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Bye bye vSphere Client, finally

18 May 2016
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Finally VMware has announced some good news about the vSphere clients: for the (old/legacy) C# client and the web/flash one:

  • the C# client (AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) will not be available for the next version of vSphere (finally!). Current versions of vSphere (6.0, 5.5) will not be affected, as those will follow the standard support period.
  • the web client based on Adobe Flash, will be soon replace (finally!) with a new vSphere pure HTML5 Web Client (actually available through a Fling).

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Tintri unveils its scale-out storage model

17 May 2016
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Tintri Inc. has announced a new scale-out storage platform to enable enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) to build their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure for diverse virtualized workloads. The new platform forms the foundation for the industry’s largest all-flash scale-out, with support for up to 160,000 VMs, 10 petabytes of capacity, and 6.4 million IOPS, for less than $1/GB.

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VMworld 2016 – Where and when

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As announced in the past VMworld 2015 US, the location US for VMworld 2016 will change from San Francisco to Vegas (probably for at least two editions). For the European edition the place will remain the same: again Barcelona. Those will be the dates (similar periods)

  • US edition: will be in Las Vegas during August 28 – September 1 (with a partner day on August 28)
  • EU edition: will be in Barcelona during October 17 – 20 (with probably the partner day on 17)

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ESXi on HP Proliant G7 or lower

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If you are running an HP customized image of ESXi on some old Proliant server, you may have some issues as describe in KB 2094618 (The hp-ams process does not stop when restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers)

When restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers running versions of HP Agentless Management Service (AMS) prior to 10.1.0 , you experience these symptoms:

 

  • In the Recent Tasks pane of vCenter Server, you see multiple tasks in the In Progress state
  • Virtual machines that still have a stuck In Progress task are greyed out
  • You are unable to edit the settings on a virtual machine that has a stuck task
  • The host in which the virtual machines reside are running on HP Proliant Gen 5, 6 or 7 hardware
  • When you run the services.sh restart command within the ESXi console, you see this output while stopping the hp-amsservice:Running hp-ams.sh restart
    ~ # Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …

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Different editions (and prices) for NSX for vSphere

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As promised in the last VMworld, now VMware has introduced two new less-expensive versions of its NSX product targeted for the mid-enterprise. Also on NSX there are now different editions with different prices and, of course, features.

The full version will be the Enterprise one (sigh… on vSphere Enterprise has gone, wasn’t better call it Enterprise Plus), the intermediate Advanced and the starter just Standard. No Essential or Essential Plus, but will be difficult and non sense (yet) apply this kind of technology to the small business.

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Why do we need a bash on Windows?

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One recent announce by Microsoft was the bash support/integration in Windows 10: with the latest Windows Fast Ring update (14316) it’s possible run Bash and Ubuntu commands on Windows 10. This is the result of the partnership between Microsoft and Canonical.

To try this you must be part of the Windows Insider program, then you need to switch your Windows 10 system to the Fast Ring. You do this by going “System Settings > Advanced Windows Update options” and selecting your Insider Preview update setting to the far right.

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Approaching to Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5

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Three months after the releasing of Veeam Backup & Replication v9, Veeam is start talking the next release, that seems to be v9.5 (so an intermediate version).

Last week they have announced the first new major feature: a new storage integration with with Nimble Storage! This integration will complete the existing with EMC, HP and NetApp products (for primary storage) and confirm the rumor of a support not for a big name (at least not one of the biggest), but a promising new storage vendor.

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