I recently came across a question which involved the utilization of vSphere Replication to replicate databases from Protected Site to Recovery Site with VMware Site Recovery Manager as the DR engine. This query had 2 parts to it:- One, whether vSphere Replication Supports DB replication, & Is it a good option to use vSphere Replication for DBContinue reading “Using vSphere Replication for Protecting Databases with VMware Site Recovery Manager”
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Best Practices around using RDMs in vSphere!
One of VMware’s partner engineer raised this query on an internal group. He wanted to understand and learn the best practices or the Do’s and the Don’ts while using RDM (Raw Device Mappings) Luns in a vSphere environment. I hope you being a reader understand what an RDM is and what role does it playContinue reading “Best Practices around using RDMs in vSphere!”
"Target disk UUID validation failed" Error while configuring vSphere Replication on a Pre-seeded VMDK
vSphere Replication gives you the option of performing a host based replication of Virtual Machine from one data-center to another over a network link. This feature was introduced with vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.x. This allowed customers to use vSphere Replication as the primary replication engine to replicate data from one Site to another and then useContinue reading “"Target disk UUID validation failed" Error while configuring vSphere Replication on a Pre-seeded VMDK”
VMware Site Recovery Manager – Accessing Test Network during Disaster Recovery Drills!
Like most of my blog posts, this topic was also a question which was raised by one of my customer during an SRM Plan & Design engagement. I did not find a blog or a document which speaks about this topic and hence I thought of documenting this on vXpress and help the community useContinue reading “VMware Site Recovery Manager – Accessing Test Network during Disaster Recovery Drills!”
vShield Endpoint Now Available to vSphere Customers!!
With the Introduction of vSphere 5.1, all the editions (essential plus or higher) of vSphere have the vShield Endpoint component bundled along with them. This basically means that you would no longer have to shell out dollars to use the functionality of Endpoint. This enables you to offload the Anti-Virus tasks to a service virtualContinue reading “vShield Endpoint Now Available to vSphere Customers!!”
VMware vCloud Suite makes Software Defined Data-centers a Reality!!
In one of my previous posts I wrote about VMware vSphere 5.1 – What’s new with this version?, however now it is time to talk about VMware’s vCloud Suite which was launched at VMworld 2012, San Francisco. As you might have heard it was the most comprehensive release of VMware or for that matter any software vendorContinue reading “VMware vCloud Suite makes Software Defined Data-centers a Reality!!”
Applications you can Virtualize on VMware vSphere Platform
Everytime I jump into any consolidation project, the first question I face is usually about whether the applications which are currently running on a Physical Server can be Virtualized or not. In-fact their have been situations when I have got a list of 800 applications from one of our Partners to know if they can beContinue reading “Applications you can Virtualize on VMware vSphere Platform”
Choosing the Platform for your Virtual Center. vCenter Server Appliance(vCSA-Linux) vs vCenter (Windows)!!
With the release of vSphere 5.0 in 2011, VMware just increased the options for its customers to chose between the traditional vCenter Server which was installed on a 64 bit Windows OS and the freshly baked, Linux Based – vCSA (vCenter Server Appliance). Though the intention behind this does not look like going away fromContinue reading “Choosing the Platform for your Virtual Center. vCenter Server Appliance(vCSA-Linux) vs vCenter (Windows)!!”
VMware vCenter Server – Physical vs. Virtual
This post is coming straight out of discussions I had with a client about, “How a vCenter Server should be deployed?”. Since vCenter manages a virtual infrastructure you can either install it on a physical x86 server or as a Virtual Machine. vCenter is an important machine and I have written about the importance of Protecting theContinue reading “VMware vCenter Server – Physical vs. Virtual”
Providing Protection & High Availability to a VMware vCenter Server..
vCenter being the heart of a virtual infrastructure can be considered as one of the most important piece of the puzzle. I have had numerous discussions with customers, colleagues and VMware partners about the importance of vCenter Availability and the options to protect the vCenter to improve the up-time and mitigate any risks around losing the control of yourContinue reading “Providing Protection & High Availability to a VMware vCenter Server..”
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