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Performance tuning Hyper-V is something of an art form. There are countless things that Hyper-V admins can do in an effort to improve performance. Even so, it is best to start your performance tuning efforts by focusing on some of the things that make the most difference. Before You Begin When it comes to Hyper-V performance tuning, the most important thing to keep in mind [...]

Storage is at the heart of virtualization performance. Often, if there is an issue with virtual machine performance, it comes down to improperly configured or over-provisioned storage. Storage performance is key to making sure a virtualization deployment on any hypervisor is successful. There are definitely important storage metrics that must be considered both in sizing for a greenfield installation as well as monitored in day [...]

vRealize Log Insight is one of these underrated VMware products that have been around for a few years but haven’t received the attention they deserve. Originally named vCenter Log Insight, the first release was in September 2013 and the product was taken incredibly far since then with constant investment in it by VMware. This product benefits from a short update cycle with a new release [...]

Introduction Have you ever had to create 10, 30 or maybe 50 Virtual Machines in a short time period? Or modify a setting on all of your hosts? For example, enabling the SSH service? To automate tasks and repetitive actions, you must create your own scripts! You do not need to automate complex tasks to save time. Sometimes, automating a very simple task can help [...]

Preparing any virtualization environment for high availability is a necessary requirement for running production workloads. High availability ensures that if you have failures in the underlying infrastructure, your production workloads remain available. Generally speaking, you want no single point of failure that could lead to taking your entire infrastructure down. When thinking about engineering and building out a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you [...]

Why Automation? Automation is the king of the hill when thinking about operational efficiency with development as well as operations in today’s fast-paced world of IT. Environments are simply moving too fast and have to be agile such that manual operations management is simply not feasible any longer. This also applies to data protection in today’s scenario as well. Virtualization environments today generally run many [...]

There’s been a growing buzz on the much anticipated new free version of the Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1. While a few enterprise businesses are aware of deploying a potential data protection solution to their infrastructures, a huge chunk of about 58% businesses aren’t prepared for data loss and don’t have a data protection solution either. Most Small and Medium Businesses tend to forgo the concept [...]

When thinking about security mechanisms that can be used, most organizations may think about endpoint security, firewalls, SPAM filters, UTM devices, etc. While all of those mechanisms are certainly important in the multi-layered security approach that is required in securing today’s environments, there is one other important part of security that many may not readily think about – backups. Are Backups part of an organization’s [...]

Every business has specific requirements with regards to the availability (uptime) of their applications. Digital transformation is gradually evolving applications of nearly every type of business into business-critical applications. When applications are unavailable, most companies are unable to run their business. While ‘born in the cloud’ applications, called Cloud Native Apps, are self-proficient in meeting uptime requirements and don’t rely all that much on the [...]