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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:…
Due to a lack of management and control over VM resource provisioning, VM sprawl is characterized as a waste of resources (compute: CPU cycles and RAM use) as well as storage capacity. Because of its uncontrolled nature, VM sprawl has a negative impact on your environment's performance at best, and in limited situations,…
What is VM Sprawl? Virtual machine (VM) sprawl is the uncontrolled growth and proliferation of VMs in a virtual environment. When this happens, the network reaches the point where you can't manage the VMs effectively and they start demanding excessive host resources. Typically, VM sprawl occurs as the result of the…
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…
Starting with VMAN 8.0, and continuing with 8.1 we've streamlined how you deploy and use VMAN. Virtualization Manager 8.2 , the latest edition of these efforts, is now available on your Customer Portal. One of the biggest pain points that surfaced over the last 2 releases was that the process for adding virtualization…
Zombies spawning and spreading like a cancer, leaving crying orphans in their wake. Rogues flitting in the background, hirable for a price and always ready to stab you in your back. These all sound like elements to a cheap, zombie apocalypse film, but spawning, zombies, orphans, and rogues are actually components of VM…
A VMKernel is a critical component of any virtual environment. VMKernel is the reason why your VMs are allocated with memory, CPU, and other resources from the physical hardware. What makes the VMKernel special is that it runs directly runs on the ESX/ESXi host. However, this doesn’t mean that performance and latency…
Using Virtualization Manager to Manage and Optimize your environmentPresented: November 3, 2011 Virtual environments are complex, dynamic and built upon shared pools of resources, creating new challenges that leave traditional management methods and tools in the dust. Virtualization Manager addresses these challenges with…
There’s a lot of talk right now in the blogosphere about VMware’s recent announcement of vSphere 5 licensing, that pools of vRAM (allocated memory across VMs) will be used as a key basis for licensing in vSphere 5. This is a great opportunity to explore the flexibility of the Virtualization Manager product (previously…
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