vSphere Enterprise Plus vs Windows Server with System Center (Hyper-V)
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]
VMware Now
As you maybe aware, next week sees the start of VMWorld 2013 in San Francisco. VMware will also be launching their new products live using their VMware NOW Live Launch Event. You can register for the event using the following link: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=666471&sessionid=1&key=6B956A18610ED4B9B1D1F36C8AE7250F&sourcepage=register Here is also a countdown to the event: [purehtml id=1]
VMworld US 2013 Predictions!!!
We’ve now gone screaming into August and VMworld US is just around the corner. Although I’m not attending VMworld US this year – need to work on my funding for US, I will be attending the Europe VMworld later in the year. VMWorld US has always been the place where all of the most important announcements have been made, with […]
VMware – Are they getting too big?
So firstly, I’d just like to say that this is not designed to offend anyone… I have a great respect for VMware but I have noticed a few things recently that have gotten me concerned. Now, I come from a time (not too long ago) when I remember logging onto the VMware web site and was only able to download […]
Veeam v7 – 7 new features announced plus 2 additional – updated
So Veeam Backup & Replication v7 is just around the corner. As always the details of the exact release date are unknown but as this is going to be a significant release, Veeam have decided to tease us all by announcing the larger of the enhancements every couple of weeks. It was originally believed that there were only going to […]
Site Recovery Manager – A Proven Test
Okay, so the key thing with any Disaster Recovery solution is to test it to make sure that it works… the unfortunate situation is that most companies will not allow you to go ahead and power down the production systems to confirm that Disaster Recovery will work. This therefore means that we have to come up with solutions to try […]
Horizon View Graphics Acceleration Deployment Guide Whitepaper
Released on 15th May 2013 The VMware Whitepaper on ‘Graphics Acceleration in Horizon View Virtual Machines: Deployment Guide’ is available to download now from: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-view-graphics-acceleration-deployment.pdf This document discusses the benefits of the different types of graphics acceleration available for VMware Horizon View virtual machines. In addition, the document provides information on how to implement and troubleshoot each graphics technology.
PowerCLI Script to Change IOPS Setting for XIV
So this is a bit of a controversial modification to make to the hosts connecting to IBM XIV storage. By default when using the Round Robin multipath policy in VMware (as advised for IBM XIV Storage), the path will only change after receiving 1000 IOPS. The controversy begins around the decision to modify this setting. Some users have experienced significant […]
VMware SRM – Failed to Sync data on Replica Devices
I came across an interesting situation when performing a Test recovery using VMware SRM, I received the following error: I performed a quick google to try to find a solution to the error message but there wasn’t anything listed, the only suggested solution I could find was to uninstall VMware SRM, reinstall it using a new database… this was not […]
Update Manager – Upgrade File Upload Fails
This was a bit of a strange one that I came across when trying to upload the ESXi 5.1 Update 1 iso to an Update Manager in preparation to upgrade an ESXi 4.1 host to the latest version. I was able to select the iso file but then came across the following error message when trying to actually upload it: […]