vCenter is down - impact on VMware infrastructure.

Over the past few months, I have seen posts or been asked what happens when vCenter is down. Everybody probably knows that vCenter is a heart of VMware infrastructure installed as Appliance (VCSA) or Windows machine. The main vCenter features are as follows: Central management of VMware environments - allows you to manage VM's across… Read More »

NetBackup Accelerator - design considerations.

NetBackup Accelerator is a powerful feature introduced in NetBackup 7.5 for files. Since NetBackup 7.6 we can use this feature to backup virtual machine in VMware environment and since NetBackup 7.7.1 to backup NetApp Filers via NDMP. Just for a quick reminder on what NetBackup Accelerator is - it provides full backups for the cost… Read More »