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VMWorld 2018: Monday
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
Posted in CLI, Cloud, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Security, Storage, Virtualization, VMware Tagged AWC, HCX, NSX, VMC Leave a comment
VCAP5-DCA update for vSphere 5.5
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
Posted in Certification, Computing, Disaster Recovery, Network, PowerShell, Scripting, Security, Storage, Virtualization, VMware 25 Comments
vSphere 5 Rumors and books
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
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
Another reason to carefully choose your cloud provider
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?
Mozy online backup review
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
“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
