This post covers Fault Tolerance (FT) improvements available in vSphere 6. I am so happy that at last Fault Tolerance (vSMP supported) can be used to protect the business critical systems. Just for a quick reminder what are limitations of Fault Tolerance available in vSphere 4.0-5.5: Only 1 vCPU per FT virtual machine. Shared storage required. Host CPU’s… Read More »
In the previous post I showed NetBackup Auto Image Replication architecture overview. In this post I will describe how to configure it with using MSDP (or OST compatbile Storage Server). NetBackup provides the ability to establish a trust relationship between replication domains. A trust relationship is optional. The following points describe how a trust relationship affects Auto Image… Read More »
Recently, I have received some questions and requests about configuring VSAN at home without having SSD disks. Of course, you can play with VSAN without SSD disk. You can use either ESXi or VMware Workstation where you have to install at least three nested ESXi with SSD emulation. Please notice that it is recommended to have a physical… Read More »
