Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) - a DR solution

Nowadays, disaster recovery is an important thing in every company. Heterogeneous environments and applications based on virtual, physical or cloud components bring an additional opportunity to create a disaster recovery plan (DRP) for them. A few years ago I heard about Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) which helps to address this challenge. I decided to check… Read More »

Integration PowerChute Network Shutdown with VMware

Recently during checking news on VMware Solutions Exchange page, I found that useful info is available there PowerChute Network Shutdown v4.3 for VMware. This software supports the graceful shutdown in a vSAN environment with support for Standard and Stretched clusters. PowerChute will issue a Maintenance Mode command for vSAN cluster hosts using the “No Action”… Read More »

vCenter (VCSA) on vSAN or local disks?

Recently I had an interesting discussion with my customer about vCenter (already VCSA) location that is not dependent on the central storage system (array) but prepared for high availability and disaster recovery. vCenter is an important VM for VMware Administrators and there would be an impact on infrastructure if it is down (e.g. Horizon View).… Read More »