For new customers we often need to migrate their virtual machines from their datacenter into our datacenter. We use VEEAM Backup & Replication for this because it offers us the ability to pre-sync the VMs a few days before the migration and on the day of the migration it self, the last data sync is […]
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Using Veeam Backup & Replication for migration of a datacenter
Customer of mine wanted to move their VMware environment into the hosting environment we as Open Line offer to our customers. The initial plan was to shutdown all their systems, then physically move their storage and ESXi hosts to our site and start it again. After all systems would be running again, we would then […]
Is there enough support for ESXi already
We all know that the future version of vSphere will probably only be the ESXi version. At least, this is what VMware’s aim is for ESX5. Because it is wise to already get used to ESXi now to get more familiar with the absence of the Service Console, I was trying to switch my home lab of three ESX […]
Hyper-V Live Migration for free, tough cookie for VMware
Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not? If we […]
When myth busting goes wrong and becomes a myth to bust it self
Today I saw a video posted by Microsoft that should have shown a number of myths busted about VMware ESX. Unfortunately it turned out to be wrong on a number of points and it made me angry, why can’t we play it fair. With Hyper-V, I think MS has quite a good product for a […]