When creating a design for our new vSphere 5 environment I found some strange mismatches in supported configurations. Turns out VAAI is supported on VNX and CX4 when used in a vSphere4 environment, but the CX4 has no VAAI support when used in a vSphere 5 environment. VMware suggests disabling VAAI at ESXi level when […]
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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 […]
Free StarWind software for VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Certified Professionals
(Shamelessly copied from the StarWind website) StarWind Offers Free NFR Licenses for Lab Testing, Demonstration, and Training Purposes Burlington, MA – June 11, 2012 – StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of iSCSI SAN software and VM backup technology, announced today that the company offers free license keys of its best-of-breed High Availability SAN solutions to VMware […]
Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 released
On June 4th Veeam released version 6.1 of their well known Veeam Backup & Replication suite. In this new release they have of course included many fixes and quite number of interesting new features. The biggest new thing however is The Free Version called “Veeam Backup Free Edition”. Let’s do a quick walk through the […]
VMworld 2012 Session Public Voting now open
Last night VMworld has opened up the list of sessions that have been submitted for public voting. You can now browse through the list and give a ‘thumbs up’ for the session you would like to be presented at VMworld. I have entered one session myself: “1335 – Health Check of Your vSphere Environment“. This session will […]