Vizioncore working at VMware virtual machines replication

Posted by Alessandro Perilli   |   Thursday, February 16, 2006   |   2 Comments
Scott Herold reports on VMTN Forums about a new product in development from Vizioncore called esxReplicator:
Vizioncore is working on a product called esxReplicator which is capable of doing VMDK level replication across the network. There is a rules engine that can synch your data based on 2 criteria...the amount of time passed (every hour), or after a certain amount of change (32MB). As soon as the threshold is hit, the difference is sent over the wire to a remote location. Because you have full control over size or time incriments, it is a very fast replication once the initial sync is done. Because the differentials are so small, there is no performance impact to the guests in the configuration. I have no ETA on release or timeframes of the product, it was something that they introduced and demod at the VMUG (VMware User Groug) meeting.

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Blogger Scott Herold Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:05:00 PM  
I had a VERY nasty typo on this post. The last line should read:

"Because you have full control over size or time incriments, it is a very fast replication once the initial sync is done. Because the differentials are so small, there is no performance impact to the guests in the configuration."
Anonymous Anonymous Friday, February 17, 2006 2:16:00 PM  
I saw a demo on this at vmworld and it requires software installed on a windows machine to control this replication. It's an interesting software because it's seems like a cheap solution for replicating vmdk's between locations.

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