Yesterday I received an e-mail from StratoGen asking me if I could help them find beta testers for their VMware vCloud Director beta program. Stratogen is struggling to find beta testers that can really push this new platform to the limits. In particular they are looking for power users familiar with building complex environments using VPNs, […]
Important info on vSphere5 VAAI for EMC VNX / CX4
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 […]
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 […]