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Ransomware Gone in 1 minute with VMware Cloud

Sun, 10 May 2020 21:33:02 +0000

I hope you are all having a great day and a happy Mother’s day! Here is how I used the VMware Cloud on AWS to recover from a Ransomware infection in .... 1 minute ....! Some things must be seen to be believed!

Disaster! I moved my Citrix Farm to VMware Cloud in 8 minutes

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:13:36 +0000

I hope you are all having a great day at home. I recently posted on Twitter that I have executed DR from on-prem to the VMware Cloud on AWS of my entire Citrix Farm, including Active Directory, Delivery Controllers, VPN, and persistent desktops. As it got much attention, I decided to record a video; it's only about 4 minutes. Some things must be seen to be believed!

I failed back my VMs from the VMware Cloud

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:37:11 +0000

Disaster Recovery is one of the most complex exercises IT will endeavor. From infra and data replication to applications and orchestration, it is hard! In this 2nd video, I show how to easily failback VMs from VMware Cloud on AWS.

I saved my datacenter in 4 minutes

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:52:52 +0000

DR is one of the most complex exercises IT will endeavour. In this video you will see how I executed DR for a couple of VMware VMs to the VMware Cloud in 4 minutes.

Here is why I copied the StorageReview Performance Benchmark for MySQL on Datrium... but there was a Gotcha!

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:47:38 +0000

If you want to benchmark a storage subsystem, it's best to use pre-existing benchmarks to be able to compare results. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I just copied the configuration and tests performed by our good friends at StorageReview. (https://www.storagereview.com/node/3598)

DRaaS Connect gives LOVE to SAN/NAS and HCI with VMware Cloud Integration (...and Instant RTO)

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:37:16 +0000

Datrium announces integration with VMware Cloud for Disaster Recovery for customers using SAN, NAS, and HCI.

It's been fun writing about Datrium tech over the past few years as it unfolded as a cloud-first data management stack without leaving behind its on-prem components. Datrium is genuinely the multi-cloud solution that CIOs and Operators always dreamed of - a high-performance platform with integrated data management, backup, and Disaster Recovery policies that follow Apps wherever they go.

VMware Horizon now has DR to VMware Cloud on AWS

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:06:48 +0000

For as long as I can remember, VMware Horizon lacked a practical way to achieve DR, be it on-premise or in the cloud. To achieve DR, administrators had to abstract components of the solution, virtualize applications, manually replicate golden images and make heavy use of non-persistent desktops. Still, even like that, it was very complex to have an effective DR solution that cater for business requirements.

Innovators' Challenge - Normalizing the Clouds

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:35:45 +0000

The Old Lock-in Problem

Before VMware, there used to be three or four large block storage companies: IBM, EMC, HP, etc., and each produced their proprietary storage systems.

Datrium DR-as-a-Service Networking with VMware Cloud (VMC)

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:42:32 +0000

During VMworld Datrium launched a unique DRaaS solution completely integrated into VMware Cloud on AWS. At a high-level DRaaS if a complete DR solution offered as a subscription that leverages the VMware Cloud and native Datrium cloud-based backups to deliver a fully-orchestrated low cost, low RPO and lower RTO disaster recovery for VMware customers.

World’s 1st Just-in-Time Cloud DR (VMware Cloud)... Everything Techies Need to Know....

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:26:23 +0000

No, the title of this post isn't a clickbait.

Organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to keep Disaster Recovery (DR) datacenters operational while they wait for disaster to strike so they can realize that huge upfront and ongoing investment, but at the same time crossing fingers and hoping that the tragedy never happens. In many ways, DR datacenters are like insurance with huge upfront premiums.

VMware Cloud + Datrium = Awesome Recovery!!

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:17:09 +0000

VMware is the de-facto standard for the enterprise datacenter, and AWS has the broadest set of cloud services with global scale and reach. If you not aware, both companies have jointly engineered a cloud solution that delivers the best of VMware and AWS for customers. The VMware Cloud on AWS has a massive global presence.

ControlShift Series - Seamless Orchestrated VM Failback from DR Site

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:47:08 +0000

This is my 3rd post on this Datrium native DR series, and this time around, I demo the unique DR Failback of VMware VMs between sites and vCenters. Many solutions provide orchestrated failover, but Failback is the tough part and where most fail. See for yourself how Datrium handles it beautifully!

Datrium 5.0 Features Overview and Big Welcome to Automatrix (Beyond Marketing)

Wed, 15 May 2019 10:18:15 +0000

It’s that time again… Datrium is dropping a new release with awesome features! This is one those long posts… be patient, get a coffee and read through, or simply go to the section that you are interested in.

Datrium is gaining market share, and FUD escalates to new levels. Here I technically dismiss legacy vendor FUD against Datrium.

Thu, 09 May 2019 13:38:46 +0000

No matter what, when up and coming technology vendors start to disrupt legacy players, the amount of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) broadcasted by such vendors increase. Datrium being the major disruptor to the legacy storage and HCI business make competitors starting to spread ‘misguided’ information about our technology.

Time For a Sea Change….. New Country, New Objectives, and New Challenges!

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:43:33 +0000

Technology is ever-changing and in most cases improving how humans live, and for many of us in the tech space to have the opportunity to be amongst tech entrepreneurs, product engineering, venture capital and the tech giants like Google, Facebook, VMware, Apple, is a dream come true.

Oracle + Datrium Encryption Benchmark with Near-Zero Performance Impact

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:39:32 +0000

This is my 4th article on the topic of Datrium + Oracle, and for this article, I focus on Datrium's ability to provide native FIPS 140-2 compliant software-based end-to-end encryption with near-zero performance impact for Oracle and Busines Critical Applications workloads.

Datrium + Kubernetes with VMware vSphere

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:35:06 +0000

You may configure any Kubernetes distribution to access VMware vSphere VMDK Volumes. This includes using VMware vSphere VMDK Volumes as persistent volumes for application data with Datrium. The vSphere Cloud Provider allows using vSphere managed storage for Volumes, Persistent volumes, Storage classes, and provisioning volumes. Datrium presents a single-namespace (or multiple) datastore to vSphere that is then abstracted by Kubernetes.

Docker Bare-Metal - Persistent Volumes with Datrium GraphDriver Plug-In (How-to)

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:04:26 +0000

Datrium supports various flavors of container management orchestration platforms, but independent of the orchestration platform, containers can be of persistent or transient nature. Both types may require some level of persistent storage, either to retain data across instances or to temporarily store configuration data.

Why Datrium DVX is Best for VDI - by Simon Long and André Leibovici

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:38:17 +0000

I have written in the past about how awesome Datrium DVX is for VDI, and how it removes numerous challenges in deploying and scaling solutions in single or multi-datacenter rollouts.

Most HCI vendors are continuously claiming to solve VDI challenges, but they are regularly focused on the day-one rollout – not the problems to operate VDI environment in the long run.

VMworld 2018 Talk: Existing Choices to Leverage VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) for DR [VMTN5977U]

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:23:04 +0000

This is the recording for my VMworld 2018 talk where I discuss existing all available alternatives to leverage VMware Cloud on AWS as an effective workload destination during disaster recovery.

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net

World’s First Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Data Fabric with Initial support for VMware Cloud - Welcome Datrium CloudShift!

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:14:35 +0000

Ok, you got here! However, before you start reading and give up in the middle of a long post, let me tell you that what Datrium is announcing today is a generational improvement to existing Disaster Recovery and Hybrid Cloud platforms for many reasons – so it is crucial to understand how we got here.

Hands Down the Ultimate VDI Platform - 2018 Review

Mon, 14 May 2018 08:46:21 +0000

Back in 2014 when I left VMware and joined Nutanix, I wrote two articles entitled "Hands Down the Ultimate VDI platform" (here and here) explaining how hyperconvergence and more specifically Nutanix were the perfect platforms for running VDI - and in all honesty that was one of the primary reasons I left VMware EUC CTO Office. I saw the opportunity to help thousands of organizations struggling with VDI deployments....and I was right, hyperconvergence is pretty much the default deployment model for VDI nowadays.

Is there an Optimization Limit for Applications and Databases? PostgreSQL and Datrium Demonstration.

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:00:44 +0000

No matter how much you tune and optimize your application workload, there's always something else that can take the performance a little further, besides of course replacing the physical hardware with something a little more modern and faster.

I wrote an article entitled "PostgreSQL Benchmark on Datrium – 4.3 Million TPS with 1 GB RAM – and some Frustration!" a little while ago, and then I published another short post on 'Software-Defined-Storage Architectures, a gift that keeps on giving! PostgreSQL and Datrium.' demonstrating performance improvements driven by software-defined-storage stacks while leveraging microprocessor advancements.

Data Integrity Should Be Taken Very Seriously

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:43:34 +0000

By now it is pretty clear that Datrium is one of the only Convergence and/or Storage vendors that has been entirely open about performance, not hiding numbers or gaming performance benchmarks.

Check out this article by Ganesh and Dhazi on our real performance numbers... What Separates The Storage Industry’s Men From Boys? Random Writes! or read this white-paper on Real-World Microsoft SQL Server Performance On Datrium DVX.

What makes Datrium VSS Snapshots Special & Better?

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:57:42 +0000

VSS (Volume Shadow-Copy Service) is a Microsoft Windows service that allows backup and snapshot applications to “quiesce” applications –, i.e., put them on a consistent on-disk state before taking a backup. Application-consistent snapshots are used to ensure on-disk consistency for applications, and they can also help reduce recovery time for database applications.

Datrium DVX Cloud to AWS Cloud in Less than 60 Seconds

Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:51:44 +0000

In this version of the Datrium DVX we are demonstrating archival of snapshots from the on-prem DVX to AWS S3 without ever leaving vCenter UI. This presents our customers with the ability to protect their infrastructure data both in the on-prem DVX cloud and off site in AWS DVX cloud repositories.

Datrium 3.0 Features Overview (Beyond Marketing) – Part 2

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:01:43 +0000

Last month Datrium announced the first part of the DVX 3.0 payload and I blogged here; and today we are announcing the second part. In the first announcement, Datrium took us where no HCI vendor has been before, offering not only a multi-hypervisor platform (VMware vSphere, RedHat Virtualization and Open-source KVM on CentOS hosts), but also adding support for bare-metal containers on Linux hosts, both with granular data management.

vExperts, vExperts, vExperts...win, win, win...Datrium goes Galore at VMworld 2017!

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:32:52 +0000

Another VMworld is upon us, and I couldn’t be more excited about attending the conference with Datrium. Datrium technology excites me as much as Hyperconvergence did five years ago, and VDI did ten years ago ...and Datrium is going big time for this VMworld.

Top vBlog 2017 is now Open. Please Vote and Support Bloggers!

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:37:44 +0000

Eric Siebert has opened the Top vBlog for this year's voting with sponsorship support from Turbonomic. This blog myvirtualcloud.net has ranked 14th place for the last four years, coming down from the 17th and 39th in years before.

All bloggers do an excellent job, using their personal time to share experiences and challenges with the broader community. I also found myself in work and technology transition, moving companies and trying to talk and demonstrate different viewpoints and technologies.

Nutanix 4.7 and Asterix Features Overview (Beyond Marketing)

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:53:36 +0000

Another 4 months passed since AOS 4.6 was released and a new major Nutanix release with new features and improvements is about to be made available. The velocity with which new features and improvements are released by Nutanix is only comparable to what we see in the consumer space where apps are updated at an amazing pace for user’s delight.