The much awaited VMware vSphere 6.7 is here! I’m sure all of us have been gearing up for its release. Now that it is here finally, we can dive right in and see what it holds for us. The major update has been improvement in performance along with other upgrades. So, what does VMware vSphere 6.7 have in store? Follow [...]
VMware SRM authentication - What changed Site Recovery Manager is VMware's well knows disaster recovery orchestrator software that has been around for many years now. This product keeps getting better and better at every release but some of the shiny new features often steal the spotlight of other less known, under-the-hood improvements. The authentication mechanism of SRM was one of [...]
One of the tremendous advantages of virtualization platforms like Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is the ability to make the production virtual machine workloads highly available. High availability is essential for business-critical applications as it provides a mechanism to withstand hardware failures without these drastically impacting the virtualized resources that are being served out. Windows Server Hyper-V clustering is built on [...]
As always a lot of new features come with new major version but VMware invested a lot in the latest version 6.7 of VSAN and brought us a lot of exciting things stretching from the support model to advanced technical improvements. In this post, we are going to highlight all this goodness. HTML5 web interface Awaited for a long time, [...]
Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is a powerful, mature virtualization platform being utilized by enterprise environments today. If well-designed and architected, Hyper-V clusters are stable and problem free much as any well-architected system, outside of hardware failures. However, monitoring any infrastructure resource, including Hyper-V clusters is a necessary part of a good administration. Virtualization admins who administer Hyper-V environments will want [...]
Introduction As an IT administrator, you probably perform a lot of tasks and procedures to keep your infrastructure up to date. You probably also automate many day-to-day tasks to save your time. Scripting is a great way in order to automate your tasks but it requires scripting skills to be able to create your own scripts and to maintain these [...]
What is a Virtual Appliance? Virtual Appliance (VA) is a ready-to-use package with an Operating System and an Application. In general, Virtual Appliance is an image file of a Virtual Machine (VM) which is usually built to host a single application. VA can be directly deployed on Virtualization Platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix that provides a new way to employ [...]
With today’s high-speed WAN links and tremendously powerful features of Windows Failover Clustering that powers Hyper-V environments, organizations have many capabilities at their fingertips to solve various business problems or various use cases. Microsoft supports a configuration of Windows Failover Clustering called Geographically Dispersed Clusters (majority node set). They are also sometimes referred to as “Stretched Clusters” or “Geo-Clusters”. This [...]
Hyper-V lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time on one physical computer, by running each one in a virtual machine. Flexibility and performance are essential in your Hyper-V environment, so you may want to analyze your Hyper-V nodes by running the Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to ensure that everything works like a charm on your infrastructure. [...]
When it comes to virtualized environments and the strengths they bring to the table, there is no question that making infrastructure highly available is a strong suit of virtualization. Virtual machines are able to be spread across multiple hosts and have the ability to be restarted on another host if the virtual machine fails. Hyper-V has some really great high [...]
