Virtualization has dramatically changed how IT practitioners manage their environments, especially shared storage. Once users have virtualized up to 30 percent of their environment, managing storage infrastructure is critical to ensuring performance and capacity of the overall environment and ultimately establishing a successful cloud foundation. SolarWinds® Inc. (NYSE: SWI – News), a leading provider of… Continue reading SolarWinds Integrates Virtualization and Storage Solutions for Extended Cloud Management
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Tidemark Selects VMware vCloud Technology for Enterprise Cloud Backbone
Tidemark, whose Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform is built for the cloud, announced today that it will partner with VMware to deliver the Tidemark Enterprise Performance Management Platform on the VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform. The new service will provide customers with the business benefits of a tightly integrated software suite running on VMware… Continue reading Tidemark Selects VMware vCloud Technology for Enterprise Cloud Backbone
HDS Accelerates Cloud Deployments With Support for VMware vSphere 5
VMware vSphere Storage Integration with Hitachi VSP and Hitachi AMS Optimizes IT Infrastructure and Accelerates Private and Public Cloud Deployments SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced integration with the new VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud infrastructure suite to help customers optimize and scale their IT… Continue reading HDS Accelerates Cloud Deployments With Support for VMware vSphere 5
How to use VMware PowerCLI to get All VM Mac Addresses?
Just a quick how-to on using VMware PowerCLI to get All Virtual Machine (VM) MAC addresses, host VM is registered to and VM name. I was trying to track down a VM and did not want to go through 100 VMs just to find out what MAC address its NICs had. I knew the IP… Continue reading How to use VMware PowerCLI to get All VM Mac Addresses?
Mapped direct-access LUN that is not accessible error
On Vmware ESX or ESXi: If you are trying to Vmotion a Virtual Machine (VM) that has a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) attached, you may get an error message saying: virtual disk ‘hd1’ is mapped direct-access LUN that is not accessible. This error usually occurs when there is LUN ID mismatch across hosts. Here is solution from VMware… Continue reading Mapped direct-access LUN that is not accessible error
Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
In a 2010 Symantec datacenter survey, IT sites without a virtual infrastructure project planned or in progress represented just 18% of the 1,780 sites surveyed. On the other hand, roughly half of the sites with a virtual operating environment were planning to expand the use of virtual machines (VMs) by running missioncritical database-driven applications. Nonetheless, Symantec’s… Continue reading Veeam v5 vs. Symantec: Best VMware Backup Solution?
Enhanced Network Architecture Reduces Data Center Complexity
M-LAG Direct Attach architecture eliminates outdated Spanning Tree designs and combines network scale with simplicity to enable highly virtualized cloud architectures Extreme Networks, Inc., today announced an enhanced network architecture aimed at boosting performance in next-generation data centers and clouds by combining its Direct Attach™ Virtual Machine (VM) switching with Multi-System Link Aggregation (M-LAG) to… Continue reading Enhanced Network Architecture Reduces Data Center Complexity
Survey Reveals Dramatic Operational Issues Slowing Growth of Server Virtualization
Xangati, the first management solution to provide virtual machine (VM)-to-anything visibility, today announced the results of another survey – this time focused on server virtualization. Of the most interesting data, one out of every two users polled agreed that application owners are responsible for slowing down their rate of server virtualization.