Browsing Posts published in May, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes The VMUG CloudOps SIG events are back again! After the last one on VMware NSX, the first webinar of this year will be on vRealize Automation (vRA), and how build Hybrid Cloud Management with vRealize Automation. There is still time to register for the upcoming CloudOps VMUG SIG Webinar taking place on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Also if is not yet clear the impact of the EMC acquisition by Dell, at least in the storage portfolio, seems clear that the Dell storage strategy for the next years will be Compellent centric, with the position of this type of product also as a future replacement for the PowerVault MD3 and EqualLogic. Dell storage portfolio has slightly change with the introduction of the SC4020 (as a mid-size solution) and then the SC2000v as a entry level solution. And also the new SC9000 at a high level position.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Finally VMware has announced some good news about the vSphere clients: for the (old/legacy) C# client and the web/flash one: the C# client (AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) will not be available for the next version of vSphere (finally!). Current versions of vSphere (6.0, 5.5) will not be affected, as those will follow the standard support period. the web client based on Adobe Flash, will be soon replace (finally!) with a new vSphere pure HTML5 Web Client (actually available through a Fling).

Reading Time: 4 minutes Tintri Inc. has announced a new scale-out storage platform to enable enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) to build their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure for diverse virtualized workloads. The new platform forms the foundation for the industry’s largest all-flash scale-out, with support for up to 160,000 VMs, 10 petabytes of capacity, and 6.4 million IOPS, for less than $1/GB.

Reading Time: 2 minutes As announced in the past VMworld 2015 US, the location US for VMworld 2016 will change from San Francisco to Vegas (probably for at least two editions). For the European edition the place will remain the same: again Barcelona. Those will be the dates (similar periods) US edition: will be in Las Vegas during August 28 – September 1 (with a partner day on August 28) EU edition: will be in Barcelona during October 17 – 20 (with probably the partner day on 17)

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you are running an HP customized image of ESXi on some old Proliant server, you may have some issues as describe in KB 2094618 (The hp-ams process does not stop when restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers) When restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers running versions of HP Agentless Management Service (AMS) prior to 10.1.0 , you experience these symptoms:   In the Recent Tasks pane of vCenter Server, you see multiple tasks in the In Progress state Virtual machines that still […]

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