VMworld 2015 US – Achievement Unlocked
VMworld 2015 US is the one I’ve been waiting for during my lengthy I.T career and am lucky enough to be visiting San Francisco this year to enjoy the largest VMware event of the calendar year. So what will I be doing over the course of almost a week… » Read more
Pernixdata introduce new rays of light at VFD5
They’ve only gone and done it again haven’t they !! I can’t say you were surprised but Pernixdata have a reputation for enchanting and mesmerising their audience when it comes to Tech Field Day presentations and this was not a disappointment. » Read more
VeeamOn Forum 2015 – June 11 – The truth about availability
Veeam, famous for Backup and Replication, brings us the first of many forums to be held throughout Europe giving audiences a showcase of modern availability solutions for the datacenter and beyond. These 1 day events are designed to focus on solutions that Veeam can assist with and as an avid follower I will be attending the conference as a guest blogger courtesy of Veeam.
Head on over to this page to register to attend the event in London.
The event is free and if you wish to claim a free prize mention the name of my blog at the registration desk or mention you heard about the event at ‘Amit’s Technology Blog’ and you should get something pretty neat.
Hope to see some familiar faces there and if you see me feel free to come over and have a chat with me.
Atlantis USX on Hyper Steroids ?
Atlantis Computing released their next wave of innovation in the form of a neat hyperconverged solution which is going to lead to more disruption in the aggressive space already dominated by the likes of products from Simplivity, Nutanix and VMware. » Read more
To Podcast or not to podcast….
So what’s this podcast term all about and why should it matter to you ?? You’ve probably got better things to do than listen to the rantings of some technical folk right ? Think again !! » Read more
2015 Top Virtualisation Blog Voting is open now !!
Here we go for a new year of voting for the top 10 VMware and Virtualisation Blog. It’s hotting up to be another year for the regular seasoned enthusiasts to battle it out but also gives new and less experienced bloggers to be recognised by the brilliant community that frequent their websites. » Read more
Opvizor Update – Kill those snapshots !!
Opvizor is a product that is aimed at proactively addressing any critical errors in your vSphere environment and fixing them. Its unique turnkey solution is built on the premise that it proactively health checks and provides solutions to your vSphere Admin so they can concentrate on other work.
Today sees the release of a new free beta tool called ‘Snapwatcher‘.
You can finally say goodbye to those sneaky broken and invalid snapshots hiding in your VMware environment !!!!
Snapshots are almost a prerequisite in virtualisation, as they give virtual machine administrators the ability to return to previous stages if problems occur inside virtual environments. Unfortunately these same snapshots can quickly hog your disk space if you don’t regularly monitor and manage your virtual environment. Many invalid snapshots occur automatically when backup solutions trigger snapshot creation and deletion; whenever VMware struggles to delete a snapshot, an invalid snapshot is born. Broken snapshots can grow like wildfire if you’re not keeping track of them, and quickly balloon to consume most of your free disk space.
The team at Opvizor noticed hundreds of terabytes of wasted broken or invalid snapshots in their customer environments and had a real passion to attack this head on. The problem with these snapshots are that a single Snapshot’s Delta-file is able to grow to the same size of the original file. Broken snapshots are a common problem and affect 81% of all VMware vSphere environments. If left undetected, they can easily amass and cause space shortages in datastores.
Snapwatcher is designed to be simple to use. With a single click, anyone can find and fix old, broken or invalid snapshots. Through system wide monitoring of the VMware vCenter systems, Snapwatcher monitors all VMware snapshots and sends progress reports to notify you of how much space it was able to free by repairing or removing the snapshots.
You can download and try Snapwatcher here on the opvizor website by clicking “Try Snapwatcher by opvizor.”
If you’d like a video walkthrough please follow this Link
StorMagic coupling with VMware for ROBO goodness
It’s only been a matter of a few weeks since I saw StorMagic at VFD4 and they delivered a great solution aimed at ROBO. Today they’ve made another ground breaking announcement (stop the press !!) » Read more
How Solarwinds aims to offer a simple perspective – VFD4
I was recently privileged to sit in a session at Solarwinds HQ during Virtualisation Field Day 4. I was particularly impressed with the organisation for the day and more importantly, the strategy that Solarwinds aims to change to bring customers both old and new into their way of thinking. » Read more