Opvizor = next Gold sponsor
I’m please to announce my last gold sponsor, Opvizor
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Back in 2008 I attended a VMware VMworld event in Cannes and met a chap who gave me a signed copy of his book. His name was Dennis Zimmer. I’d followed Dennis and known he’d had a connection with Mighty.de. I lost touch with Dennis and then bumped into him at a VMUG session this year in London. Dennis told me he was now the CEO for Opvizor. Now I’d heard of Opvizor but before the VMUG session didn’t know what they did. After the demo I was hooked on the story, it made sense.
Opvizor offers a paradigm-shifting solution in the VMware market space. They create an unprecedented return for its clients – allowing customers to not only greatly reduce downtime, but identify and eliminate resource limitations, broken snapshots and wasted resources. Customers have realized a 52% decrease in resource costs by using Opvizor.
Opvizor was founded by former Virtualization Consultant and System Engineer, Dennis Zimmer, as a solution to reduce the amount of time you spend researching and solving problems. Now a 6-time vExpert and author of 10 books on VMware, Dennis’ goal is ensure that the community of VMware experts in conjunction with opvizor’s clients and partners continue to contribute to that larges rulebase in the industry (730 and growing.)
These rules allow Opvizor clients to predict potential root foundation failures before they emerge and potentially compromising their environment – allowing companies to be truly proactive. opvizor’s team of vExperts validate every rule and provide best-practice solutions to each rule.
Because of our approach and interaction with the community, we have built an incredible database of information to share and to give back to the community who has helped build who we are.
Opvizor Summary
· Community-driven
· Largest rulebase in the industry
· Provides solutions to each issue it uncovers
· All rules and solutions validated by a team of vExperts
· Unprecedented ROI
· See stats on your environment in under an hour
And oh did I mention the solution is cloud based 🙂
Another vCAC 6 Repo404 error
Today I decided to try to continue the rebuild of my lab and I fired up vCAC 6 and once again received an Repo404 error as seen in my previous post >here< . I decided reinstall time thinking I’d not fixed the problem the last-time but decided not to wipe out the old VMs. I got to the part where I’d all but finished preparing the IaaS server for install when I noticed my SQL database was not online……DOH…so there you have it, Repo404 error can also mean database problems.
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Rackware = Next Gold Sponsor
I’m pleased to announce Rackware as the next gold sponsor.
Rackware is new to me but its something we are looking at in Canopy. The way I understand it right now is that its a platspin alternative but for cloud…. Exactly what we need…
RackWare brings intelligence and automation to the cloud, providing greater availability for enterprises, greater flexibility for enterprise IT users, and reduced costs for enterprise IT providers. Computing resources—physical, virtual, and cloud machines—can be easily and automatically scaled up or down as demand fluctuates
RackWare focus on delivering Cloud migrations and simplifying DRAAS. By enabling the easy migration of server workloads into and between cloud environments and Data Centers, we make it easier to migrate into, between and out of cloud / data centre infrastructure, simplifying cloud / data centre migration projects, reducing the cost and risk associated with these projects.
Rackware provide heterogeneous support for physical and virtual workloads, and private, public and hybrid clouds to allow easy workload mobility and elasticity, allowing you to basically move into and between your chosen cloud, or data center and then scale resources on demand in an easier fashion.
RackWare enables enterprises to easily and cost-effectively leverage private, public, or hybrid cloud environments without having to change applications or operating systems. The two major components are mobility and elasticity for both Enterprise User and Service Providers.
The Rackware approach enables users to scale cost effectively across private and public clouds without any application re-writes. Even better, RackWare lets users dynamically allocate between current infrastructure and cloud, and back again if need be.
This simplified approach results in marked savings in both capital and operational expenditures. RackWare is a truly heterogeneous approach that helps users avoid lock-in of server vendor, hypervisor, or cloud provider.
Client On-Boarding
RackWare provides a push button, automated mechanism to move existing workloads between different datacenters and clouds.
Disaster Recovery AAS in the Cloud
Combining both mobility and elasticity, RMM Disaster Recovery in the Cloud is an easy to use, economical solution that provides significantly improved support over traditional tape backup at a cost that is small fraction of maintaining a replicated datacenter.
Tools for Elasticity
• AutoScaling: RMM delivers automatic scaling for both private and public clouds as well as for datacenters based on real-time usage, load and performance.
• AutoParking: The RMM Policy Engine supports schedule-based AutoParking, which can be applied to hosts or group of hosts with a high degree of scheduling flexibility and detail.
• Cloud Bursting: RMM scales across one or many heterogeneous clouds so core applications and infrastructure stay in the datacenter and have peak usage demands met in the cloud.