
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo enhance the commitment to customer satisfaction, VMware has just announced the decision of extending the general support period for VMware vSphere 7.x of six month, from April 2, 2025 to October 2, 2025.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo enhance the commitment to customer satisfaction, VMware has just announced the decision of extending the general support period for VMware vSphere 7.x of six month, from April 2, 2025 to October 2, 2025.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event: from cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions. But why attend at this kind of events?
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event, and as usual, after the US edition there will be an EU edition. VMware Explore 2024 EU will be at Barcelona from 4th to 7th November! From cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines (running Windows and Linux) and from other virtual machine formats. Actually the most recent version remain the Converter 6.6 updated on Feb, 22 2024. Considering that one of my most requested article was VMware Converter guest OS support, I decide to make an updated version.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is the final release to support Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in VMware SSO as explained in the VMware KB 314324 (Removal of Integrated Windows Authentication). Note that also all IWA related functionalities like Windows Session Authentication (SSPI) will be removed in a future ESXi release! IWA was deprecated in vSphere 7.0 and wth vSphere 8.0 GA there was a warning message during the vCenter upgrade:
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere upgrade or update you have to check all compatibility aspects. One is related to the backup software that can be critical because you may loose the capability to perform backup and/or restore. For Veeam Backup & Replication there is a specific Veeam KB (KB 2443) that provides information about compatibility between VMware vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Intel® Xeon® CPU Max Series is designed to maximize bandwidth with the new high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This new processor is architected to unlock performance and speed discoveries in data-intensive workloads, such as modeling, artificial intelligence, deep learning, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics.