November 30, 2010 4:57 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
cloud,
ESX,
ESXi,
private,
public,
VMWare,
vSphereHi folks! So with all the mention of the cloud nowadays, it's common to hear the terms private and public tossed around in relation to the cloud. What does this mean to the customer?
Well based on the apps and data you have, some of them might work in the public cloud or some might work in the...
November 30, 2010 4:50 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
chargeback,
cloud,
ESX,
ESXi,
pay per use,
vCloud Director,
VMWare,
vSphereHi folks! Now with virtualization you find a lot of people putting their apps in the cloud. Now the question becomes, if you have multiple departments or companies using the same infrastructure, how do you charge that back?
In some companies this isn't a requirement, but in a lot of companies it...
August 31, 2010 9:35 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Citrix,
Hyper-V,
virtualization training,
VMWareHi everyone! This is a quick shout out to all of you fellow techies out there. I'm finding that up here in Canada we have a severe lack of officially trained certified individuals in virtualization. Whether it's Hyper-V, VMware, or Citrix.
Sure there are a few people out there, and some are...
May 31, 2010 2:39 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
Android,
Apple,
cells,
Google,
iPhone,
smartphonesHi folks! Welcome to my blog again! I hope spring has been treating everyone well! One of the things I wanted to touch on today is the Android platform!
I have been slowly seeing more and more people use this new platform and they are getting quite excited about it! It looks like we finally have...
April 30, 2010 10:53 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
backup free vmware,
VCP,
VMWareHi folks! Were you one of the few that managed to finish your VCP before the deadlines I mentioned earlier?
Well if you were and you logged into VMware's web site you probably didn't see your certification listed there. That's because VMware never listed the VCP certifications on the...
March 31, 2010 10:39 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
jumbo frames,
network speed,
slow backups,
VirtualizationHi folks, I want to talk about slow backups and virtualization. Sometimes we encounter problems where people have tried to setup backups but they are having problems with the speed of the backups to their network attached storage.
So what is a person to do? Well check to see if you have enabled...
March 31, 2010 10:04 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
ESX,
ESXi,
SureBackup,
Veeam,
VMWareHi folks, as you know I'm a big fan of virtualization, and for backups I love Veeam which is great at backing up my virtual machines.
Well recently announced from Veeam is Veeam SureBackup which contains a lot of the same features from Veeam that you have grown to know and love, but also...
February 28, 2010 9:49 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
HCL,
iSCSI,
repurposing old storage,
secondary storage,
unsupported hardware,
VMWareHi folks! Now here is a problem that is plaguing few people with the introduction of vSphere 4. A few people who bought SAN iSCSI storage in the past with their old VMware 3.5 environments find that their hardware is no longer supported in vSphere 4 on the HCL. The hardware might still work, but it...
February 28, 2010 9:41 PM
Posted by: Raj Perumal
HP,
HP StorageWorks P4000 virtual appliance,
LeftHand,
VMWare,
VSAHi folks, in the last few posts I've been focusing on virtualization and storage. This brings to mind another great option and that is the LeftHand VSA option from HP.
Recently HP acquired the company LeftHand which specializes in storage. One of their products is a software offering called the...
