Tag Archives: vcenter

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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HA Admission Control: Base VM reservation on percentage

When configuring HA Admission Control based on a percentage, do you ever look at the current failover capacity from the vCenter inventory? When you do, it is possible you also noticed that the current failover capacity does not reflect the … 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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Avamar Global Source Based De-duplication: How it works

I have been working with Avamar for 2 years now at different customer sites and the effects on today’s challenges regarding Backup & Recovery are great, thanks to the Global Source Based Data De-duplication Avamar gives you. At the dutch EMCForum in … Continue reading

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