Browsing Posts published in August, 2019

Reading Time: 14 minutesUniversal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry-standard that establishes specifications for cables and connectors and protocols for connection, communication, also and power supply between computers, peripheral devices and other computers. How USB is supported in VMware vSphere? In a recent article for the StarWind blog, I’m going to take a closer look at USB standard and how use it in a VMware vSphere environment. Read the full article on StarWind blog site: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/usb-support-in-vmware-vsphere

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring VMworld US 2019 there was also space for some “minor” products like Workstation and Fusion. “Minor”, but still important in the future of VMware… and really important in the past (first VMware’s product was VMware Workstation). Also it’s good sign see that those products are still vital, considering that three year ago there were some rumors and doubts about the future of Workstation and Fusion products, due to the laying off some employees from the related teams.

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring VMworld US 2019, VMware has announced the future release of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.5. Unfortunately, has happened in past, this is just a product announce, without provide the code of it and the date of General Availability (GA) release date (but I guess will be on VMworld EU 2019). I usually prefer talk about what exist now and see the release notes.

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the day 1 of VMworld US 2019 there was a big announce about a new VMware vSphere impementation, called Project Pacific. Project Pacific will be the biggest evolution of VMware vSphere in the last decade and a huge milestone.

Reading Time: 2 minutesChanged Block Tracking (CBT) is a VMware feature introduced in vSphere 4.0 in order to implement native incremental backup at source level. VMware VDAP uses this technology and so all backup and recovery software designed for VMware use it for speed the backup. This mean that all the backup products that are using VDAP, will rely on VMware API and features, … and bugs.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere leverages a vast vSphere driver ecosystem to run various I/O stacks like networking and storage on server platforms.  This ecosystem is built out with technologies from many I/O partners. To better address the need to build software-defined infrastructure (SDI) based on vSphere, VMware introduced the vSphere kernel native AP The Native Device Driver architecture is not something new. Since its introduction more than five years ago, VMware encourages their hardware ecosystem partners to work on developing native drivers. VMware plans to deprecate the vmkLinux APIs and associated driver ecosystem with the next numbered release (not an update release) of VMware vSphere.  The […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesRunecast is a company that provides actionable predictive analytics for VMware vSphere environments. Runecast Analyzer is a solution that provides software-defined expertise to mitigate service outages, increase security and compliance and reduce time in troubleshooting. This solution can discover hidden issues in your vSphere environment by using the current VMware Knowledge Base articles, that is probably the most trusted, complete and up-to-date public source of known issues and best practices related to VMware products, but it’s also typically used reactively, once the problem already persists.

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