Some months ago I wrote a post how to move vCenter properly from physical to virtual machine. It was not possible to migrate vCenter installed on Windows to vCenter Appliance (Linux). As you can find in my another post here, the vCenter Appliance supports and provides almost the same features as vCenter Server installed on… Read More »
This post covers a feature introduced in vSphere 5.5 - VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC). VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) is a feature that provides server side read cache from local solid-state devices (SSDs - PCIe flash cards or solid-state drives). By using local flash storage, vFRC creates a large, low latency read… Read More »
Symantec NetBackup is an enterprise-level backup platform that protects your physical and virtualized servers. A feature NetBackup Accelerator has been introduced with NetBackup 7.5 for file backups and with version 7.6 for virtual machines running in VMware. What is this? NetBackup Accelerator uses the VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) functionality to identify blocks which have been… Read More »