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New Academic/Tech Paper on FT
I received this Paper a while back and think it is an excellent read. I just copied a random part of the paper to give you an idea of what it covers. There’s not much more to say about it then just...
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Standby vCenter Server for disaster recovery
I was reading through some documentation and found a piece on creating a cold Standby vCenter server. This used to be a common practice with vCenter 2.5 and it worked well as vCenter itself was more...
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“Hacking” Site Recovery Manager (SRM) / a Storage Array Adapter
** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** Last week I received a question and I figured I would dive in to...
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Fiddling around with SRM’s Storage Replication Adapter – Part II
** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** After my article this week about (ab) using the SRA provided...
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vCloud Director infrastructure resiliency solution
By Chris Colotti (Consulting Architect, Center Of Excellence) and Duncan Epping (Principal Architect, Technical Marketing) This article assumes the reader has knowledge of vCloud Director, Site...
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Digging deeper into the VDS construct
The following comment was made on my VDS blog and I figured while would investigate this a bit further: It seems like the ESXi host only tries to sync the vDS state with the storage at boot and never...
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VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study paper published!
Yesterday the paper that Chris Colotti and I were working on titled “VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study” was finally published. This white paper is an expansion on the blog...
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DR of View persistent linked clone desktops…
I know some of you have been waiting for this so I wanted to share some early results. I was in the UK last week and we managed to get an environment configured using persistent linked clone virtual...
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Update: VMware vCloud Director DR paper available in Kindle / iBooks format!
I just received a note that the DR paper for vCloud Director is finally available in both epub / mobi format. So if you have an e-reader make sure to download this format as it will render a lot...
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Demo time – vCloud Director 5.1 disaster recovery demo
When I was playing with the new vCloud Director 5.1 and Site Recovery Manager 5.1 I figured I would record a demo of the DR solution that Chris Colotti and I developed. The demo is fairly straight...
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VMware View Infrastructure Resiliency whitepaper published
One of the white papers I worked on in 2012 when I was part of Technical Marketing was just published. This white paper is about VMware View infrastructure resiliency. It is a common question from...
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Automating vCloud Director Resiliency whitepaper released
About a year ago I wrote a whitepaper about vCloud Director resiliency, or better said I developed a disaster recovery solution for vCloud Director. This solution allows you to fail-over vCloud...
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Rubrik 2.0 release announced today
Advertise here with BSAToday the Rubrik 2.0 release was announced. I’ve written about who they are and what they do twice now so I am not going to repeat that. If you haven’t read those articles...
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VMworld 2015: Site Recovery Manager 6.1 announced
Advertise here with BSAThis week Site Recovery Manager 6.1 was announced. There are many enhancements in SRM 6.1 like the integration with NSX for instance and policy driven protection, but personally...
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data copy management / converged data management / secondary storage
Advertise here with BSAAt the Italian VMUG I was part of the “Expert panel” at the end of the event. One of the questions was around innovation in the world of IT, what should be next. I knew...
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vSphere 6.5 what’s new – VVols
Advertise here with BSAWell I guess I can keep this one short, what is new for VVols? Replication. Yes, that is right… finally if you ask me. This is something I know many of my customers have been...
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vSphere Replication 6.5, 5 minute RPO for ALL!
Advertise here with BSAI just noticed the following in the vSphere Replication 6.5 release notes which I felt was worth sharing: 5-minute Recovery Point Objective (RPO) support for additional data...
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Rubrik update >> 3.1
Advertise here with BSAIt has been a while since I wrote about Rubrik. This week I was briefed by Chris Wahl on what is coming in their next release, which is called Cloud Data Management 3.1. As...
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