A new Free resource PDF is available.
Managing vSphere in remote offices can be challenging. A virtualization expert and blogger Christian Mohn which works as a IT administrator for Norvegian shipping company wrote a Free PDF which can help you when you're in a situation, where vSphere deployed in remote offices needs a maintenance, patches deployment, backup/restore operations etc etc. The Whitepaper was sponsored by Veeam Software.
One of the challenges can be the solution proposed by Christian in the whitepaper. For example the storage of those vSphere patches can be configured locally at the remote site – inside of vMA (VMware Management Appliance). This and other tips are available for free when you register and download this White paper.
A quick quote from the resource:
This whitepaper is designed to provide administrators with guidance for designing and managing remote infrastructures based on VMware vSphere 4 and ESX(i) hosts.
The vMA is a command line-based management solution, so most of its tools can be scripted. This is especially helpful when configuring new hosts for remote locations, as administrators can develop scripts that configure the hosts according to company policies, ensuring consistency when deploying new hosts. Install vMA as the first VM on remote infrastructures, to enable command line based management and scripting capabilities without having to rely on the vSphere Client.
Other challenges can arise when thinking about the restore possibilities over a WAN link, or even to get a reliable backup over an unreliable WAN link can make you to change your mind when it comes to design your BC/DR solution.
Here is a quick quote from the source:
Sometimes poor WAN performance can be a problem for central backups, so be sure that the available connection is robust enough to perform backups in this manner. In cases where live backups over the WAN are not possible, a good solution is to take local backups to a local datastore that can be replicated in the background over the WAN link. This ensures quick, local recovery time for the backups, as well as disaster recovery of the data that has been replicated to a central location. Most modern NAS storage offers this kind of functionality at a relatively low cost.
Get The whitepaper from this link.
Enjoy… -:)
