Hands-on lab: Cloud Management with vRealize Operations
With no queue for the hands-on labs I took my opportunity and had a look at the Hands-on lab: Cloud Management with vRealize Operations Manager 6.0. This lab walks you trough the interface of vRealize Operations Manager and also describes some of the new…
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance
vCenter Server: Installable versus Appliance. Often when designing an infrastructure there is a choice to be made between the two options. Go for the easy and fast to deploy appliance or go for the scalable and flexible installation. Where with the previous version of ESX…
StarWind compared to VMware and Hyper-V
With both VMware and Microsoft developing software based storage solutions, we started to wonder what kind of edge a product like StarWind still would have on these solutions. When we asked StarWind, they quickly replied with a couple of feature comparison documents. These documents point out…
New release – Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V
If you’re a Hyper-V administrator, you need all the information you can get about host and guest VM resource utilization. However, when you don’t have any Hyper-V monitoring framework in place, you still can’t afford to work blind. Veeam released a new tool for the Hyper-V admins…
VMware Fling – VMware I/O Analyzer
VMware released a new version of their VMware I/O Analyzer Fling. VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. I/O Analyzer, supplied as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance, automates storage performance…
VMware Fling – ViewDbChk tool
VMware released a new VMware Fling, the ViewDbChk tool. The ViewDbChk tool allows administrators to scan for, and fix provisioning errors that can not be addressed using View Administrator. Provisioning errors occur when there are inconsistencies between the LDAP, vCenter and View Composer databases. These…
VMware Fling – VMware OS Optimization Tool
The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012 systems for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows system services…
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 3
In part 1 we finished the hardware installation of the Synology and setup of the DSM software. In part 2 we finished setting up the ESXi environment with iSCSI and the networking part which includes multipathing. In this final part 3 we will setup the…
HyTrust acquires HighCloud Security
Where Cloud visibility and control meets security. HyTrust Acquires HighCloud Security! Last year I had a very nice conversation with Eric Chiu about everything in the datacenter moving into software and the risky things around that move, today HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, …
Acronis vmProtect
Recently we where approached by Acronis if we would be interested in having a look at their backup and replication product called vmProtect. vmProtect is suitable for environments that have up to 100 virtual clients in a vSphere virtual infrastructure. The installation and reviewing is…
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 2
In part 1 we finished the hardware installation of the Synology and setup of the DSM software. In this part we will hook the Synology to the VMware vSphere 5.1 Lab environment. The Lab consist of a laptop with 32GB and 2 Quad core E5…
Review: Thecus N4520 – Part 1
Last year Edwin did a review of the Thecus TopTower N8850, a beautiful enterprise grade NAS with a lot of features. So when the friendly people at Thecus send us the Thecus N4520 to review it was my turn. Thecus positions the N4520 as “the…
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 1
So the holiday is over back to other fun things like reviewing a shiny new Synology Diskstation DS1513+. Our friends at Synology where so kind to ship us a brand new unit. Which is now sitting next to my desk ready to be tested. I…
Whiptail storage solutions
Last week I was able to attend a presentation from Whiptail in which they talked about their flash-based storage array. With their product portfolio they offer storage solutions that deliver high levels of speed for applications which produce high loads on storage. Whiptail positions itself…
Review: Thecus TopTower N8850
Recently we had the chance to test a Thecus NAS Server. I had not heard of the name Thecus personally, but the other VMGuru.nl guys knew it. So I was the best guinea pig to be thrown at it. I had in mind I would…