Finally Veeam announced two new features included in new Veeam Backup and Replication V7 which will is planned to released in July 2013. vCloud Director Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs. vSphere Web Client Monitor backups and backup...

For a past day I tried to set up a host profiles to standardize ESXi deployment and I came across to problems to solve: When host profiles was applied, ESXi host lost completely it’s networking configuration (IP, management interfaces). I couldn’t restore networking from DCUI (error message: Management network interface cannot be found), the only way to restore functionality of DCUI was reset to default settings from DCUI. When...

Yesterday late evening VMware released vSphere 5.1 U1. What new: Reduced downtime upgrade for VMware Tools – After you upgrade to the VMware Tools available with version 5.1, reboots have been reduced or eliminated for subsequent VMware Tools upgrades on Windows. Larger virtual machines – Virtual machines can grow two times larger than in any previous release to support even the most advanced applications. Virtual machines can now have up...

After couple of months since public beta, VMware released vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide official version. In my opinion, vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide is one of the most, if not the most important documents for Engineers and Architects. I have to mention that the new form, introduced along with vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide was kept and I really like it. vSphere 5.1 Hardening...

vOpenData is a very cool project that grew from the question “What is the average VMDK size for deployed virtual machines?” Project collects data from virtual infrastructure and provides awesome statistics to public. From a project online dashboard one can see average RAM size per ESXi host, which is at the moment 137.33 GB, or number VMs per host – 17.8 – I expected bit higher ratio VM/Host. If you are interested...

Managing certificates is not the easiest job, especially when new versions of vSphere comes with more and more features which needs certificates. VMware try to make this as much painless as possible and released a tool which helps upload and manage certificates. The vCenter Certificate Automation Tool aims to automate the process of uploading certificates and restarting the following components within the vCenter Platform: vCenter Server...