Part 3 of my backup products review has been released at SearchVMware.com. Follow the link below to see my review on “Vizioncore vRanger Pro 4.0” Backup and replication product review directory I. Introduction II. Veeam Backup and Replication 3.1 | Veeam responds III. Vizioncore vRanger Pro 4 Data Protection Platform | Vizioncore responds IV. esXpress 3.6 VMware Backup | esXpress […]
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Review: Veeam Backup & Replication 3.1
Part 2 of my backup products review has been released at SearchVMware.com. Follow the link below to see my review on “Veeam Backup & Replication 3.1”. Backup and replication product review directory I. Introduction II. Veeam Backup and Replication 3.1 | Veeam responds III. Vizioncore vRanger Pro 4 Data Protection Platform | Vizioncore responds(Coming soon) IV. esXpress 3.6 […]
Review of four backup products for a virtual infrastructure
Just released on SearchVMware.com my latest review on backup products for a virtual infrastructure: “Backup has always been essential to maintaining IT infrastructure, but it is also the most underestimated task. And when it comes to virtual infrastructure, things are pretty much the same. The virtual server backup market features four major providers that specialize […]
Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning
Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described below. I have experimented with Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) thin provisioning since the beta release of vSphere 4.0 as I don’t have much storage space to spare. Before we get […]
Harlem shuffle with VMDKs
Today I was brainstorming with Arnim van Lieshout about how to place all VMDKs on our LUNs, because right now we are facing two problems in our environment: No balancing of IO workloads across LUNs VMDKs often don’t fit nicely into the remaining LUNs space, so we lose a lot of GBs to unused space. […]