Tuesday, September 10, 2013

VMWare Vsphere 5.1

VMWare 5.1 New Features
- Larger VMs ( upto 1 TB vRAM, 64 vCPUs )
- New VM Format ( Ver. 9)
- Flexible Space efficient storage for VDI
- Health ceck, configuration bkp & restore, rollback & support etc for Distributed switch
- SR-IOV ( Single Root Input , Output Virtualization support
- Vmotion without shared storage
- Vsphere Datarecovery feature is replaced by vSphere Data Protection which is based on EMC avamar technology
- More Flexible Web Client  with custom tagg option etc
- vCenter Single Sign on
- Vsphere Replication
- vRAM licensing discontinued

Monday, May 14, 2012

VMWare Vsphere 5 - New features


We may not observe much difference while deploying Vsphere 5 except increased  resource support for VMware VMs ( 32 vCPU & 1 TB RAM per VM maximum)
But there are lot of new features & enhancements . ( It may depend on the license which you choose as well ) . below listed the significant features in Vsphere 5

1.Storage DRS
2.Storage I/O Control for NFS
3.VMFS-5

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Cloud Computing



 

What is CLOUD?
set of hardware, networks, storage, services, and interfaces that combine to deliver aspects of computing as a service. Cloud services include the delivery of software, infrastructure, and storage over the Internet (either as separate components or a complete platform) based on user demand
Cloud provider manages & Maintains the underlying technology  used for cloud.
Various CLOUD Deployment Models
  • Public CLOUD - services are rendered over a network that is open for public use.less secure than private.
  • Private ClOUD - Operated solely for a single Organization, hosted internally or Externally.Customization Possible as per organization.
  • Hybrid CLOUD - combination of Public & private cloud.
Various CLOUD service models
  •  IaaS ( Infrastructure as a service )
  • PaaS ( Platform as a service )
  • SaaS (Software as a service )

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Vmware Basics

Different Virtualization products ?
VMWare ESX,ESXi,Workstation,Fusion etc.
Hyper-V 1.0,Hyper-V 2.0
Citrix Xen server
WindRiver,
Virtual server 2005 R2,VPC 2007
z/LAPRS,z/VM,PowerVM
SUN xVM
Parallels
Oracle VM
LynxSecures
FreeBSDJail