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VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 Update
The long waited VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 will be released soon, so I thought to share some update about the exciting set of features of what’s coming. If you have been following up the evolution of VMware vCloud Availability, you will find many of your wishes and requests are materializing in vCAv 3.0. VMware vCloud…
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vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 is here!
The vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 has been made available today! vCAv C2C 1.5 has come with a number of great enhancements highlighted below: An improved user interface that can be embedded into vCloud Director and allows tenant and service provider users to perform DR operations and monitor DR environments from within vCloud Director. Service…
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vCloud Availability Cloud to Cloud DR capabilities is here!
Today, VMware has announced the long waited vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.0. This is a thrilling news to many of our VCPP service providers partners who wanted a VMware native Cloud to Cloud DR/migration solution for vCloud Director based clouds. Below is few highlights of the newly introduced vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR. Simple Deployment: …
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Discovering Vembu BDR Suite v3.6.0
Vembu has recently released v3.6.0 of their Vembu BDR Suite. I was provided an online demo of the product, as well a free trial to try it out in my home lab. Below I summarize my experience with the product and the features I like as well things I thought missing. Installation Process: Let’s start…
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vCloud Air DR to Cloud with vRealize Automation
Traditionally organizations have reserved their Disaster Recovery capabilities to their most critical workload leaving some important workloads without proper disaster recovery due to the high cost of disaster recovery. Imagine if you went shopping to buy a car with a friend. When you hit the dealership, your friend tell you that you should buy two…
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No Excuse for not having backup!
If you are working in the SMB market, you might be facing with the usual challenge of having a very limited to no budget for backup. Please don’t take that as an excuse to skip backup all together, as your management will not tolerate not having backup when things go south. It’s important to recognize…
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Myth busted: vCenter Site Recovery Manager using vSphere Replication for Datacenter migration causes data loss
It seems there is a lot of confusion out there on how vCenter Site Recovery manager work with vSphere Replication when used for a data center migration, thanks in big part to competing products FUDs. Many admins still believe that using vSphere Replication with vCenter Site Recovery Manager for data center migration you will still…
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Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 Sneak Peek
I have participated in the Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0 (formerly PHD Virtual Backup) beta program, and Unitrends has been kind enough to allow me to share my finding with you on my blog. Please note while the screenshots below still show PHDVirtual logo, I believe these will be replaced with the Unitrends logo in the…
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Chance to Win Google Glass from Veeam
As usual Veeam not only offering great products, but they have a great marketing team that always spoil us with new type of give away. This time they are offering Google Glass for the winner of their three sessions below attendees, and there will be 15 Pizza coupons per session. That means you will have…
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vSphere Data Protection Advanced Licensing your hosts
I have seen a consistent growth lately in the number of my customers that shift to using vSphere Data Protection (VDP). I guess with VDP standard edition being a freebie nonetheless all the powerful features it come up with has made it an easy choice for many customers in the SMB market. VDP standard comes…
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vSphere Data Protection error – operation failed due to existing snapshot
After I have helped one of my customers deploy VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced to replace their old VMware Data Recovery, and helped them schedule their environment for backup, we came back the next day to find out that few VMs have failed with the following error: “VDP: operation failed due to existing snapshot”. As…
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Qtree SnapMirror warnings and limitations with SRM
While setting up SRM with NetApp 6290 at a customer site, my customer was using Qtrees and Qtree SnapMirror which caused us few issues. If you are setting up SRM and using NetApp Qtree SnapMirror, there is quite few warnings, limitations, and best practices that you will need to be aware of. I have listed…
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SRM Error: XmlValidateException Element SourceDevice is not vaild for content model: Source Device.
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP 6290 filer, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair and after I fixed the timeout error I have documented in the following post: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command, I have faced…
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SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP storage, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair I was welcomed with the following error: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete ‘discoverDevice’ Command. This SRM SRA Adapter error is not limited…
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start
While installing VMware SRM 5.0.3 at a customer site, both nodes installations have given me the following error right before the installation completion: Failed to start service. Details: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start. Check that all required Windows services are running. View the server log for more information. Press Retry to…