There are various tasks that a Hyper-V administrator can perform to keep a Windows Server Hyper-V environment running optimally. One task that comes with maintaining and optimizing a Hyper-V environment is making sure the actual virtual disks themselves are running optimally and are efficiently sized. [...]
In today’s virtualized world in the enterprise datacenter, often, we no longer think about physical devices. However, there are times when physical devices must be connected to virtual machine guest operating systems. Perhaps one of the most common types of “physical” devices that can be [...]
Drilling through vSphere events and tasks is one of the first things any administrator does when troubleshooting an issue or even just looking to know who did something on an entity. If you work with VMware products, you may have noticed that going back in [...]
Windows Server 2019 contains many great new features and the continued evolution of many of the features and functionality that were introduced in Windows Server 2016 such as Storage Spaces Direct. One of the great new enhancements with Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct is [...]
December automatically brings up Christmas vibes. For us, those in the Backup & Disaster Recovery industry, March automatically brings “World Backup Day” vibes. First things first. It’s not fair to proceed narrating the significance of backup day without mentioning its history. World Backup Day (WBD) [...]
Today's business have a heavy dependence on applications for their operations and thus look towards measures to keep their applications always available. Why do applications need to be always available? Almost every business is reliant on the applications that are running in their environment. This [...]
Properly designing VMware vSphere infrastructure is one of the primary keys to ensuring the vSphere environment performs correctly and is able to present a highly available infrastructure resource for business-critical virtual machines. The VMware vSphere cluster is one of the basic building blocks of vSphere [...]
In case you haven’t been keeping up with network virtualization from VMware, there are a couple of variants of network virtualization. They are NSX-V and NSX-T. While NSX-V is the very first network virtualization platform released by VMware and the product that started VMware on [...]
Our heartfelt thanks to all the attendees of the Vembu Roadshow at the Emerald City - Seattle, for helping us have a successful event. Vembu organized this roadshow to understand the present-day bottlenecks on data protection and the requirements for the future. We are overwhelmed [...]
There are many design considerations to be made when it comes to designing a VMware vSphere Software-Defined Data Center. Among the many aspects of the design that need to be considered include the physical network transferring packets in the VMware vSphere infrastructure. While today’s software-defined [...]
