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Another year has come and gone, along with another vForum. For ANZ region this is the closest we can get to VMworld without actually going to VMworld. This year vForum was held in Sydney Convention Centre. I arrived Sydney from Auckland the day before vForum, so I had the opportunity to attend vForum Partner and […]
Is your time limited, or may be unable to travel to an IT conference? Don’t worry! In the vForum Online you can access an agenda loaded with great sessions with diverse technical topics, live chats with experts and practical laboratories Be a part of the Largest Virtual IT Conference VMware vForum Online 2019! When? October […]
Experiencing metadata corruptions in VMFS volumes is a troubleshooting scenario that consumes a lot of time specially if you can’t access some VMs files anymore and your applications are experiencing outage. Hopefully you have your backups up to date and tested to restore your machines but in some cases you may need to recover those […]
ESXi 6.7 update 2 released in May 2019 adds VMFS6 to the list of supported file systems by the vSphere On-disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA) to allow you to check and fix issues with VMFS volumes metadata, LVM metadata, and partition table inconsistencies. This means you can save a lot of resources, time and money while […]
Symptoms We experimented the following problem when trying to configure vCloud Director settings from Zerto Virtual Manager or Enabling vCD BC/DR during the installation of Zerto 7 U2: Zerto virtual manager Install logs (location: C:\ProgramData\Zerto\InstallLog) Zerto.Zvm.Platform.VCD.Proxy.VCDProxy,Connect,Failed to login to ‘https://vcloudirectoraddress/api’ with username ‘Administrator@system’. Please verify the server address and credentials are correct Please verify the […]
SRM Appliance is finally available! For those who were waiting for the moment…VMware announced the release of VMware Site Recovery Manager Photon OS-based virtual appliance! The Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance is a preconfigured virtual machine that is optimized for running Site Recovery Manager and its associated services. You deploy the appliance on an ESXi […]
In the space of modern enterprise technology, cloud computing has become a key player. Companies work to achieve their cloud computing goals with providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform. These huge technology companies are constantly updating their products, sometimes faster than their customers can handle. Baking Clouds […]
Early this month Zerto finally announced LABS on-demand ! Yay! The labs provide the perfect learning opportunity by marrying an embedded lab environment with detailed training guides to walk you through all the top features & operations. All labs use VMware vSphere, but Zerto is exploring adding lab offerings for the other platforms the software […]
Zerto Virtual Replication uses an SQL Server to manage data for scalable business continuity software solutions. The default during installation is the embedded SQL Server database. When using the embedded SQL Server database, Zerto Virtual Replication is limited with the number of resources that can be protected. It’s is highly recommended to move to external […]
VMware AppDefense is a data center endpoint security product that protects applications running in virtualized environments. AppDefense understands an application’s intended state and behavior, then monitors for changes to that intended state that indicate a threat. When a threat is detected, AppDefense automatically responds VMware AppDefense Components The primary components of the VMware AppDefense platform […]