Unitrends Free Extends Enterprise-Class Data Protection to Free VMware ESXi Hypervisor

Unitrends, a leader in enterprise-level cloud recovery, today announced Unitrends Free™ support for the Free VMware vSphere® Hypervisor (ESXi). This radically easy-to-use virtual appliance delivers enterprise-class backup and recovery capabilities for free ESXi environments as well as protection for both physical Windows and virtual systems – for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data. Unitrends… Continue reading Unitrends Free Extends Enterprise-Class Data Protection to Free VMware ESXi Hypervisor

General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Release ESXi510-201503001 (2099286)

This release contains general and security-only bulletins. Security-only bulletins are applicable to new security fixes only. No new bug fixes are included, but bug fixes from earlier patch and update releases are included. If the installation of all new security and bug fixes is required, you must apply all bulletins in this release. In some… Continue reading General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch Release ESXi510-201503001 (2099286)

Fix Vmware ESXi vMotion Fails at 14% and error ESX hosts were not able to connect over the vMotion Network

We recently deployed 5-6 new hosts in one of our production Vmware ESXi clusters in order to migrate VMs off older hosts and upgrade them. If you are attempting a vMotion migration between two ESX/ESXi hosts, and the vMotion task reaches 14%, then times out with this error message: The vMotion migrations failed because the… Continue reading Fix Vmware ESXi vMotion Fails at 14% and error ESX hosts were not able to connect over the vMotion Network

General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch

A new VMware ESX 5.1 Patch is available as of February 27, 2014. Issues resolved in this patch: ESXi host might lose network connectivity when the network heap memory, netGPheap, is exhausted, resulting from a known memory leak. In the vmkernel.log file you see entries similar to: “Heap: 2525: Heap netGPHeap already at its maximum… Continue reading General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch

What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

VMware vSphere® 5.5 introduces many new features and enhancements to further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. This paper will discuss features and capabilities of the vSphere platform, including vSphere ESXi Hypervisor™, VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, storage networking and vSphere Big Data Extensions. This paper is… Continue reading What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

PRIDE Enterprises Selects Proximal Data’s AutoCache to Improve VM application performance

Proximal Data, the leading provider of hypervisor I/O intelligence software solutions, today announced that PRIDE Enterprises, a nationally recognized training company, has selected Proximal Data’s AutoCache software to improve application responsiveness and performance in its virtualized environment. PRIDE was able to reduce the response time of user applications by 80 percent. AutoCache is a server-side… Continue reading PRIDE Enterprises Selects Proximal Data’s AutoCache to Improve VM application performance

CloudPhysics helps IT avoid operational hazards with new analytics service for VMware workloads

CloudPhysics, who provides intelligent IT operations management for virtualized workloads, today introduced its Knowledge Base Advisor, a proactive, early warning service for IT operators that identifies operational hazards impacting VMware workloads. By necessity the VMware vSphere operations stack contains multiple hardware and software vendors. IT teams cannot keep up with the fast-moving target of weekly… Continue reading CloudPhysics helps IT avoid operational hazards with new analytics service for VMware workloads

How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1

This how-to will go through steps on upgrading virtual Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 5.1. I wanted to test and enable some of the new features in the new Vmware vSphere 5.1, particularly those related to VDS, such as LACP and Health check so decided to perform an upgrade on vDS in my home virtualization… Continue reading How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1