Category Archives: Disaster Recovery

VMWorld 2018: Monday

Posted on August 27, 2018 by josh@sostechblog.com

Today kicked off with the main keynote featuring Pat Gelsinger.  There were several new announcements including: Amazon RDS database service will now run on your local VMware servers VMware ESXi now fully supports ARM processors VSAN now supports S3 storage … Continue reading →

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VCAP5-DCA update for vSphere 5.5

Posted on April 7, 2014 by josh@sostechblog.com

Released today, the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – DataCenter Administration exam (VDCA550) has been updated for vSphere 5.5 and per the new blueprint has a slew of changes since it was released covering vSphere 5.0 two years ago. Among … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5 Rumors and books

Posted on May 20, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Update:vSphere 5 is released VMware and Pearson have launched a new to publish “official” VMware books Most notably: Storage Design and Implementation in VMware vSphere 5.x by Mostafa Khalil • Technology Deep Dive • Fall 2011 Automating Day-to-Day Administration of … Continue reading →

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Another Drobo tale of woe

Posted on April 6, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

oops I also had a Drobo failure that I mentioned before. Interesting take although “there’s a big risk in getting locked into a proprietary system like this” would apply to any RAID enclosure. Since blocks are written across all the … Continue reading →

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Another reason to carefully choose your cloud provider

Posted on April 4, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

PC World has an article about a service provider losing data due to a disgruntled former employee. Does your provider actually back up your data? Or do they just tell you they back up your data?

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Mozy online backup review

Posted on December 29, 2010 by josh@sostechblog.com

Updated post Back up your data.  Preferably make a few backups and keep them separate from your working data.  Nothing worse (true story:) about keeping your backups in the same room as your server when you’re located on a flood … Continue reading →

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Archiving Disasters

Posted on November 16, 2010 by josh@sostechblog.com

“But we have a short-term recovery plan in place surely we can get rid of tape backups now?” This is a statement I hear time and time again and the answer (as always) is “it depends.” The key issue is … Continue reading →

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