Vembu Backup and DR Software – Revisited
In January of 2017, Sander did a review of Vembu BDR. Albeit a short one, he does state that Vembu is on the right track and if you’re looking for a quick and easy backup toolkit, Vembu is one you should take a look it….
Health check your vSphere environment using Runecast Analyzer
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of testing the new version of Runecast Analyzer, version 2.0. Being a Cloud Management specialist at VMware, I’ve heard of Runecast but I default to vRealize Operations when it comes to managing a vSphere environment. So, I never had any…
So Cloud Automation Services are here, what’s next? How can I use it?
In previous posts on VMGuru.com we introduced VMware’s new SaaS-based Cloud Automation Services, Cloud Assembly, Service Broker and Code Stream. In our next series of posts Erik and I will explain several technical details of the different Cloud Automation Services and how to use them, starting…
New Lab Stuff
Some time ago, back in December of 2015, I started a three-part story on how to have a supported SMB or lab environment. It consisted of a couple of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Microserver Gen 8’s and a NAS by QNAP. Check out the three part…
Having a look at Vembu BDR
Over the weekend I have been looking into Vembu BDR, which is a suite of Backup and Replication products. In this article I will make a general description of the Vembu BDR features and initial configuration to get a backup job running. The Vembu BDR Suite…
Monitoring Firewall Rules with vRealize Network Insight
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) is most famous for its ability to help you with getting insight into your virtual traffic flows. Using that information you have all you need to configure micro-segmentation. vRNI is much more than that though and this post is the first…
A low budget SMB environment – A HowTo (Part 1: Parts and budget)
As the last days of 2015 tick away, I wanted to share how I came about my new lab environment without spending a fortune. Some of you might want to set some goals for the new year and this might be some interesting input. My…
vRealize Log Insight quick interface Walkthrough
In the last post I described why log monitoring is important and what you can use to monitor your logfiles and how you can deploy vRealize Log Insight. In this post I will walk you through the interface. It will be a short post, since the…
Login PI 1.0 now available
I’ts finally here: Login PI 1.0. If you haven’t read our article in December, here’s a short recap on what Login PI is. You probably heard of Login VSI. With Login VSI you can do load testing and benchmarking. It is often used to test a new…
Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere a book review
As VMGuru we are virtualizing all kind of business critical applications since 2005. Virtualizing Oracle Databases on vSphere is often part of those projects. I must express tho that none of us is an Oracle DBA, but we are often involved in virtualization projects were their…
PCoIP Zero Client by Philips
Recently a product came to my attention from a vendor I did not expect. Philips introduced an integrated PCoIP zero client they call the Philips Cloud Monitor Base, model SB4B1927VB . It comes in the form factor of a monitor stand, where the zero client…
VMware EVO:Rail – Datacenter deployment EVOlution style and what you should know about it
At VMworld 2014 US VMware’s EVO:Rail was introduced. EVO:Rail is the next step in converged infrastructures, it’s the world’s first hyperconverged infrastructure appliance, fully run on VMware. A number of hardware vendors are on board with EVO:Rail. Dell, Fujitsu and Supermicro are on…
Diablo Memory Channel Storage: The new Flash storage standard?
During VMworld we had the opportunity to sit down with Ricky Trigalo en Kevin Wagner from Diablo technologies to talk about their storage solution called “Memory Channel Storage” (MCS). Basically this means that you insert NAND flash memory into a memory bank instead of your standard…
Hands-on labs: Horizon 6 with View
Earlier this year Alex wrote an article about the release of VMware horizon 6. Today I had the opportunity to sit down at the hands-on labs and take a look at Horizon View 6. Two things, I was particularly interested in where the…