Tag: virtualization
BDRSuite’s VMware Backup Solution – My Review
I’ve been using BDRSuite in my homelab for a while now. I wanted to write a quick review of the product based on my experience so far. When I first started with BDRSuite, I was using version 5.0. I’ve been a part of the journey through to version 5.6 and now to 7.0. I’ve seen the product improve greatly along…
Top 3 Virtualization Backup Products
Over the years, I’ve worked with a few different backup products for my VMware Environments. Each one has it’s plusses and minuses. This post is only about the backup products that I have experience using. This isn’t top 3 across the entire industry. 3. DellEMC’s Networker 2. Veeam Backup and Replication 1. Vembu BDRSuite Overall, I’d have to say that…
Change is afoot!
Some people are afraid of change. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory (above) was afraid of change. I’m not! Working in IT, things change around you all the time. If you don’t adapt, you get left behind! So, after working for Turbonomic for the past 2 years in Professional Services, I’ve decided it was time for a change. I…
PowerCLI Script to list VMs not specifically set to Thick Eager Zeroed
First, I’ll start with a little back story. We recently deployed an EMC XTremIO All-Flash storage appliance. The recommendation we got from EMC, for the best deduplication ratios, was to use the Thick-Eager Zeroed disk format. No matter how many times I tell my coworkers to make sure to use this format when deploying VMs to the xTremIO LUNs, once…
PowerCLI Script to migrate VMs from one vCenter to another
Hey everyone, this is another guest post from Ben Liebowitz, Matt’s brother. Before I get into the script, I’ll give you some background… We are working on migrating VMs off of our vSphere 4.1 environment to our new vSphere 5.5 environment. The 4.1 environment is using the Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch while the 5.5 environment is using a vDS switch.…
vMotion of clustered VMs is supported in vSphere 4.1..or is it?
While looking over some of the new vSphere 4.1 documentation I noticed that VMware had updated their Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service document. As clustering becomes a bigger component of Microsoft’s enterprise applications, support for clustering in vSphere becomes even more important. As in previous versions of this document they list the limitations for clustering on vSphere. …