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.
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.
VMFS corruption is one of disasters which happening you might lost both service and data. vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA) would help you to fix some issues on VMFS and repair metadata.
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.
Reviews / Data Storage / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 12/02/2023 · Last modified 08/06/2023
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.
Cloud-Native Architecture / Reviews / Server Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 12/02/2023 · Last modified 05/06/2023
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.
Reviews / Cloud-Native Architecture / Server Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 12/02/2023 · Last modified 10/06/2023
SmartOS is a live OS. What does it mean? SmartOS always boot from removable media and network. There is no need to use disk capacity for itself.
Lockdown mode could be useful to achieved maximum restriction to ESXi hosts. Let’s decide to activate lockdown mode in VMware vSphere together at this post.
Data Storage / Backup & Replication / Reviews
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 04/02/2023 · Last modified 10/06/2023
DELL EMC PowerProtect Appliance has two types currently. We’ll review difference between two types at this post.
Backup & Replication / Data Center / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 20/01/2023 · Last modified 08/06/2023
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.
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?
