It is critically important when provisioning new infrastructure to consider the best practices and supported designs from the vendor to implement the technology in a way that is supported, performs well, and is stable. VMware has a set of design documents that allow customers to [...]
One of the critical areas of Hyper-V performance is the network. Network traffic is what allows all of the Hyper-V functionality and features to operate in the cluster. Like storage performance and validation, verifying network performance and validating a network design is a critical component [...]
Storage virtualization has been around for many years now and is only getting more and more traction as it goes. VMware's vSAN is no exception with more than 14 000 customers worldwide. By leveraging local storage to create a shared datastore, it removes the complexity [...]
In my previous post, I explained how the concepts of Regions and Availability Zones can help you implement an Availability and Recoverability strategy that protects your data on the highest level. This blog post will explain how to configure Vembu BDR Suite as described. A [...]
It has been touted by many that Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI is finally going to see the year of mass adoption. Advancements in VDI technology either directly or indirectly have certainly had a positive impact on its adoption and feasibility of adoption for various [...]
Today’s challenging technology landscape utilizes many different kinds of solutions for critical applications. Organizations today look much different from a technology perspective than they did 10 or 20 years ago. The technology landscape is vastly different than only a few years ago. Today’s businesses are [...]
Introduction Hyper-V replication is an essential feature for any organization. It will allow you to restore an up-to-date copy of your Virtual Machines very quickly. Please note that Hyper-V replication is not similar to backup! Let’s imagine that your primary host hardware failed, then you [...]
Backups are the thing that test your network system more than anything else. When backing up the data, bandwidth plays a vital role since it directly affects the performance of a backup solution. That is why, it is important to properly provision the bandwidth for [...]
In this how-to blog post, we go through how to install and configure vCenter High Availability (HA) in the version 6.5U2d build 10964411, we will also discuss options, requirements and how vCenter HA works. Before starting let us have a quick look what was fix [...]
If you read the part 1 of this series about the SRM module, you should now be able to connect to Site Recovery Manager from within Powershell and have the $defaultsrmservers variable at your mercy. Meaning you are ready to start looking at how to [...]
