NetApp released few days ago a preview of their new Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0 vCenter Plug-in, integrating storage layer with vCenter and VMware View4. The RCU 3.0 provides end-to-end storage provisioning from within vCenter for infrastructures running VI3 & vSphere with support for FC, FCoE, iSCSI, & NFS datastores. Once storage and interfaces have been …
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Cloud Computing Offerings – Part 2 – “Wishes”
“A Bird’s-Eye Look at Cloud Computing offerings” published on November, 26th, generated a lot of interest from the Cloud providers. Both mentioned providers contacted me, providing some corrections to the blog post and requesting some additional feedback. Even a new Cloud start-up has requested some advice and offered me to be part of the beta …
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vSphere Host Profiles Deep Dive
It was nice to see my blog posts about “Your Organization’s Desktop Virtualization Project – Part 1 and 2” for the first making to the Top 5 Planet V12n blog posts week 45. It was energizing and gave me confidence that I am heading in the right direction with this blog. This article (vSphere Host …
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Troubleshooting vCenter Server and Lesson Learned
Not often I face issues with VMware products that were previously working with flaws and I do consider VMware hypervisor and it’s components a very reliable and robust solution. When I got into the office this morning vCenter Server service was not running and a manual restart or server reboot did not fix the issue. …
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Connections and Ports in ESX and ESXi
I have previously in the post “PCI DSS, Network Ports and your VMware Environment” discussed the network port requirements for deploying PCI frameworks, tightening your environment or just relaxing firewall rules. Today I came across a diagram and a great tool to help administrators to identify these connections and the interrelation between different VMware products. …
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VMware Data Recovery step-by-step for newbie’s
Firstly I have to say that this post was born due to my frustration with VMware Data Recovery. I was lucky or unlucky enough to be target by few different bugs in all releases, up to 1.0.2. VDR promises to deliver virtual machine disk-to-disk backup and recovery solution with integrated de-duplication that was before only …
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(Take Care) vSphere Virtual Machine Upgrade Process
I decided to name this post as “Take Care” as I found myself looking for promissed VSphere features that will not be avaiable in most Corporate environments therefore you should prepare yourself, and your environment. While I as upgrading my VM’s from 3.x to VSphere I based my work on this great step-by-step article from …
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