Reading Time: 5 minutesMastering VMware vSphere Storage book is intented for users who already have some experience with the VMware vSphere platform and want to learn and design VMware vSphere storage solutions and how to troubleshoot vSphere storage issues.
The main purpose of this book is monitor and optimize the storage capabilities of your vSphere environment.
Reading Time: 5 minutesDuring the past VMworld US 2015, I’ve also attend at the last Tech Field Day extra day and got the opportunity to know Datto.
Datto is an innovative provider of comprehensive backup, recovery and business continuity solutions used by thousands of managed service providers worldwide. This is the description from their web site, but honestly was not so easy understand what they really during the first part of the presentation.
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne myth of public cloud services is that is cheaper compared to private services, but it’s (or it could be) wrong. The reality is that you don’t have CapEx and you have usually monthly OpEx.
But in the long (or sometimes also in the short) term could become more costly rather than an on-prem solution. Of course it depends by the service type and the real OpEx cost of your on-prem solution (sometimes not so easy to evaluate).
But also public cloud services may have some costs that are not so easy to be evaluated or estimated. Some services provider are really good by bring the credit and the cost much visible as possible, some others maybe not (or not yet).
Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the last VMworld US, I’ve got the opportunity to talk with Yoram Novick, CEO of Maxta, about their storage solutions. Maxta’s mission is to dramatically simplify and streamline IT by thinking outside the storage box.
Their idea is simple: eliminate Storage Arrays and Storage Networking with a completely software based storage solution that provide an hypervisor agnostic, VM-centric Enterprise-class data services for VM agility, continuous availability, data protection, and capacity optimization.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 5.5 has a new update release and now it’s available the vSphere 5.5 U3 on the download site.
For the hypervisor part, except the bug issues fixed, the most interesting news are the certification of PVSCSI Adapter, where the PVSCSI adapter is certified for use with MSCS, core clustering and applications including SQL and Exchange, and the support for Next Generation Processors, with the addition of next generation processors from Intel and AMD.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the version 2.5, PernixData announces the general availability of FVP Version 3.0 and the new FVP Freedom Platform.
FVP version 3.0 specific new features include:
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs announced during the VMworld session “INF5123 – Managing vSphere Deployments and Upgrades – Part 2”, VMware Tools 10.0.0 have been released, and (starting from 3rd September) are available in the MyVMware download page as a separated package.
Separated and independed from VMware Fusion, Workstation and ESXi virtualization solutions!
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