vSphere Data Protection

One of the new features of vSphere 5.1 was the introduction of vSphere Data Protection (since vSphere Data Recovery is discontinued), a new virtual machine backup and recovery software for our vSphere virtual infrastructure 5.1. Like VMware Data Recovery uses VADP (vSphere API for Data Protection) with CBT (Changed Blocks Tracking), but it also uses EMC Avamar's variable block-level deduplication to optimize copies and restores. Provide deduplication together to all appliance tasks and VMs. It is fully integrated with the vSphere Web Client and will provide the possibility of file recovery to end users.

Reducing the vCenter DB Size

This document will be useful in reducing the size of our VMware vCenter database, it will also be necessary when it reaches the limits if we have it in a SQL Express, since the services will not start and therefore we will have errors in the registry that will indicate it to us.

VMware Horizon Application Manager

In this document, we'll look at deploying VMware Horizon Application Manager, which is a web portal where we will have two interfaces, one for management and one for our users, where we can present our ThinApp applications. Relying on a SaaS cloud service (Software as a Service) users will be able to open the ThinApp applications they need in a very simple way. Also with the recent version of VMware ThinApp, we will be able to integrate our packages more easily with the Horizon App Manager portal.

I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

vShield Data Security

Inside the vShield family, we could enable the vShield Data Security service in order to have visibility into the leakage of sensitive information in our company, He will show it to us in some reports, where we can confirm that we have the information correctly secured, being able to evaluate compliance with any regulation in the world.

Installing the vShield App

Como ya vimos en el documento anterior, desplegamos nuestro vShield Manager para poder gestionar nuestro entorno vShield, en este documento desplegaremos el appliance firewall vShield App para proteger mediante reglas de red el acceso entre nuestras máquinas virtuales, desplegaremos un vShield App por cada host.