It's time to upgrade Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 in my lab 🙂 Soon I'm going to upgrade vsphere 5.5 to 6.0 so one of a step before is upgrading Zerto to the version supporting vSphere 6.0. Fortunately, Zerto 4.0 supports vSphere 6.0 already. This post covers how to upgrade Zerto Virtual Replication 3.5 to 4.0.… Read More »
As I mentioned in post about what’s new in vSphere 6.0, VMware announced that vSphere Data Protection Advanced will be included in Essentials+ or higher vSphere license! The features of VDPA are as follows: Scale up to 8Tb of deduplication (variable-length and global per appliance) storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. Support for up to… Read More »
VMware vSphere 6 provides some vMotion Enhancements. With vSphere 6.0 vMotion is being expanded to: vMotion across vCenter Servers. vMotion across virtual switches. Long Distance vMotion. Replication-Assisted vMotion. vMotion across vCenter Servers vSphere 6 introduces support for Cross vCenter vMotion and possibility to change compute, storage, networks, and management between data centers without disruption. … Read More »