Cohesity has just announced Orion 5.0 and I wanted to give an overview of the release below. I plan to do a few more posts going in-depth on each topic. C3000 Dense Storage Nodes Up to 183TB raw in a 2U node Capacity optimized for data-intensive workloads Can be added into a cluster that has … Continue reading Cohesity Orion 5.0 Overview
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Avamar 7.5 is GA!!
Avamar 7.5 is now GA and I wanted to share the New Features. Below is a list of exciting new things like AWS support and Data Domain Cloud Disaster Recovery. Data Domain Cloud Disaster Recovery Avamar 7.5 includes support for Data Domain Cloud Disaster Recovery. The Data Domain Cloud Disaster Recovery (DD Cloud DR) solution … Continue reading Avamar 7.5 is GA!!
New features in RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1
DellEMC has recently released RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1 and below is an overview of the new features. Feel free to look through the release notes on all the 5.1 changes. Scale and performance improvements RecoverPoint for VMs provides enhanced scale-out ability for a cluster of Bronze+ (2 vCPU/8GB RAM) vRPAs: Protect up to 8,000 VMs … Continue reading New features in RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1
New features in RecoverPoint 5.1
DellEMC has recently released RecoverPoint 5.1 and below is an overview of the new features. Feel free to look through the release notes on all the 5.1 changes. Security improvements This version of RecoverPoint includes the following security improvements: Improvements in certificate handling Crypto hardening - User can set the minimum TLS protocol version to … Continue reading New features in RecoverPoint 5.1
Rubrik 4.0 – Alta
Rubrik 4.0 has release and I want to give an overview of the new features. Rubrik continues to develop and is meeting my expectations as a great Backup technology!! Hyper-V Support The following options are available for Hyper-V 2016 with Native API (WMI) Support Auto Protect Failover Cluster Support Agentless backups Incremental Forever Live Mount … Continue reading Rubrik 4.0 – Alta
ScaleIO Fundamentals – ScaleIO Data Sever (SDS) and ScaleIO Data Client (SDC)
The next part of ScaleIO that I want to cover is the ScaleIO Data Server (SDS) and the ScaleIO Data Client (SDC). These components provide the storage as well as access the storage in ScaleIO. You could consider the SDS as storage and SDC as a host, but they can reside on the same server. … Continue reading ScaleIO Fundamentals – ScaleIO Data Sever (SDS) and ScaleIO Data Client (SDC)
ScaleIO Fundamentals – Metadata Manager (MDM)
Over the past month, I have been working with ScaleIO and wanted to share some knowledge. The SDDC is really making waves in the industry and Software defined storage is a big part of that. I am going to start with the Fundamentals of ScaleIO and work my way up. Metadata Manager is a good … Continue reading ScaleIO Fundamentals – Metadata Manager (MDM)
ScaleIO 3.0
The software defined data center continues to evolve with Storage, compute, and networking. ScaleIO has become a leading SDS solution and is continuing to improve. Below will cover some enhancements of ScaleIO 3.0. Storage Efficiency Space Efficient layout 4k granularity disk layout – optimized for SSD Optimized for SSD and leverage NVDIMM’s Snaps now on … Continue reading ScaleIO 3.0
DellEMC World 2017 – 3 Weeks Away!!
We are only 3 weeks away from DellEMC World and things are coming together! Listed below are some of the updates that have come out since my last post on DellEMC World. Breakouts – There are over 500+ breakouts in 3 different categories of Technology, IT Leadership and Code and modern ops. The session catalog … Continue reading DellEMC World 2017 – 3 Weeks Away!!
New features and changes for the Avamar 7.4 Service Pack 1 release
Below is a list of the new features in the release of Avamar 7.4 Service Pack 1 (7.4.1-58) that can be found in the release notes. Common Access Card and Personal Identity Verification support Avamar 7.4 Service Pack 1 supports user authentication by using a Common Access Card (CAC) for United States Department of Defense … Continue reading New features and changes for the Avamar 7.4 Service Pack 1 release
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