Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, what’s in it for VMs?

Last Wednesday 10th of Nov, Red Hat released their Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) server operating system. RHEL 6 has improvements for use on vSphere platform, VMware paravirtual devices vmxnet3 and pvscsi are supported out of the box, and in fact are default net and SCSI devices for RHEL 6 guest on vSphere 4.1. Other [...]

VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Linux file level restore client

Latest VMware Data Recovery release 1.2 brought file level restore capability (aka FLR) for Linux VMs. Windows FLR client has been officially supported since 1.1, see my previous blog post about it. I did a quick review of using Linux FLR on CentOS Linux.

VMware Data Recovery 1.2 documentation says that Linux FLR client [...]

Working with Linux volumes on vSphere

Modern Linux distributions running on VMware vSphere are capable for dynamic storage management, it is possible to create new file systems or extend existing without need to stop services and reboot servers. Here are some examples how to that, these methods work at least on Red Hat and CentOS 5.x distributions.

Things to consider [...]