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 »
This post covers Media Server Deduplication Storage Pool (MSDP) which is an embedded deduplication technology that ships and is installed with base NetBackup 7.6 software, and that is provided on NetBackup appliances running version 2.6 software. There are below benefits of deduplication: Reduce the amount of data that is stored. Reduce backup bandwidth. Reduce backup windows. Reduce infrastructure.… Read More »
I decided to write this post because I have heard many times that vMotion is not possible without shared storage. vMotion (known as Enhanced vMotion) is supported and possible to be done without shared storage since vSphere 5.1. This vMotion is a combination of vMotion and Storage vMotion! I understand that within a long time, one of the… Read More »
