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 [...]