Symantec has just released the newest version of NetBackup - 7.6.1. There are some new features for VMware backups: NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client The plug-in allows virtualization administrators to access the following functionality directly from within the vSphere Web Client administration console: Monitoring and reporting of VM backups Self-service restores of VMs… Read More »
EMC ScaleIO is a software-only server-based storage area network (SAN) that converges storage and compute resources to form a single-layer. It uses existing local disks and LANs so that the host can realize a virtual SAN with all the benefits of external storage. The ScaleIO software consists of three software components: Meta Data Manager (MDM)… Read More »
In this article, we discuss pros and cons of vSphere Management Cluster. I decided to write this article because I have seen many VMware environments without this type of cluster and with problems caused by this. Example, recently one of my new customers had a problem with vCenter VM and they were not able to… Read More »