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Back in 2014, I was fortunate to be part of the launch of Cloud Connect Backup in Veeam Backup & Replication when at Zettagrid , a great moment in cloud data...
There is no doubt we are moving into a new era of infrastructure to host applications and workloads on. And as organisations start to move back to on-premise...
At VeeamON 2022 a couple weeks ago, Dustin Albertson and myself presented a session on what Object Storage functionality is going to look like in v12 of Veea...
It's been a while since i've done a vSphere specific Quick Fix post, but the great thing about tinkering and labbing is that you run into situations and corn...
There is a lot of FUD around crypto at the moment, with a large number of technologists remaining ice cold and almost combatively against the thought of the ...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a quick post about Longhorn as a storage provider for my Kubernetes labs. While that has worked pretty well, I thought I would ...
For those old enough to remember, Longhorn was the codename for Windows Vista...so when I came across Longhorn in the Kubernetes world, I was drawn in. That ...
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I bri...
The only thing hotter than Kubernetes at the moment is Crypto. While the price of BitCoin takes centre stage for the most, there is so much more behind this ...
For as long as I can remember I have been benchmarking storage. Knowing how storage would perform under certain IO profiles was a key part of the burn in pro...
I've always had an affinity with storage systems... that all started back at my first role with a three rack HPE Storage Area Network system that was cream c...
Over the past week I've posted a couple of articles that should help people new to vSphere with Tanzu . There are some common hurdles that can pop up. I've n...
For a look sneak peek at the highly anticipated Cloud Tier Copy mode... head here to veeam.com https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode...
At the recent Cloud Field Day 5 (CFD#5) I presented a deep dive on the Veeam Cloud Tier which was released as a feature extension of our Scale Out Backup Rep...
When Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 went Generally Available in late January I posted a What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I brie...
With the release of Update 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 we introduced the Cloud Tier, which is an extension of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR)...
I am doing some work on validated restore scenarios using the new Veeam Cloud Tier that backed by an Object Storage Repository pointing at an Amazon S3 Bucke...
Recently I was sent a link to a video that showed an end user comparing Veeam to a competitors offering covering backup performance, restore capabilities and...
As Red October came to a close…at a time when US Tech stocks were taking their biggest battering in a long time the news came out over the weekend that IBM h...
A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target . While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN H...
VMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7 . As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it's performing in the market. With ...
Over the past couple of months I noticed a trend in my top blog daily reporting...the Quick fix post on fixing a 503 Service Unavailable error was constantly...
Late last week VMware released vSphere 6.5 Update 1 which included updated builds of both vCenter and ESXi and as per usual I will go through some of the key...
I originally came across the issue of slow storage performance with the native vmw_ahci driver that comes bundled with ESXi 6.5 just as I was first playing w...
I've been running my NestedESXi homelab for about eight months now but in all that time I had not installed or enabled the ESXi MAC Learning dvFilter . As a ...
Last week VMware released a new patch ( ESXi 6.0 Build 5572656 ) that addresses a number of serious bugs with Snapshot operations. Usually I wouldn't blog ab...
Last February when VMware released VSAN 6.2 I stated that " Things had gotten Interesting " with regards to the 6.2 release of vSAN finally marking it's arri...
2016 is pretty much done and dusted and it's been an good year for Virtualization is Life! There was a more modest 70% increase in site visits this year comp...
One of the cool newly enabled features of vSphere 6.5 is the come back of VMFS storage space reclamation. This feature was enabled in a manual way for VMFS5 ...
Ok, i'll admit it...i've had serious lab withdrawals since having to give up the awesome Zettagrid Labs. Having a lab to tinker with goes hand in hand with b...
In computing, there is one thing you shouldn't compromise on...and that thing is storage. This carries over to Lab or NestedESXi environments as poor lab per...
Earlier this week my good friend Matt Crape sent out a Tweet lamenting the fact that he was having issues uploading media to WordPress...shortly after that t...
VMworld 2016 is just around the corner (10 days and counting) and the theme this year is be_Tomorrow …which looks to build on the Ready for Any and Brave IT ...
There is no doubt that new pricing introduced to vCAN Service Providers announced just after VSAN 6.2 was released meant that Service Providers looking at VS...
[ UPDATE ] This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001. For more information, see VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-20160...
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it see...
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it see...
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been a...
Overnight The Register posted an article claiming that Nutanix is about to buyout PernixData ...this has apparently come through reliable sources and hasn't ...
A month or so ago I had one of our VSAN Management Clusters Health Status flag that there was a failed disk in one of the hosts disk groups. VSAN worked quic...
As many of us rejoiced at the release of VSAN 6.2 that came with vSphere 6 Update 2...those of us running DELL PERC based storage controllers where quickly w...
Who said big corporations don't listen to their clients! VMware have come to the party in a huge way with the release of VSAN 6.2...and not only from a techn...
There is a saying in our industry that Microsoft always get their products right on the third attempt...and while this has been less and less the case of lat...
Last week VMware released a patch to fix another issue with Change Block Tracking (CBT) which took the ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Build to 3247720. The update bundle ...
[ UPDATE ] - This feature will not be available for Cloud Connect in the initial releases but will be supported in future updates.... Hopefully sooner rather...
PernixData had a number of announcements at Virtualization Field Day back in June including details around their v3 release of FVP as well as the announcemen...
For the last six months or so I've been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zet...
At the Virtualization Field Day back in June PernixData Announced they would be releasing a free version of their FVP software... FVP Freedom . Overnight Fre...
Our Operations Team where faced with an unfamiliar situation a few weeks back where we needed to re-ip an EMC VNX5300 that had it's warranty extended and was...
Over the past couple of weeks i've been helping our Ops Team decommission an old storage array. Part of the process is to remove the datastore mounts and pat...
At Virtualization Field Day 2015, PernixData CTO Satyam Vaghani presented to the VFD5 delegates on some of the new features being released by PernixData. Per...
Posting a very quick fix to an issue that I have seen pop up during all my installs to date of PernixData FVP Management Server (v2.x) whereby the Management...
![CloudPhysics: Enhanced Storage Analytics Cards [Part 2] – Snapshots Gone Wild 2](/images/2014/05/snap.png)
Following up from Part 1 which focused on the Datastore Contention v2 Card, I'll shift focus to what can sometimes be a Virutalization Admins worst nightmare...
![CloudPhysics: Enhanced Storage Analytics Cards [Part 1] - Datastore Contention](/images/2014/04/cp_s_1.png)
The guys at CloudPhysics have been busy behind the scenes of late working on improving an already great Analytic and Monitoring platform and recently I was a...
We have been conducting performance and stress testing of a new NFS connected storage platform over the past month or so and through that testing we have see...