Browsing Posts published in June, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA3 Technology Live! is a one-day event, organized by A3 Communications, where up to four vendors showcase their technologies in action to a group of technical journalists, bloggers and analysts. A combination of presentations and demos allows each company to present its solutions with a much higher level of detail than is usually possible in traditional briefings. A highly interactive day for all participants.  Each editions has 3-4 companies, usually storage related, presenting their vision and/or products.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year there will be only the VMware Explore in USA (again in Las Vegas) and no more an European edition (VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona was the last european edition). But this year there is a big news: VMware Explore on Tour.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, with the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). But now Broadcom has released the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. So, the question is easy… where is the ESXi 9.0 free edition?

Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Product Support Notes there are several VMware features deprecated! All of deprecated features will be removed in a future vCenter release. And some features has already been removed in version 9.0 because deprecated in previous versions. Deprecation of vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS):

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) was introduced in the vSphere 7 Update 1 release with the idea of creating a decoupled and distributed control plane for clustering services in vSphere. But with VMware vSphere 8.0.3, the vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) will be “migrated” with a new Embedded vSphere Cluster Service model. The entire vSphere Cluster Service (vCLS) is rearchitected to use fewer resources, remove storage footprint, and eliminate issues associated with vCLS deployment.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you create a virtual machine or upgrade an existing virtual machine, you use the virtual machine compatibility setting to select the ESXi host versions that the virtual machine can run on. The compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. Virtual hardware includes BIOS and EFI, available virtual PCI slots, the maximum number of CPUs, the maximum memory configuration, and other characteristics. New virtual hardware capabilities are typically released once a year with major or minor releases of vSphere. The new VCF and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam has just released a new patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 to solve several bug and security issues described in https://www.veeam.com/kb4743. The new version will be: 12.3.2.3617 You can check the installed build number in the Veeam Backup & Replication Console’s Main Menu (≡) under Help > About. This patch includes also other bug fixes… for more information see https://www.veeam.com/kb4696

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