Storage is one of the most critical resources in vSphere environment. There are some important parameters during design of storage that should be taken into consideration such as block size, disk types, required I/O, bandwidth etc. The mentioned parameters generally are used to design a storage but unfortunately, there is one important thing that can… Read More »
In this part of deploying RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 4.2, I will show how to create and configure vRPA Cluster. Before creating a vRPA Cluster, please ensure that the following prerequisites are met: Installing the RecoverPoint for VMs splitter on each ESXi host in the ESXi cluster. Configuring Software iSCSI Adapters on every ESXi host.… Read More »
This post covers a feature introduced in vSphere 5.5 - VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC). VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) is a feature that provides server side read cache from local solid-state devices (SSDs - PCIe flash cards or solid-state drives). By using local flash storage, vFRC creates a large, low latency read… Read More »