Introduction to vCloud Hybrid Services (vCHS) – Disaster Recovery (DR)
Advertise here with BSAI just recently received my credentials to VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Services. One of the first things I was interested in testing out was the Disaster Recovery Service, which uses...
View ArticleDisaster/Recovery (DR) of vCenter Operations Manager
Advertise here with BSAI just spent a very useful week looking at how our customers might be able to protect vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) with VMware’s vSphere Replication (vR) and Site Recovery...
View ArticleDR of vCenter Operations – Method 2 (IP Customization)
Advertise here with BSAEarlier this week I spoke about our efforts to failover vCenter Operations Manager (vCops) between two sites. In that article I stated that we used vApp containers at DR site,...
View ArticleSome useful NSX Troubleshooting Tips
Advertise here with BSAI’ve been working on some Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios recently with my good pal Paudie. Last month we looked at how we might be able to protect vCenter Operation Manager,...
View ArticleA closer look at X-IO
Advertise here with BSAMy first introduction to X-IO was via Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Days. They piqued my interest and I added them to the list of storage vendors that I wanted to check out at...
View ArticleVSAN Troubleshooting Case Study
Advertise here with BSAI have been doing a bunch of stuff around disaster recovery (DR) recently, and my storage of choice at both the production site and the recovery site has been VSAN, VMware...
View ArticleDR of VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Advertise here with BSAOver the past month or so, I’ve been looking at disaster recovery of some of the vCloud Suite components. My experiences of using vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager...
View ArticleA closer look at Maxta
Advertise here with BSAMaxta are another storage vendor that I managed to get talking to at this years’ VMworld conference in San Francisco. Although they were present at last year’s VMworld, they...
View ArticlevSphere 6.0 Storage Features Part 2: Storage DRS and SIOC
We made a number of enhancements to Storage DRS in vSphere 6.0. This article will discuss the changes and enhancements that we have made. There is a white paper which discusses many of the previous...
View ArticleVirtual Volumes (VVols) and Replication/DR
There have been a number of queries around Virtual Volumes (VVols) and replication, especially since the release of KB article 2112039 which details all the interoperability aspects of VVols. In Q1 of...
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