The first step in our configuration of the VDP environment is to download and deploy the VDP appliance. The VDP appliance is downloaded as a single appliance but is configured during deployment as either 0.5TiB, 1TiB or 2TiB. This is the amount of backed up, compressed and deduplicated data that is going to be stored. With a 1TB drive containing […]
So, one of the items that people tend to overlook with the vSphere suite of software is the vSphere Data Protection appliance that is made available as part of your licensing (this requires vCenter). I’ve been using this solution for a little while at some of our locations to provide branch office backups which can replicate back to a central […]
Recently VMware released their vCenter Support Assistant that helps to streamline the process of dealing with support by automatically scanning your environment on a schedule and proactively logging tickets with VMware on your behalf if there are any discovered issues. This post is designed to give a walkthrough of the installation process for this new virtual appliance and the basic […]
Building on my previous post about Adding Multiple vCenters onto a Single Web Client which was primarily designed for v5.1 of vSphere, I felt that we could take this a step further with a real world solution designed on v5.5. The Scenario So, the scenario is this… the customer has two data centers, which are at different ends of the […]
So, if you are like me and have been looking over the web since the announcement of the new features in vSphere 5.5, you’ll notice that there are lots of different bloggers telling you what the new features are. Instead of me going around and offering the same information, but in my own way (how many ways can people describe […]
I was listening to the new features being released as part of vSphere 5.5 and also vCenter 5.5, and the idea that all of the components of vCenter should once again be installed on a single server and that the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) has been reworked to support more hosts and virtual machines. This indicates to me that the […]
I thought that this would be a good opportunity to link through to the VMworld 2013 US General Sessions from VMworld TV on YouTube. Day 1 – General Session – Monday 26th August 2013 http://youtu.be/ttQLrytT7xU Day 2 – General Session – Tuesday 27th August 2013 http://youtu.be/uimcBqGVp4U
So just listening to the announcements at the first key note of VMWorld 2013 in San Francisco. The first big announcement is the release of vSphere 5.5 and also vCloud Suite 5.5. New items include the fact that VMDK disk sizes can now be up to 64TB in size (well actually just less than 64TB) which brings it in line […]
Here is a very interesting post from Scott Lowe and David Davies about the comparisons between vSphere Enterprise Plus vs Windows Server with System Center. [purehtml id=2]