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This is a guest blog post from Altaro Software (http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/). Altaro Software are the developers of a Microsoft Hyper-V backup solution called Altaro Hyper-V Backup. Altaro Hyper-V Backup includes a freeware edition – a 5 minute YouTube demo can be seen here:…
VMware’s big hype for VMworld 2013 in San Francisco was all about bringing software-defined data center capabilities to market. Since the compute aspect of the data center has pretty advanced virtualization capabilities (i.e., “software-defined”) that meant the primary focus was on advancing the network and storage…
Josef Cilia of APS Bank in Malta kindly shared his experience using SolarWinds Storage Manager (STM) with us. We got some great insight into how STM is helping Josef keep his systems up and running and be more proactive in managing his systems with visibility all the way from servers and fabric to his arrays. Josef’s…
In the VMworld 2013 keynote session in San Francisco Monday morning VMware made a number of announcements mostly related to software-defined data center (SDDC) capabilities. While they focused a lot on networking, storage and hybrid cloud, the capability that will probably have the most impact in the short term will be the…
How much storage do you have? What storage are you using? When will you need more? These seem to be simple questions, and that's often how they're approached. But if you're a systems administrator "on the hook" for storage, you know they're actually devilishly complex to answer. Storage utilization metrics have been a…
If you haven't noticed, Storage Resource Monitor 6.1 is now GA! What does this mean? More array support! This release adds additional device support to the Orion Module, allowing customers to monitor more devices on the Orion Core Platform and take advantage of the AppStack Environment View. * EMC Symmetrix…
When storage costs keep getting higher for an organization, there isn’t much a storage admin could do to manage data storage across various storage devices and media. There has to be some prioritization of data stored and it should be decided where to storage what data. If it’s critical data requiring frequent access, then…
Storage systems, like any other network or server hardware, are likely to brew up bottlenecks and performance issues and it’s the storage administrator’s job to keep this in check and triage issues. It’s a misconception that all storage bottlenecks arise due to storage disks. There are other key components of the storage…
When it comes to storage management there is a high probability of developing performance issues over time. There can be bottlenecks and hotspots in many places on your storage environment including the storage arrays, the controllers and the disk drives. If the server environment is virtualized, it will lead to more…
In my previous blogs, I provided an overview of thin provisioning and discussed moving from fat to thin with thin provisioning. Now, I’d like to talk about over allocation or over committing of storage space. When you over commit storage it helps enhance application uptime. Further, it makes storage capacity management…
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