Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work in a lab environment. Some of the work I’m doing is quite important to me so I decided to workout a way I can backup my VM’s onto a backup device. To my surprise this was pretty simple to do.
Whether your using iSCSI, FC SAN, NFS or even local storage, it’s crucial to make sure you have your storage set up correctly to get the best performance, reliability and availability for your data. Fortunately I was given a copy of EMC’s book; Information, Storage And Management.
Just a quick post about using ESXTOP with VMware ESXi. Obviously in ESXi there is no Service Console so we have to use the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) to help us.
When trying to change the Preferred Path on Storage Adapter I was greeted with the following Error message: Unable to cast object of type ‘LogicalUnitPolicy’ to type ‘FixedLogicalUnitPolicy’
When trying to power on an old VM I was greeted with this message: The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
This is the question I have been asking myself since Data Robotics demo’ed the products to myself and the other delegates. If I’m honest, I’m still not sure.
Veeam have just released some White Papers all written by VMware vExperts.
This post documents the procedure to install HP’s SNMP agents on ESX 4.
Why, oh why, oh why, has every man and his dog started calling everything Cloud? Cloud Hosting, Cloud Apps, Cloud Services? Is it me, or was it only 6 months ago that these were called Virtual Hosting, Web Apps, Web Services? What’s changed?
I am in the process of planning for a large infrastructure upgrade from ESX3.5 to vSphere 4. As part of the planning I've been looking at Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware Versions. Currently all VM's are running Version 4, but as we migrate to ESX4 we will have the option to upgrade to Version 7.
