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VMTurbo announce Operations Manager 4.0

12 June 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMTurbo has announced the new release of Operarion Manager, now in v4.0 with new foundational features and a modular approach to controlling all layers of the virtualized data center via extensions. Operations Manager already can find how your resouces are used and improve their utilization, for example there is an interesting whitepaper on how you can reduce your infrastructure costs in a VMWare vCloud Director infrastructure. This tool provide a smarter way to control your cloud and virtualized environments, and now with the new editions and the modular approach it adds new interesting features.

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EMEA #vBrownbag – VCAP5-CIA Objective 1

11 June 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs you know the EMEA edition of #vBrownbag has started and it has covered the VCP on the Cloud and the EUC (or DT) path and some VCAP (for more information, see the full list of certification paths and my session at the #vBrownbag at VMworld). The next scheduled session is dedicated at VCAP5-CIA certification (the admin part of the cloud path) with an introduction and the analysis of section 1 of the official blueprint:

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Red Hat Summit 2013: Why attend

10 June 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesRed Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event to showcase the latest and greatest in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management technologies. The Summit and JBoss World 2013 edition will be on June 11 – 14, 2013 at the Hynes Center in Boston.

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VCAP5-CIA study guides

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe VCAP-CIA is the administration VCAP related exam for the VMware Cloud certification path. Was released some months ago (after the common beta period) and is the second type “admin role based” exam (after the VCAP-DCA one). Considering how is recent and new there are only few info about it: some exam experiences (mostly in the beta period), the confirmation that is based on vCloud Director 5.1 and of course the official page and documentation (including the blueprint). There is also a CIA LinkedIn Group to discuss your study plans. Strange but there isn’t yet […]

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Installing vCloud Director in a lab

5 June 2013
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Reading Time: 5 minutesBuild a vCloud lab is interesting to increase your skill and knowledge, make some test and of course preparing for the VCAP-CIA exam. If you build on a ESXi nested environment you will not have too much problem (except with old hardware that may not support complete ESXi nesting with vSphere 5.1). With a VMware Workstation environment (of course with enough memory and resources) could be more fun and portable. But could be more difficult if you plan to use vCloud Director virtual appliance.

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OVF deployment and configuration

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome of the interesting aspects of the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) are the simplicity in the distribution, the power in the portability, the platform independence (although is not completely platform agnostic) and the ability to add additional metadata used for the configuration or simple to give more information about the OVF package. It’s also an open standard, proposed and submitted to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) in September 2007 by VMware, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft and XenSource.

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Free cloud services for SMB

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post (Approaching the SMB segment), I’ve already considered some solutions and approaches for SMB. Public cloud (especially in a SaaS form) could be an interesting way in several scenarios. The interesting aspects is that there are several services also for free, valuable both for personal use, but also for SMB (mainly for small-sized companies).

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