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Tintri scaling is more flexible

19 December 2017
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Tintri has an interesting VM-aware All-Flash storage platform for virtualization and cloud environments. There are both All-Flash and Hybrid-Flash products, but the most interesting aspects are the VM-aware capability, the analytics data, and the scaling model.

The arrays are similar to other two-controllers arrays, with a scale-up (or scale-in) model. But some years ago Tintri unveils its scale-out storage model where was possible grow your storage base in a simple way.

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VMware Tools 10.2.0

15 December 2017
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One year ago, VMware has started the bifurcation of VMware Tools for Legacy and Current Guests using of two separate delivery vehicles:

  • VMware Tools 10.1 is available for OEM-supported guest OSs only
  • VMware Tools 10.0.12 was for the guests OS that have fallen out of support by their respective vendors are offered “frozen”.

The frozen VMware Tools will not receive feature enhancements going forward.

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From vSphere to a cloud with vOneCloud

14 December 2017
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vOneCloud is an OpenNebula distribution optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments to provide full cloud features.

It deploys an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just in a few minutes where the infrastructure is managed by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager, and the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula.

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The dark side of stretched clusters

12 December 2017
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This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a stretched cluster.

A stretched cluster, sometimes called metro-cluster, is a deployment model in which two or more host servers are part of the same logical cluster but are located in separate geographical locations, usually two sites. In order to be in the same cluster, the shared storage must be reachable in both sites.

Stretched cluster, usually, are used and provided high availability (HA) and load balancing features and capabilities and build active-active sites.

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Snapshot management in vSAN

11 December 2017
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VMware vSAN should manage better VM snapshots compared with traditional storage and VMFS datastores. The reason is the new (v2) on-disk format in VSAN 6.0 and the new filesystem that is used: VirstoFS.

VirstoFS is the first implementation of technology that was acquired when VMware bought a company called Virsto a number of years ago.

Also there is a new sparse format called vsanSparse. These replace the traditional vmfsSparse format (redo logs).

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