Archive for June 17th, 2008

IBM Storage Virtualisation Updates (2008-6-17)

IBM’s SVC has been around for a good few years now and it is by all accounts quite popular. It does a great job of aggregating lots of disparate storage (IBM and Non-IBM) and presenting through a more scalable and manageable interface.
Well SVC has had a make-over with the release of 4.3 and some [...]

Tripwire ConfigCheck (2008-6-17)

I was looking for an app that would investigate an ESX host that wasn’t configured by me to see how much work would be needed to secure it.
I found Tripwire’s ConfigCheck java app an absolute cracker.

NetApp Open Systems SnapVault for VI3 (2008-6-17)

NetApp have released a powerful new addition to the Open Systems SnapVault range for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
OSSV installs directly into the VMware ESX service console and acts as a very light-weight interface to backup Virtual Machines on NetApp storage and non-NetApp storage. It works best with NetApp Protection Manager, but works well as a stand-alone [...]