Virtualization Archives - Page 11 of 15

Non VSS-Aware Application Backups with Veeam

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Most applications that run on Windows these days are VSS aware, sometimes however you run across an older server type application that is not. Combine that with snapshot-based backups and you could wind up with some issues if you ever…

vRAM, What About The Future?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Today VMware announced some big chanced to their vRAM Entitlements on vSphere 5, basically doubling the amount you can assign on the two enterprise levels and increasing all others by 33%. For more information check out Tim’s post. This will…

What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my second year attending VMworld, last year was a great time…

Migrating External SAS storage to VMware

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the MSA50 and its drives were added much later, the client…

Is vSphere 5 Storage Appliance a good buy?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

VMware is targeting SMB’s and branch offices for its latest vSphere add-on. The vSphere 5 Storage Appliance offers customers the choice of putting internal storage in their ESXi servers and then create a shared storage repository out of it. This…

vRAM: Some Good News

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

I was reading through some partner documentation and found two question and answers that I think will help ease some of the anger surrounding vRAM Entitlements in the VMware user community. This is pretty awesome news! I completely agree with…

vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more details about the new vRAM entitlements by visiting VMware.com or…

Host Isolation and VM Shutdown

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Over the weekend I was asked to determine why all virtual machines on a cluster were shutdown at 9:45AM on Sunday. There had been no storms, and the datacenter where this cluster is located has good cooling and great power,…

vSphere5: What SMB need to know

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

With the release of vSphere 5 comes what many are calling the “vRAM TAX”. If you haven’t heard of it check out this post I made the other day. Anyhow, there are also some other changes to the SMB packages…

vSphere 5 vRAM Considerations

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

July 12th VMware officially announced vSphere 5 and all of its awesome new features. One of these “features” is called vRam Entitlements. Basically what this “feature” does is limit the amount of physical RAM that you can put in your…