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VMware Fusion & Host Only Private Network

I am using VMWare Fusion 4 on my MAC OS and I wanted to add a new VM which should only be available from my Macbook by using a Host Only Private Network. Besides this, I wanted to use it … Continue reading

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Networker 8 and VMware VADP Tips & Tricks

This week I installed and configured a new EMC Networker 8 SP1 environment. The customer used to create file level / application level backups besides using VCB for image level backups. Because of the VCB end of life, we decided … Continue reading

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Powershell and Snapview scripting

Currently we are providing automated disaster recovery environments for different customers. Part of this implementation is to provide the customer with an anual disaster recovery test. We are using a combination of VMware vSphere and EMC VNX / Clariion storage … Continue reading

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Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN

Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading

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Recoverpoint: SANTap splitting can give you a headache

When deciding to implement a Recoverpoint environment, you have to decide which splitter(s) you will use to duplicate and redirect the I/O’s to your replication target, whether this is a local copy or a remote copy. You can use a … Continue reading

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