Software

So, continuing on a post I did for the PHD Virtual backup and recovery solution, which can be used to protect your VMware vSphere environment I wanted to give more detail on the replication and export features of the product. It doesn’t have to be said but backup and recovery is key in any...
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So I took a chance and rooted then upgraded my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Android 4.0.3 or Ice Cream Sandwich as its called. My tablet now has new life. This version of android is so much better than Honeycomb and runs nicely on this tablet. One thing that doesn’t work in this rom...
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Data protection is very important in this day and age so I have been evaluating many products that focus on protecting data for virtualized environments. Recently I had the chance the evaluate PHD Virtual Backup and Replication. This product stems from what used to be called esXpress back in the day. For those that...
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oneVirt Viewer 1.1.0 has been released so make sure you upgrade. Here are the new features that have been added. Combines all the features of 1.0.0 and adds new features and functionality listed below. Added vmReport which currently shows: All datastore with over 85% capacity used. All virtaul machines that are powered off. All...
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CloudStack is open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform. CloudStack current supports the most popular open source hypervisors VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform.
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My intention for this application was to make my life easier by collecting licensing information during the recent and future times of renewals. Not to mention just keeping track of what license keys are out there because you might find duplicates. I haven't really seen anything in the wild that will do this in...
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Some years back I noticed this Embotics and its software at VMworld. Back then they also had a monitoring and reporting software called V-Scout that is now no more. The product has way to much in the way of features to get into all of them here. Check out the product page here for...
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VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 gets a face lift and some new features. If you haven't use this product yet in any form your really missing out on a tool that provides great information. If you have used the previous version then get prepared for some better data visualization changes (eye candy) as well...
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When you have to kind of oversee all things VMware vSphere it helps to know what's out there on your network. Typically in a large organization if someone installs ESX, there is going to be a vCenter to manage it. And up until vSphere 5, vCenter would be installed on a Windows server. Here...
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Each section has it's own set of configs which are pretty self explanatory once you see it. Settings can be tweaked to your delight, unless what you'd like is Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which is not an option. You can configure the recurrence pattern into the minutes range by first choosing Custom and then...
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