Virtual SAN 6

Configure & Enhancements:

• Minimum Requirement:
  -Three ESXi 6.0 or above hosts or above.
  -Network card
  -License
  -SSD & HDD or SSD & SSD
• Enhancements:
  - Increased the number of ESXi hosts which can take part in       virtual san cluster from 32 to 64.
  - Introduced All flash configuration.

EMC vVNX (Software Defined Storage)

DEPLOYMENT & CONFIGURATION

• Virtual VNX (vVNX) is a software stack that provides many VNX features. It allows VNXe software to be available as a downloadable virtual storage appliance (VSA) for use with a VMware ESX or ESXi hypervisor. 
• Most of the folks who wants to test the new feature of VMware for the Software Defined Storage i.e VVOL like most of us have came across so far can test with the help of this solution by EMC ie.  VVols technical preview for vVNX from their website.
• It is available as an OVA (Appliance )which requires
     -M inimum RAM or what i can say from my observation is exactly 12288MB (12GB)
     -Disk format for this appliance by EMC is Thick Provision Eager Zero.
     - 2 CPU
• For the first login USERNAME & PASSWORD for login into terminal for verifying the settings is service\service but in order to access the Unisphere USERNAME:admin, Password: Password123#.

• In my next post i will share how you can create a storage pool, LUN, NFS & vVOL.

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-42029?attachmentName=vVNX_Install_Guide.pdf&attachmentURL=/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/42029-102-11-144283/vVNX_Install_Guide.pdf
https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-44385

vSphere Data Protection Part 2

In vSphere Data Protection we have shown the minimum requirements , how to deploy vDP and configure.

Now in this post i am going to share how you can restore the virtual machine and perform the file level recovery.


1. Once vSphere Data Protection is configured , you will find its plugin in here.

2. Click on this vDP

3. After that a job is required in which we get an option to select the particular virtual machine, datacenter or partiicular hard disks of a virtual machine. 

4. We have to specify the job schedule time and retention policy. By default the retention period is of 30 days and could be customized. 

5. In order to restore the machine to a previous backup point, just go to Restore tab and choose the machine and the point where to restore. 

6. Another feature of vSphere Data Protection is, it provides file level recovery. For that you have to login into the operating system and then onto the url of file level recovery i.e.

https://ApplianceNameOrIP:8543/flr

vSphere Data Protection 6.1 Part 1

• It is available as a Virtual Appliance.
• Minimum requirement:
• RAM - 4GB
• vCPU- 4 running @ 2GHz
• Disk Space: 873GB
• Provides disk based back up for virtual machines.
• It is based on the industry-leading EMC® Avamar® deduplication backup and recovery software.
•  A maximum of 20 vSphere Data Protection appliances can be deployed per vCenter Server.
• As many as eight external proxies (virtual appliances) can be deployed per vSphere Data Protection virtual appliance. 
• vSphere Data Protection supports as much as 8TB of deduplicated backup data capacity per appliance. 

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Data-Protection-Overview.pdf