By: Chuck Petrie, Blue Medora Over the last decade there has been a huge movement towards virtual platforms to provide highly available environments while offering better utilization, performance, and functionality. A key component to virtualized environments is the sharing and distribution of physical hardware to virtual hosts and virtual machines. Although virtualizing a data center

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Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for October 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Using the VMware Knowledge Base Uploading diagnostic information for VMware using FTP How to purchase and file Pay Per […]

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In my first postI introduced how tobuild the best in class private cloud. You needa programmable software-defined infrastructure, a good cloud management platform, and the right people and processes. This article covers the importance of infrastructure automation for a private cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation provides this very infrastructure automation. This is a great way to

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For many of our readers it’s almost time to renew your VMware Certified Professional (VCP) for another two years. Recertifying gives you a chance to demonstrate advanced technical skills and qualifications skills in a new technology that can boost your salary and advance your career your continued commitment to professional development Find your VCP recertification […]

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VMware recently announced vSphere 6.5, the latest version of its industry-leading virtualization platform. This new release of vSphere features a dramatically simplified experience, comprehensive built-in security, andsignificant enhancements to vSAN and Virtual Volumes. Because there is so much to cover in vSphere 6.5 the Virtually Speaking Podcastdecided to dissectitinto a multi-part series starting with vSphere

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Welcome to season two of the Echo ONE podcast! What began years ago around virtual conference call meetings officially changed into something real, something that could completely change the way we communicate, create products and help customers. To dive into the first stages of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in business and speculate […]

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By Tobias Kreidl Special Note: This is part one of a guest series from Tobias Kreidl, a NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor (NGCA) and Academic Computing Team Lead at Northern Arizona University. Tobias has considerable experience in using a range of NVIDIA technologies for HPC, VDI, and graphics as a long-time user of NVIDIA Quadro, Tesla, and […]

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In case you missed my last post, I talked coveredhow to keep vRealize Operationssimple in my interview with Hicham Mourad and with his VMworld 2016 session - The KISS of vRealize Operations. Make sure you check it out if you haven’t read it (well, watched it) as the interview is good but the VMworld session

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By: Alain Geenrits, Blue Medora.   Policies and custom groups are the most critical features in vRealize Operations. They are simply indispensable to set up a customized working monitoring environment in your shop, yet they are the feature that is most ignored or misunderstood. If you install vROps out of the box it analyzes your

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The PostgreSQL Magazine project is back with an original concept named The Paper Elephant : a folded newspaper with a dynamic look & feel.

As always the content comes directly from the community ! In this first issue, we gathered articles from key members of the PostgreSQL project: Josh Berkus talks about the new version numbering scheme,
Hans-Jürgen Schönig writes about performance and Craig Kierstens an overview of JSON, JSONB and hstore. You'll also find an interview of Paul Ramsey from the PostGIS project.

The Paper Elephant is an independent media edited by and for the PostgreSQL Community. This issue was created with the financial help of PostgreSQL Europe and many benevolent contributors ( witers, editors, reviewers ). Kudos to all of them.

Just like the name says, The Paper Elephant is a "paper first" media: it is designed to be printed out and distributed during events (conferences, meetups, etc.) to promote PostgreSQL.

The first edition will be available at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016, Paris Open Source Summit 2016 and FOSDEM 2017. If you want to distribute the magazine at a local IT event, please Contact Us !

If you want a glimpse of the newspaper, you can download the PDF version here: http://pgmag.org/download

The Paper Elephant is an open and community-driven project. Joins us at http://www.pgmag.org/contribute

November 1, 2016: Crunchy Data is proud to announce pgBackRest 1.09, Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore.

Release 1.09

Since 1.0 we have improved scalability, added backup from a standby, selective restore, and support for the 9.6 non-exclusive backup method. All the major new features since 1.0 are detailed below.

Links

• Website
• Download
• Release Notes
• Documentation
• User Guide
• Support

New Features

Improved Multi-Processing Scalability

Converted Perl threads to child processes to improve compatibility and greatly increase scalability. 3TB/hour backup speeds can be achieved with 32 cores and 10GbE, including compression and checksums.

Backup from a Standby Cluster

Performing backups on a standby host greatly reduces CPU and IO load on the master host. pgBackRest copies the majority of the files from the standby and only a few from the master, while still producing a backup exactly as if it were performed entirely on the master.

Selective Restore

Selected databases can be restored from a cluster backup to save space when not all the databases are required. WAL replay during restore takes place for all databases so some space will be used, but generally far less than if the unneeded databases were restored completely. After recovery completes the unrestored databases will not be accessible but can be dropped in the usual way.

Non-Exclusive Backups

Support for non-exclusive backups in PostgreSQL 9.6.

Directory/File Exclusions

Exclude directories during backup that are cleaned, recreated, or zeroed by PostgreSQL at startup. These include pgsql_tmp and pg_stat_tmp. The postgresql.auto.conf.tmp file is now excluded in addition to files that were already excluded: backup_label.old, postmaster.opts, postmaster.pid, recovery.conf, recovery.done.

Exclude contents of $PGDATA/pg_replslot directory so that replication slots on the master do not become part of the backup.

Enhanced Info Command

Enhanced text output of info command to include timestamps, sizes, and the reference list for all backups.

Check Command

Added check command to validate that pgBackRest is configured correctly for archiving and backups.

Flexible Configuration

More flexible configuration for databases. Master and standby can both be configured on the backup server and pgBackRest will automatically determine which is the master. This means no configuration changes for backup are required after failing over from a master to standby when a separate backup server is used.

About

pgBackRest aims to be a simple, reliable backup and restore system that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads. Instead of relying on traditional backup tools like tar and rsync, pgBackRest implements all backup features internally and uses a custom protocol for communicating with remote systems. Removing reliance on tar and rsync allows for better solutions to database-specific backup challenges. The custom remote protocol allows for more flexibility and limits the types of connections that are required to perform a backup which increases security.

Crunchy Data supports the ongoing and active development of pgBackRest as an entirely open source project, released under the BSD-compatible MIT license.

NVIDIA and Unity want to help developers deliver great VR and PC gaming experiences – and we want them now. So we’re giving developers an easy way to use NVIDIA VRWorks and GameWorks libraries in their Unity-based titles. Today at Unite LA, we’re enabling select VR partners with early access to an NVIDIA-version of Unity […]

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If you’re a creative pro who plans to play VR Funhouse — NVIDIA’s free, virtual reality game — at this year’s Adobe MAX conference, here’s your takeaway: you can create in VR, too. The story behind the story: VR Funhouse started last year as a technology demo. We wanted to showcase what our GameWorks and […]

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