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VMware ESX 4 Reclaiming Thin Provisioned disk Unused Space
Disk Thin Provisioning & its ease of use in VMware vSphere has been one of the most used features. Although Thin provisioning has allowed customers to avoid allocating space upfront & saved them tons of space, it does not unallocate space when files are deleted from the Virtual Machine, this is due to the way…
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Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1 with full support for replication to ESXi hosts!
Today I have received an e-mail from Veeam, announcing that Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1 is fully supporting VMware ESXi including the replication to VMware ESXi host as a target. Below is the body of Veeam announcement e-mail: ======= Veeam Announcement ========= Veeam proudly announces the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1 with…
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IF I was VMware CEO, ……
Don’t get me wrong. I am happy with the current VMware CEO as well the VMware team as over all. My post is more of a message to the VMware Team & specially the CEO. I believe this below tip can help VMware crush the competition, though they have to study it carefully as it…
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VMware vSphere Virtual Machine still show old datastore after storage vMotion
Before I start with the article, I have to point out this is not a VMware bug. Its the VMware admins doing what they are not suppose to do. VMware ESX 3 & VMware ESX 4 Administration Guides mention clearly that you should not VMotion or Storage vMotion a Virtual machine before disconnecting it from…