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Hyper-V 8 Beta Architecture

jake — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:07:12 +0000

Want a nice graphical overview of the new Hyper-V 8 Beta component architecture, that includes live migration, failover clustering, networking and a host of other features, well, voila! If you want the really big picture it can be downloaded from microsoft here

vCenter Upgrade

jake — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:22:38 +0000

I’ve been completing quite a few vSphere 4 to vSphere 5 upgrades lately and I thought it might be time to do a little blog post on the process. So here’s the first in the series, upgrading vCenter. It’s pretty straight forward, just next next next next, almost There are several paths to complete the …

Windows 8 TLG’s

jake — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:15:07 +0000

With the release of the beta Windows Server 2008 Microsoft has also published a couple of Test Lab Guides (TLGs). The guides are there to help you implement the features they cover in a test lab environment so you can see what benefits that they bring to your organisation. Remote Desktop Services Desktop Virtualization …

HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0

jake — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:25:47 +0000

HP has released version 7 of its Matrix Operating Environment which includes further support for multi tenancy private clouds plus a lot of new and improved features. What is the Matrix? CloudSystem Matrix utilizes proven technologies such as BladeSystem, Virtual Connect, Insight Management software, shared storage such as Fibre Channel SAN, and HP Networking products. …

SSD in HP P4000 solution

jake — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:49:40 +0000

You like HP P4000 based storage, you want SSD though? You could have done it with the VSA previously, and actually, still can, but now the P4900 has turned up. It’s an SSD based P4000 solution, utilizing enterprise flash drives with very long life spans, available in 2 configurations: 2-node bundle: P4900 6.4TB SSD Storage …

vCloud White Papers

jake — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:57:21 +0000

Thought I’d share the following from vSphere, pretty useful from an architectural point of view: VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study vCloud Director disaster recovery can be achieved through various scenarios and configurations. This case study focuses on a single scenario as …

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite – 5.0

jake — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:47:22 +0000

VMware released VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0 back in January. This is only the second major release of the comprehensive virtual environment system’s management solution, which VMware first introduced back in March 2011, but with this release VMware jumped its versioning from 1.0 to 5.0 in order to bring the product’s numbering into line …

Prosperity 24.7 gains NetApp partnership

jake — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:48 +0000

The company I work for, Prosperity 24.7 have just been awarded the NetApp Silver Partner status, which is great news for the guys working on gaining this partnership, and great news for the Channel Islands as it gives our client base another choice when it comes to data storage solutions. Our Press …

vSphere VSA Deep Dive

jake — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:19:02 +0000

I’m a bit behind on this, but VMware released a deep dive technical paper on the VSA solution that has been released. It can be downloaded from here Definately worth a read if you want to know more about the architecture, configuration overview and requirements. A brief introduction: …

VAAI – what is it?

jake — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:19 +0000

I’ve talked about VAAI a few times in my blog (such as VAAI implementation on the P2000 and vSphere), but what is it? A quote from VMware: Storage APIs deliver tight integration of advanced capabilities from storage partners with the Virtual Datacenter OS from VMware. vStorage APIs for array …