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Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 vs. VMware vSphere 6.7

31 October 2018
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Reading Time: 10 minutesNow 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 minutesVMware 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 minutesThis 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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ESXi Quick Boot on Dell PowerEdge Server

27 October 2018
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Reading Time: 3 minutesQuick Boot is a vSphere feature that speeds up the upgrade process of an ESXi server.  A regular reboot involves a full power cycle that requires firmware and device initialization.  Quick Boot optimizes the reboot path to avoid this, saving considerable time from the upgrade process. Quick Boot of an ESXi host is a setting that allows VMWare Update Manager (VUM) to optimize the remediation time of hosts that undergo patch and upgrade operations. If the Quick Boot feature is enabled, Update Manager skips the hardware reboot (the BIOS or UEFI firmware reboot). As a result, the […]

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Using Spinbackup to protect Office365 in the cloud

26 October 2018
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Reading Time: 6 minutesFound 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 minutesRecently, 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 minutesSome 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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