QNAP Showcases VMware Certified Affordable iSCSI/NAS Scale-up Storage at VMWorld 2013

VMworld 2013 US QNAP, Inc, a global network attached storage (NAS) company, announced the release of QTS SMB 4.0 Turbo NAS operating system, for its business-class Turbo NAS models, featuring advanced functions for SMB users. The QNAP NAS can now easily be expanded to 400TB or more with the newly released scale-up solution. The new… Continue reading QNAP Showcases VMware Certified Affordable iSCSI/NAS Scale-up Storage at VMWorld 2013

Rackspace Offers On-Premise Dedicated VMware vCenter Server

Rackspace Hosting® (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, today announced a new offering for its Rackspace® Managed Virtualization service, Dedicated VMware vCenter Server, that will provide managed support for single-tenant VMware vCenter Servers. With Dedicated VMware vCenter Server, enterprise customers can migrate existing VMware workloads out of their on-premise data center into a Rackspace data… Continue reading Rackspace Offers On-Premise Dedicated VMware vCenter Server

Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Now Available

Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced the immediate availability of Veeam Backup & Replication™ v7. Among an array of market-leading features, the solution introduces two disruptive innovations, Built-in WAN Acceleration and Backup from Storage Snapshots, taking Modern Data Protection™ to the next… Continue reading Veeam Backup & Replication v7 Now Available

Update now: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released

This release of VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section. Resolved Issues This release resolves the following issues in the vCenter Server, vSphere Client, and vSphere Web Client subject area: vCenter Server stops responding frequently with the Win32 exception: Access Violation… Continue reading Update now: VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b Released

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

VMware Introduces vSphere with Operations Management and vSphere Data Protection Advanced

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today introduced two new offerings to help customers further leverage their investments in VMware vSphere – VMware vSphere with Operations Management and VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced. “Increasingly, customers have standardized on VMware vSphere® as the core of their data centers,” said Mike… Continue reading VMware Introduces vSphere with Operations Management and vSphere Data Protection Advanced

F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

VMworld Europe 2012 BARCELONA, Spain: F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today at VMworld® 2012 Europe announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organizations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5® BIG-IP® products can natively take advantage of the benefits of… Continue reading F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

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