vSphere Replication 5.5 enhancements: After failover you can choose to revert to a previous ‘known good point’. For example, if you’ve done a failover either manually or via SRM and find out that the copy you’ve failed over to has something wrong, it’s as simple as browsing through the snapshot manager of a VM to choose aContinue reading “What’s New With vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager 5.5”
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Backup and restore: Deploying the VMware VDP Appliance
Connecting to your VDP: As discussed earlier, once you set up your appliance you will notice a new VDP item on the left of your vSphere Web Client interface. From there we need to do all administration tasks including backups and restores. You need to connect to your VDP of choice because you may haveContinue reading “Backup and restore: Deploying the VMware VDP Appliance”
Adding AD authentication to VMware SSO 5.1
With the release of VMware vCenter Server 5.1 an important new component has been released: the VMware Single Sign-On (SSO) server. It is one of the components of vCenter Server and is a requirement for installation. Through the SSO server a user now gets authenticated and receives a token that authenticates the user with otherContinue reading “Adding AD authentication to VMware SSO 5.1”