Category Archives: Virtualisation

VMware vSphere 5.5 – what’s new!

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What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5

itonus can help you plan your move to VMware vSphere 5.5, taking advantage of the latest enhancements.

Highlights are below:-

• vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements
–Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices
–Support for Reliable Memory Technology
–Enhancements for CPU C-States
• Virtual Machine Enhancements
–Virtual Machine Compatibility with VMware ESXi™ 5.5
–Expanded vGPU Support
–Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests
• VMware vCenter Server Enhancements
–VMware® vCenter™ Single Sign-On
–VMware vSphere Web Client
–VMware vCenter Server Appliance™
–vSphere App HA
–vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (vSphere DRS)
Virtual Machine–Virtual Machine Affinity Rules Enhancements
–vSphere Big Data Extensions
• vSphere Storage Enhancements
–Support for 62TB VMDK
–MSCS Updates
–vSphere 5.1 Feature Updates
–16GB E2E support
–PDL AutoRemove
–vSphere Replication Interoperability
–vSphere Replication Multi-Point-in-Time Snapshot Retention
–vSphere Flash Read Cache
• vSphere Networking Enhancements
–Link Aggregation Control Protocol Enhancements
–Traffic Filtering
–Quality of Service Tagging
–SR-IOV Enhancements
–Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture
–40GB NIC support

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf

Why Virtualisation?

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itonus offer many virtualisation options for businesses for both server and application. Virtualisation provides many cost and management benefits. There are cost savings in hardware support, power consumption, infrastructure, server room space and compute. There are management benefits in environment wide control and monitoring, not to mention on demand compute assignment. The list of benefits in using virtualisation is undeniable. The real question is when will all of your environment be virtualised and via what technologies. itonus has vast knowledge and experience in virtualising environments.

Why NetApp?

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itonus believes in our partner, NetApp. They have the #1 storage OS and their storage efficiency technologies are second to none. NetApp stand out from the crowd not only with great performance, space saving and data protection technologies but all for a very reasonable price!

Here are just a few of the outstanding features

  • Double disk failure protection with RAID-DP
  • Eliminate duplicated data blocks with De-duplication
  • Take space efficient backups in the blink of an eye with snapshots
  • Replicate your data over your existing SAN or LAN for DR
  • Grow on demand with Thin provisioning
  • A single OS from the entry level system to the very high end
  • Simple administration
  • Multiple protocol support (FC, FCoE, NFS, CIFS & more)
  • Automatic alerts and reporting with AutoSupport

Be it Windows, VMWare, Citrix or Hyper-V, NetApp appliances are the perfect storage platform for your virtualisation or office environment – please contact us for a demonstration.

 

VMware vSphere 5.1 Replication VRMS (VRS)

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itonus believes with ‘Disaster Recovery’ environments that do not require the cost of storage area network (SAN) level replication, ‘VMware Replication’ is a real option. Where the cost of SAN replication for the use of ‘VMware Site Recovery Manager’ (SRM) or simply replication for disaster recovery situations, the ideal solution is the use of VRMS (VRS). The ‘VMware Replication Management Server’ and ‘VMware Replication Server’ are deployed on both production and the disaster recovery sites. ‘vSphere Replication’ VRMS (VRS) are included within all editions of vSphere 5 allowing for extremely cost effective datastore replication and DR. This method of ‘Disaster Recovery’ allows for very quick recovery point objectives RPO’s and recovery time objectives RTO’s. Contact us for more information.