vSphere 6.5 GA and EMC Dell VMAX

VMware vSphere 6.5 is now GA and available for download here. vSphere 6.5 offers lots of new features and capabilities that you can take advantage of in a VMAX environment and is fully supported running on all models in these array types: VMAX1 or VMAX2 (Symmetrix) VMAX3 VMAX All Flash If you have any concern -...

VMware Log Insight 4.0

VMware just released Log Insight (LI) version 4.0. Generally for LI releases my posts are light because it never makes sense to me to elaborate extensively when Steve Flanders (@sflanders) owns this space. You can find his site at sflanders.net where he will go into all the details (over time with many posts) about 4.0 as he...

SRDF/Metro WP Update

Just a quick post to let you know I completed the update of my SRDF/Metro whitepaper to reflect both changes in the 5977 2016 Q3 SR and the SRDF SRA 6.2 release. In short, here are the general changes: Included new functionality for virtual witness (vWitness). Though the environment I present in the paper uses a physical witness,...