Tag: Business Critical Applications
Protecting Your Data: Preventing Insider Threats with BDRSuite Endpoint Backup
In the current digital age, data security is paramount. It is imperative that businesses implement strong backup and recovery solutions in light of the increasing prevalence of insider threats. One such product that can be extremely important in protecting your important data is BDRSuite for Endpoint Backup. We will discuss insider threat prevention strategies and how to protect the integrity…
VMware VM Replication using BDRSuite – Overview
Ensuring the availability and continuity of vital virtual machines (VMs) is crucial in the fast-paced commercial world of today. VMware virtual machine replication with BDRSuite provides an affordable and dependable way to protect your important virtual machines. This comprehensive guide will take you through the main advantages, features, and best practices for using BDRSuite to create virtual machine replication. Key…
Virtualizing Microsoft Lync 2013
It seems there is a bit of an uproar about a document Microsoft recently released called Planning a Lync Server 2013 Deployment on Virtual Servers. In that document, Microsoft makes some odd recommendations when virtualizing Lync, sync has disabling NUMA on physical servers and not using hyperthreading. To address these concerns, VMware has published a really nice blog post that…
One Weird Trick to Virtualize Monster VMs–Consultants Hate This!
We’ve all seen those ads on the Internet that promise to teach us “one weird trick” that “<someone> hates” to do something easily. Make money fast? Yep. Lose belly fat? Check. Grow “other” parts of your body? Easy. I couldn’t resist stealing the headline for something that I’ve seen come up time and time again when virtualizing large applications…
Perception is Reality When Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
It’s been too long since I’ve blogged anything on a regular basis. Sorry about that. I would love to blame it on the three books I’ve written in the last year but that isn’t the only reason. Hopefully I can turn it around and start writing on a regular basis again. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while…
Virtualizing Exchange and Scaling Up
I have to admit – Exchange virtualization is one of my favorite topics. I love talking about it with customers, colleagues, or anyone who will listen. It has a very well known workload profile which makes sizing consistent, it’s virtualization friendly in that it supports vSphere features like vMotion and HA, and I like talking about the challenges and creative…
Great deal on Kindle edition of Virtualizing MS Business Critical Apps
Amazon has the Kindle edition of Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere at a great price. It’s currently only $22.99, compared to $38 for the paperback version. You can grab the Kindle edition here: http://www.amazon.com/Virtualizing-Microsoft-Applications-Technology-ebook/dp/B00E8HSWQU/ I’m a little late in announcing this so hopefully the price stays at this level for a little while. If you already have…
Release of Virtualizing MSFT Business Critical Apps book!
After months of late nights and hard work, I’m very happy to announce that the book Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, co-authored with Alex Fontana of VMware, has been released! The official release date from VMware Press was August 7th, and it will be officially in stock at Amazon on August 16th. It can be ordered from…
Changes in support for virtual machine snapshots for SQL Server
First off, I have to say that writing a book and working on a challenging project for a customer at the same time does not translate well into having a lot of time to blog. Shame on me – I need to do better. Back to business. Last year I wrote an article about using virtual machine snapshots with business…
New Book Coming Soon: Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the book I’m co-authoring, Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, is available for both pre-order on Amazon as well as in Rough Cuts format from VMware Press. Though the release dates online currently list a September release date we’re working with VMware Press to try to get it released before…