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New Virtualization Manager from SolarWinds – product review. Virtualization Manager enables you to manage and monitor virtual environments. You’ll see that the deployment process is easy and the user interface is nice and intuitive. Virtualization Manager helps administrators to do capacity planning where you’ll see when you need to add more hardware in your datacenter. You can also ...

According to George Crump, the celebrated virtualization and storage senior analyst for Storage Switzerland, LLC, the foremost data protection challenge IT personnel face is whether or not their server backups will be certain to recover if disaster strikes. Older verification methods rarely succeed. Legacy backup software employing block-level verification does little to inspire confidence, be...

VM Storage Perfomance. Today’s virtual environments demand constant application of effort towards maintaining the highest possible service levels with no overhead. Existing physical storage investments are not yielding their optimal benefit due to file system limitations at the OS level, and inefficient resource allocation leads to frequent service bottlenecks. The V-locity® 3 virtual pla...

Free Tool –  Veeam One Free Edition. Veeam Monitor was the Free tool from Veeam that everyone knew about since long time. Now Veeam has new offer where not only Veeam Monitor is included but also Reporter and Business View – a Free Bundle called Veeam One Free. Veeam Monitor shows the resource consumption and workloads for hosts, clusters and datastores. You got the visibility a...

Free E-book: How to setup nested VMware vSphere lab on a PC or laptop? Ever wanted to test the latest vSphere Suite without having enough hardware? Features like vMotion, Fault Tolerance, DRS (distributed ressource scheduler) or HA (High Availability) can be tested in nested environment by using VMware Workstation. Since the release of VMware Workstation 8, there is no need to hack VMX configu...

ESXi 5 Free hypervisor memory limits in small business and other thoughts. I often hear from small customers the complains about the price about VMware licensing. But look, there is a free offer with entreprise class VMware hypervisor – vSphere 5 Hypervisor (formerly Free ESXi 5). Most of SMBs in Europe are small shops, that’s why we call them SMB – small business firms. In U...

IOPS - I/O Operations Per Second New White paper from vKernel explains IOPS, which is not an easy topic, but you’ll get some advices at the end which are useful. What IOPS mean – In and Out Operations per Second. The discussion in this document focusing on IOPS, and how storage I/O is an often over-simplified topic. The author is Brad Bonn from vKernel and he explains what are I...

Starwind Software just released new version of popular iSCSI SAN software. After several months in the beta, the product is finally available to the public. Starwind Native SAN for Hyper-V 5.8 has been officially released. The Starwind Native SAN for Hyper-V enables you to leverage the local disks present in your Windows servers and create shared storage. By having shared storage with at least...

VMturbo has released Operations Manager 3.0 New major upgrade to VMturbo’s flagship product has just been released with XenServer and vCloud Director support. In previous release of VMturbo’s product the VMware vSphere and Hyper-V has been supported already. The product licensing suite stays as before – per physical CPU socket, with Free Community edition, which is Full Produ...

Where to recover lost storage space in your virtual infrastructure? The storage space on your shared storage, where you VMs lays out is precious and expensive. In this new whitepaper from vKernel which title says it all - Removing Data Waste from Virtualized Storage – you’ll be able to learn the basics. To identify the waste space which can be recovered and used again for your pro...

Why would you vote for ESX Virtualization? As every year, there is time to vote for your favorite virtualization blog. This competition organized by Eric Siebert every year. Last time when this competition has been organized, ESX Virtualization was in the TOP 25 blogs, but this time I wish (I hope) even better result. Eric Siebert announcen in his post here, that there are now over 180 blog...

My Partnership with Stratogen – a Cloud Datacenter Service Provider I’m very excited to announce to my readers that I have a new partner. The partner is Stratogen. Those of you who do not know Stratogen as a VMware vCloud Director Service provider, read on. At first I have been offered a free account at their London datacenter. This was at the end of last year. I did not have much ...

VMware vSphere 5 Training from Trainsignal – my review. This latest Trainsignal’s training wasn’t reviewed on my site yet, and I have been kindly provided with this possibility by David Davis, so I’m very glad that I can show to my readers with an exact and honest opinion on what to expect when buying this training course. Right now I’m preparing to upgrade my VCP...

VMware View 5 Trainings by VMware Education. Those two new trainings are available now from VMware Education. The year of VDI is 2012, so get the best of the best trainings with one of the 2 new training courses. On small scale deployment you might want to test by yourself in your lab like I did. You can have a look at my lab experience – VMware View 5 Install, configure – How to d...

VCP 510 Ressources – not exhaustive list of resources and links. As I need to refresh my VMware VCP certification to the latest vSphere 5 with the VCP 510 exam - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manager [V5.0], I decided to create this blog post where I will put all the available documents and materials together with the experience of users which are already passed this exam. The exp...

vKernel continues to innovate with vOps 4.5 Released yesterday, with major release upgrade, vKernel’s vOps 4.5 brings some major enhancements and new features to it’s flagship product – vOps 4.5. Based on the same analytics engine – Capacity Analytics Engine™ – as the free product – vScope Explorer -  see my post on it from VMworld Copenhagen 2011 this ye...

Register to get your free NFR license from Veeam. Announced yesterday, some great news from Veeam Software providing vExperts, VCPs, VCI, VMUG Members, MCP and MVPs withFree NFR license of Veeam Backup & Replication v6 for 2 CPU sockets for VMware and Hyper-V. Their Flagship software Veeam Backup and Replication v6 went out a couple of days back, I reported on the what’s new whitepap...

Some best guidelines for VMware Converter 5 in order to avoid known issues. At first, VMware Converter 5 is a software which permits you to convert physical server (or PC) into Virtual Machine. This magical piece of this free software can at the same time align properly the destination VM’s virtual disks in order to get the best possible performance. In every new release of VMware Conver...

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New book in preorder at Amazon. This new book written by Simon Gallagher, who is a creator of vTARDIS system. vTARDIS is basically a Single -box-server running nested ESXi hypervisors. The goal of such configuration is learning. Learning vSphere infrastructure, learning networking when you’re on a budget. Simon got awarded last year at VMworld Europe 2010 user awards. His blog at vinf.ne...

PHD Virtual released new product – PHD Virtual Monitor. PHD Virtual Monitor 10.0.1 – a new update of the product from PHD Virtual. This product is compatible not only with VMware vSphere, but also with Citrix XenServer. The product can monitor not only the physical hypervisors and their respective VMs, but also the surrounding physical infrastructure (servers, switches, routersR...

vCloud connector – the key for hybrid clouds. vCloud Connector 1.5 has been announced at VMware. The version 1.5 brought some enhancements and new functionalities over the version 1.0. vCloud connector is the key for transferring workloads from one cloud to another. From your private cloud data-center at your company to public cloud at some service provider.  It’s to tool which is...

The biggest Contest ever organized at ESX Virtualization is about to kick on… The dust has settled down after VMworld Copenhagen 2011 this year, and I’m about to announce The biggest ESX Virtualization contest ever organized. I hope that you guys don’t let me down and there will be a lot of participants, because there are some good prices to win! Yes, I have 3 Sponsors for th...

Unpublished :  VMworld Copenhagen 2011. With more than a week delay (sorry about that) I had this photo taken by the Starwind’s Booth, which haven’t been published. I stopped by at the Starwind’s booth at the VMworld Copenhagen 2011 to get some fresh news about Starwind, what is coming etc.. In fact the news has been around since few months, that Starwind does prepare The St...

During the VMworld Copenhagen 2011 VMware has introduced new managements suites for VMware vSphere 5. Those management products are destined for enterprises which want to manage and optimize, and monitor their IT infrastructure with products from VMware which are tailored for vSphere 5. Make the IT more efficient, more reliable. In larger enterprises is no longer possible to track for example ...