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Browsing Posts published in October, 2018

Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 vs. VMware vSphere 6.7

31 October 2018
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Now that both Microsoft and VMware have officially announced the new released of their virtualization products it’s possible to make some kind of comparison between Hyper-V available on Windows Server 2019 and vSphere 6.7 (like I’ve done some years ago with the Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 vs. VMware vSphere 6.5 article). Comparing two different product is not so easy, also if they are released closed one each other (at least in the same year). You need to found some homogenous aspects to make the comparison, at least at the technical level (but as written, it’s not so […]

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What are VMware Specialist badges?

30 October 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutes VMware certification paths are quite clear with well defined technology paths (DCV, EUC, NV, Cloud) and different levels (VCP, VCAP, VCDX). All certifications require at least one proctored exam (some may require two different exams). The names of all exams and certifications will change using a “year” notation, but the concept remain the same. But there are also other type of exam, non proctored and just on-line version. One example are the Foundation exams.

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IBM is acquiring Red Hat

29 October 2018
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This news is very huge: IBM is acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion ($190 per share in cash). The acquisition is expected to close in the latter half of 2019. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM, like was when VMware was acquired by EMC, and this is the first positive aspect to keep a proper independence of the company and the products. And the Red Hat unwavering commitment to Open Source innovation can remain unchanged.

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Using Spinbackup to protect Office365 in the cloud

26 October 2018
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Found a proper way to protect your public cloud services and your data in a public cloud is becoming more and more important, to achieve a desired retention limit, but also to have more control on the data and the restorability of them. One interesting case is the messaging and collaboration services, like Office365 and G Suite.

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Xen Project celebrates 15 years

25 October 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently, during VMworld US 2018, VMware has celebrated the 20 years of the company. But there is another virtualization project that has a lot of history like VMware: the Xen Project and this October marks our 15th anniversary. On October 2003, Ian Pratt (founder of the Xen Project) announces the first stable release of the Xen virtual machine monitor for x86, and port of Linux 2.4.22 as a guest OS. It was one of the most popular open source hypervisors and amasses more than 10 million users; but now there is a clear rise of KVM and also […]

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Veeam Backup VDDK async operation error 14009

24 October 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Some days ago I’ve got a strange error during the backup job of a vSphere 6.7 (not Update 1) environment with latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication. The job was starting correctly, VMs have been discoverted, but when the backup start to copy the VMDK the job failed with a “VDDK async operation error 14009” message.

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Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 6.0

23 October 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Virtual Instruments introduced the next generation of VirtualWisdom, a comprehensive full-stack, real-time, hybrid IT Infrastructure Management Platform. By visualising the infrastructure in the context of the application, VirtualWisdom 6.0 enables organisations to proactively gain full control over the performance and availability of the applications across their modern hybrid data centres. In doing so, VirtualWisdom delivers improved control, greater business agility and reduced costs. Furthermore, it brings an end to the costly, unproductive and antiquated “IT war rooms” typically created to resolve critical application slowdowns and outages.

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StarWind rPerf a free RDMA benchmarking tool

22 October 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is an interesting way to improve network connections and bandwith by providing a direct memory access from the memory of one system  into that of another. Compared to the full TCP/IP stack, RDMA can be managed without involving either one’s operating system (OS) and this means saving host resources and speed-up the communication. RDMA permits high-throughput and low-latencynetworking, but more important is becoming a common feature on some network card, and also supported by different OSes and hypervisors.

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VMware vSphere 6.7U1 supports Active Directory 2016

18 October 2018
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The new release VMware vSphere 6.7U1 has a lot of improvements, but one has not been emphasized too much: VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 finally supports Microsoft Active Directory 2016 schema and relative functional level! Lot of people forget that  vCenter Server, vCenter Single Sign-On and the VMware Platform Services Controller have their own interoperability matrix with Active Directory versions based on the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain functional level, not only with the Windows Server operating system on which Active Directory is running.

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A3 Communications Technology Live!

18 October 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutes A3 Communications helps organisations in the data storage and virtualisation industries to significantly increase their brand awareness and create leading reputations among their target audiences through unparalleled expertise, reliability, and results thanks to bespoke PR, AR and SoMe programmes. Every day A3 Communications helps larger and smaller players, established and emerging ones alike, increase their share of voice, mindshare and ultimately market share. Today A3 Communications has a direct presence in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and USA and a proven network of partners in the rest of the world.

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Vembu BDR Suite V4.0

17 October 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Vembu is a player in the backup and data protection world, maybe not (yet) well-know, but for sure not new at all and with a complete suite that covers the physical world, the virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and also some public cloud SaaS solutions. One of their product is the Vembu Backup&DR (BDR) Suite that helps you to backup the virtual and physical machines and aids your business continuity, having VMware, Hyper-V, Physical Windows Servers, Workstations, Linux, and Mac with RTO & RPO<15 minutes and minimal administration effort.

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Veeam Backup & Replication issue with vSphere 6.7 Update 1

17 October 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Seams that the new VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 will break all the Veeam Backup & Replication backup jobs! As reported in the Veeam KB 2443, VMware 6.7 Update 1 is actually NOT supported by Veeam B&R and will be supported only with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. More information are available on Veeam KB 2784 and this forum thread.

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VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is finally GA

16 October 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutes After some months from the announce, finally VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is now generally available (GA) and you can now download all the bits. Of course, this also mean a new version of the VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1. But more importantly it means also a fully featured vSphere Client with the new version of the HTML5 client in vSphere 6.7 Update 1! There is a bunch of videos available on YouTube with all the HTML5 client features. But before read more, note that actually Veeam Backup and Replication does not support vSphere 6.7 […]

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