Theres A LOT of new features in vSphere 5, and I’ve detailed them all below: Storage I/O Control for NFS Storage DRS VMFS-5 ESXi Firewall VMFS Scalability and Performance enhancements 2TB+ pass-through RDM support vCenter inventory extensibility Storage APIs — VAAI T10 Compliancy Storage APIs — VAAI Offloads for NAS Storage APIs — VAAI Thin …
Category Archive: Virtualization
Everything to do with virtualization, ESX, HyperV, Xen etc
Sep 10
vSphere 5 storage advances
There’s a buzz about vSphere 5 (apart from the rather odd changes to the licensing! 🙂 ) especially the changes being made to VMFS with VMFS5… I thought I would detail some of the different features that are being introduced: Support for LUN’s larger than 2TB, but using GPT 1MB block size, no need to pick …
Aug 29
Veeam Backup & Replication v6
Some more details have been released on the upcoming (Q4 2011) release of Veeam Backup & Replication Version 6. Hyper-V support is the major announcement that was made quite a while ago, but there are some new goodies being implemented to. Backup proxies are being introduced which allows for a new scale out architecture to …
Aug 04
VMware License changes to change
There has been a lot of backlash against VMware for changing their licensing model with the introduction of vSphere 5, basically to license different versions of the vSphere family against the amount of virtual memory capacity, which meant customers with larger vm’s with lots of memory would take quite a hit when it came to …
Jun 13
VirtualSystems in a box
HP has released 3 new models in its VirtualSystem Portfolio, the VS1, VS2 and VS3 each capable of supporting a number of virtual machines out of the box, and all based on the HP Converged Infrastructure solutions. These are basically Converged Infrastructure, virtualisation platforms in a box (or a rack in this case!) This solution …
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