Virtualization

Top 26 Tools for VMware Administrators

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Virtualization is one of the popular technologies that are implemented in many IT environments. to work on virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen or Microsoft Hyper-v, there are lots of application and tools that could make you possible to manager yoru virtualized infrastructure. in this article, we are providing many tools for administrators that is challenging to keep track of them all. most of them will be very useful for engineers to manage effectively their infrastructure. you could read the article.

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1. As Built Report

As Built Report is an open source configuration document framework which generates and builds documents in XML, Text, HTML, and MS Word formats using Windows PowerShell and PScribo.

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What’s New in vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

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What’s New in vSphere 6.0 Fault Tolerance

  • FT support upto 4 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM
  • Fast Check-Pointing, a new Scalable technology is introduced to keep primary and secondary in Sync by replacing “Record-Replay”
  • vSphere 6.0, Supports vMotion of both Primary and Secondary Virtual Machine
  • With vSphere 6.0, You will be able to backup your virtual machines. FT supports for vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) and it also supports all leading VADP solutions in Market like symantec, EMC, HP ,etc.
  • With vSphere 6.0, FT Supports all Virtual Disk Type like EZT, Thick or Thin Provisioned disks. It supports only Eager Zeroed Thick with vSphere 5.5 and earlier versions
  • Snapshot of FT configured Virtual Machines are supported with vSphere 6.0
  • New version of FT keeps the Separate copies of VM files like .VMX, .VMDk files to protect primary VM from both Host and Storage failures. You are allowed to keep both Primary and Secondary VM files on different datastore

annual voting vBLOG !

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The annual voting for the top 50 virtualization blogs for 2014 is now open. Every year Eric Siebert takes a lot of time and puts this together over at vSphere-land.

I have contributed to the voting over the years and now this year for the first time my blog is part of this great list. I encourage each of you to head over here to cast your votes again this year or for your first time. Voting is only open until 03/17/2014 so hurry up. There are some great blogs on this list and I am honoured to be part of them this year. So if you have found any of my contributions to be worthy please take a moment and cast your vote. I spend a lot of time contributing here and hopefully you all find it useful. Happy voting and thanks for visiting my blog. (BTW! I am considered an independent blogger and new for 2013!)
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1553027/Top-VMware-virtualization-blogs-2014

Enjoy!

Hyper-V 2012R2 vs. vSphere 5.5

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Now that both Microsoft and VMware have officially announced the new released of their virtualization products it’s possible make an homogenous comparison between Hyper-V 2012 R2 (the fourth generation of Hyper-V) and vSphere 5.5.

VMware vSphere 5.5 introduces several news and scalability improvements, on the other side Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 consolidate its features and improve what was already existing in the 2012 version, with a limited (but significant) new features. For example now, finally, some VMware old date features are mainstream also in Hyper-V, like VM hot cloning, hot disk resize (in this case also with the possibility to reduce the size).

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vSphere 5.5 new feutures

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Last night , I was looking for an article that i saw an article on virtualization .  I read this article . it will be useful for you and other friends

I ‘m going to run in this version soon. And the complete results will be announced . for the full list please take a look at VMware’s document.

1. vCenter Server appliance gets bigger

For a while now VMware has offered a Linux based appliance version of the Windows based, full blown vCenter Server, but in the past the appliance’s database pretty much limited its use to the SMB space. With 5.5 the vCenter Server Appliance can now handle up to 500 hosts and 5000 Virtual Machines. For my environment I’ll still hold out until it has the capability to at least host the application portion of Update Manager (as opposed to the patch repository), but I can definitely see its use in environments with multiple vCenter servers.   Continue reading “vSphere 5.5 new feutures” →

10 Things to Know About Server Virtualization

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This is a guest post from David Malmborg who is working with Dell. Here are the 10 things to know about server virtualization and why your company should think about it. Recently I have shared my personal working experience on advantages of server virtualization.  The below points are similar to earlier article but with different view and explanation.  [source article]

1. Server Virtualization Closes the Gap Seen in Traditional Server Model

Traditional server model uses one piece of hardware for each server. So it will require 75 physical servers to create 75 database, application, and web servers. With server virtualization, it will only require one server and a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device to create 75 or more servers. The power of virtualization technology is enormous and theoretically it can create an endless number of virtual servers. Virtual server technology continues to improve in both functionality and scalability.   Continue reading “10 Things to Know About Server Virtualization” →

7 Advantages of Cloud Computing

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“Cloud computing has changed the rules of the game between the companies expanding their services using cloud computing.”

 In recent years cloud computing services has growing continuously. Google has been one of the strongest company have providing a large range of cloud services, spearheaded Gmail, and a long list of solutions around covering virtually all areas (Maps, Reader, News, storage etc.).

Microsoft , the other large consumer market, has also invested heavily in the full range of services and providing cloud computing services. Using Windows Azure, you can rapidly configure, organize and can manage applications very easily, you can run your sites, virtual machines, mobile services and other cloud services using Windows Azure.    Continue reading “7 Advantages of Cloud Computing” →

Optimizing vSphere 5 Performance

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A few days ago I read an article that was interesting.May be faced with reduced performance When you run the virtualization platform.

Here I give you some tips in this regard:

Optimizing vSphere Performance: Why and How

1. Use capacity analysis tools
2. Right-size virtual machines
3. Replace your hardware
4. Utilize Storage I/O Control (SIOC) and Storage DRS (SDRS)
5. Reduce VM snapshots
6. Consider SSD
7. Utilize Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
8. Run the latest version of vSphere
9. Use the latest VM virtual hardware version
10. Install VMware Tools in all virtual machines

  

vSphere 5.1 What’s New

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VMware announced a new version of VMware vSphere 5.1 at VMworld USA. I created a nice summup of all new features to give you nive clean overview

if you are going to upgrade vsphere 5.1 please read this links and notic changes them

 

vSphere 5.1 What’s New

Compare Hyperv 3.0 & Vsphere 5.0

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1) Scalablity

To start the comparison, we would choose scalability and  config maximums as these are the important aspects to look for while choosing the platform for your cloud.

Microsoft Windows 2012 RC’s Hyper-V 3.0 seems to be promising on scalability than VMware vSphere 5.0. The maximum supported clustered nodes increased to 64 with increase in support of running VM’s i.e 4000 VM’s, more logical processors per host and more Physical RAM per host as compared to VMware. Continue reading “Compare Hyperv 3.0 & Vsphere 5.0” →

10 most powerful cloud companies

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Virtually every vendor has a cloud story to tell. But here are 10 companies that have distinguished themselves as the leaders in cloud computing, either by being first to market, by offering the broadest and deepest set of cloud services or by taking a leadership role in the cloud revolution. Other articles in this issue of Enterprise Cloud Services:

1. Amazon: The IaaS gold standard

The online retailer came out of nowhere in 2006 to offer up idle compute cycles as a service. Since then, it seems like there’s no market Amazon is unwilling to enter and no competitor it’s unwilling to take on. There’s the market setting Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). If you’re a third-party provider of cloud services, that’s the platform you need to be compatible with. Over time, Amazon has added multiple cloud storage offerings and is moving into the PaaS market. The company is also selling tablets (Kindle Fire) and challenging Apple and Google in the cloud-based music arena. Continue reading “10 most powerful cloud companies” →

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2013

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What will drive the technology trends for 2013? Analyst firm, Gartner shares their prediction:

Mobile Device Battles
By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide and that by 2015 over 80 percent of the handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones. However, only 20 percent of those handsets are likely to be Windows phones. By 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments and Windows 8 will likely be in third place behind Google’s Android and Apple iOS operating systems.

Windows 8 is Microsoft’s big bet and Windows 8 platform styles should be evaluated to get a better idea of how they might perform in real-world environments as well as how users will respond. Consumerization will mean enterprises won’t be able to force users to give up their iPads or prevent the use of Windows 8 to the extent consumers adopt consumer targeted Windows 8 devices.  Continue reading “Top 10 Technology Trends for 2013” →

10 Amazing Uses of Cloud Computing!

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Cloud computing is one of the most promising technologies in the modern day world. Several companies have already popped in the cloud market and achieved desired goals they planned for their business’s expansion. To add more to cloud’s importance in the growing IT industry let us check on some of its uses and benefits that it offers to its users. Continue reading “10 Amazing Uses of Cloud Computing!” →