Category: Data Center

A data center (American) or data centre (British) is a building.

Dedicated space within a building or a group of buildings used to house computer systems.

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Should You Use VMware Fault Tolerance All the Time?

VMware Fault Tolerance (VMware FT) is one of vSphere clustering features that can protect services with zero downtime but not useful for any services or any virtual machine.

This post is not about VMware Fault Tolerance capabilities and I’ll reviewing use cases. At end of this post, you’ll find why this feature is not suitable for each service or environment. Also find that when you should use it and when you should not use that.

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Veeam Backup and Replication – How to Choose Best Transport Mode for vSphere Proxy?

I’m sure that most IT administrators are familiar with Veeam’s products and specially, Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam BR). This product is one of popular backup and replication suite for physical and virtual environments. Veeam Backup and Replication offers three transport modes and we’ll review the transport modes and condition of their selection in this post.

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Virtual Machine Identification (VM-ID) in Fibre Channel: A Comprehensive Overview

Virtual Machine Identification (VMID or VM-ID) is a technology for tracking virtual machine I/O between virtual machine and SAN target. VM-ID can be used by hypervisor and FC switch to trace generated I/O by specific VM. As result, we can optimize whole SAN area for VI workload and non-VI workloads would be achieved.

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Kata Containers, Container with VM Isolation

Kata Containers offers method of container deployment with more security. Security is one biggest challenge about containers and containers has lower level of security compared to virtual machines. Because virtual machines are isolated from each other, but containers can’t provide isolation same as virtual machines.

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Optimizing Data Protection: Unleashing the Power of Database Backup Best Practices in Virtualization Platforms

Virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Linux KVM supporting large scale of virtual machines now. Even, virtualization platforms can host monster virtual machines as database server. At this post, we’ll review database backup solutions in virtualization platforms about advantages and disadvantages.

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Network Latency: Best Tools for Measuring

Enterprise businesses such as banking business using latency sensitive applications. Most of application delay issues are related to network infrastructure. Also most of application server are Linux servers. How can we measure network latency on Linux?