I’ve just sat and passed my VCP 5 exam and thought I’d pass on some of the things I did to prepare for this. Home Lab – Luckily I have a couple of HP DL based servers to be able to deploy a vSphere 5 (which can be downloaded with 60 day evaluation licenses) environment …
Tag Archive: vSphere 5
Sep 13
Site Recovery Manager 5
So, I wanted to talk a little about the new version of Site Recovery Manager that is coming soon. I’ve got nothing against SRM, but prior versions were a little poor in the administration and no automated fail back, thankfully these have been addressed in the new version. So, onto some highlights: Integration with multiple …
Sep 12
vSphere 5 – the features
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 …
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 …
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