If you are using vSphere 5.5 on your environment, please don’t read this post otherwise it will be useful for you. Currently, vSphere is most popular server virtualization software and any changes or notifications which published by VMware, has impact on may organizations IT infrastructure. What’s the newest? Answer: Say good bye to vSphere 6.0 .
Whether you want to provide Ceph Object Storage and/or Ceph Block Device services to Cloud Platforms, deploy a Ceph Filesystem or use Ceph for another purpose, all Ceph Storage Cluster deployments begin with setting up each Ceph Node, your network, and the Ceph Storage Cluster. A Ceph Storage Cluster requires at least one Ceph Monitor, Ceph Manager, and Ceph OSD (Object Storage Daemon). The Ceph Metadata Server is also required when running Ceph Filesystem clients.
Software-defined storage (SDS) enables users and organizations to uncouple or abstract storage resources from the underlying hardware platform for greater flexibility, efficiency and faster scalability by making storage resources programmable.
Veeam has released update for Veeam ONE 9.5. The new update came with new features and improvements. Veeam ONE 9.5 update 4 is available for download from January 22, 2019 on Veeam website.
Server Hardware / Server Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 17/12/2018 · Last modified 04/04/2019
“Corruption in dlmalloc” issue occurs because multiple esxcfg-dumppart threads attempt to free memory which has been used for configuring the dump partition. Thread A checks if there are entries to be freed and proceeds to free them, while within the same time frame, Thread B is also attempting to free the same entries.
Based on VMware KB2147888, this issue is resolved on ESXi 6 U3. But why issue is happening on ESXi 6 U3 or ESXi 6.5 U1 when they are installed on HPE ProLiant servers?
Backup & Replication / Reviews / Server Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 07/12/2018 · Last modified 21/08/2019
There is no need to introduce Nakivo for my reader at begin of each post. Nakivo is one of leaders in backup & replication market now. I writing reviews about Nakivo Backup & Replication since version 6.x. All new version had new amazing and useful features. Nakivo Backup & Replication v8.1 comes with two new features as well. In addition of new features, Nakivo Backup & Replication v8.1 has come with lot of improvement and fixes. Let’s review new features, improvements and fixes.
I guess, you know the instruction but let’s quick review. You can export virtual machines via some different tools such as vSphere Client, vSphere Web Client and others. All administrators do it today and familiar with OVA and OVF. It’s possible to export small virtual machines via vSphere Client, vSphere Web Client, PowerCLI. If you want to export virtual machine with 200~300 GB virtual disks (Thin or Thick), there is serious problem, just make sure that you have enough free space. But did you try to export big or monster VM as OVA or OVF?
These days, everyone knows what’s Cloud Computing and cloud based services are using for speedup deployment of organizations services. Operating System Level Virtualization or Containers helping system architectures and administrators to achieve the goals. There are many implementations for containers that today, those methods are compatible with different hardware architectures and operating system.
You may know that Unix has OS Level Virtualization from past years and this technology is very older than other virtualization such as Full Virtualization or Paravirtulization.
Full Virtualization (VMware ESXi, Hyper-V) and Paravirtualization (Xen, UML) provides different guest OS but there is no way to use different guest OS when you are using containers. Of curse, some solutions are under development.
RAW Device Mapping (RDM) is one of oldest VMware vSphere features which introduced to resolving some limitation on virtualized environments such as virtual disks size limitation and deploying services top of fail-over clustering services.
You can use a raw device mapping (RDM) to store virtual machine data directly on a SAN LUN, instead of storing it in a virtual disk file. You can add an RDM disk to an existing virtual machine, or you can add the disk when you customize the virtual machine hardware during the virtual machine creation process.
I had publish a post about VMware Tools 10.3.0 and it’s issues last week. VMware recommended that downgrading VMware Tools to previous stable versions at the time and VMware Tools 10.3.0 was removed from download link.
