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VMworld EU 2012 report: VMware keynotes

15 October 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs already written, there were two general session at the VMworld EU (plus another only for partners on Mon afternoon): Tue 9 October, 9.00 AM The new VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and the CTO Steve Herrod have present the news about VMware products, vision and solutions and what they mean as a software-defined datacenter. Wed 10 October, 9.00 AM Steve Herrod and VMware partners take the stage on Tuesday as they demonstrate state of the art technology that is transforming IT and enabling the mobile workforce. Honestly, apart the annonce of new products and other small […]

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VMworld EU 2012: VMware products announcements

10 October 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the announcemens at the VMworld US 2012, VMware has announce new products versions for the Q4 2012: vCloud Connector 5.1 Basic Edition (free) Advanced Edition (that include also interesting feature to move VMs and keep in sync) vCloud Automation Center 5.1 (formerly Dynamic Ops) vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 vFabric Application Director 5.0 vFabric Application Performance Manager 5.0 The main thems where related to the IT innovation, where 84% of global executives believe innovation is extremely important to their growth strategies, but 94% are unsatisfied with their innovation performance! The VMware’s approach to cloud […]

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VMware for SMB

4 October 2012
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the previous post I’ve described the challenge in the SMB segment and some possible scenarios. And how is VMware addressing this challenge? One of the news of the last VMworld, was the attention of the SMB segment with several sessions specific for it, group discussions, business cases and so on. But it’s not limited to VMworld, the attention is growing due to the challenge of fit in the the SMB requirements (that in most cases are quite similar to the enterprise requirements!) and the constrains (where usually are limited budget and limited IT stuff) […]

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VMware VSA 5.1 – Entry level Virtual Storage Appliance

2 October 2012
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVSA (VMware vSphere/Virtual Storage Appliance) is a solution, introduced in version 1.0 with vSphere 5.0, to transform local storage in shared storage. Basically a VA on each node use a local datastore to export it via NFS. But most important is also make a replication to another node. I’ve already talk about it in a VCP exam objective (VSA 1.0 questions are part of VCP5 exam), but honestly the VSA 1.0 had several disadvantages: Cost: from my point of was too high (expecially for the position of this kind of solution). Disks usage: is first […]

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VMware vSphere 5.1: Available on the download page

11 September 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinally VMware vSphere 5.1 is available (after the product announce during the VMworld). Note that now there is also a virtual appliance also for Orchestrator (when one for VUM?). Also vShield is now called VMware vCloud Networking and Security. VMware ESXi 5.1 build: 799733 VMware vCenter Center 5.1 build: 799735 What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1? VMware vSphere 5.1 download page VMware vSphere 5.1 documentation VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 documentation Note that also those other products are now available: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1

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VMware Hands on Labs

10 September 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesEverybody that has attend at least at one VMworld, or at a VMware Partner Exchange, event probably know what is a Hands on Labs (HoL) and probably has run at least a lab. HoL are probably one of the best reason to attend at this kind of event (and also this year were really good) because you can make practice on VMware technologies, and also (in the recent years) are well designed to be scenario oriented (and usually scenarios could be really close to the real world). The HoL infrastructure is really cool (and a […]

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VMworld US 2012 report: new products

4 September 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the VMworld US 2012 several new VMware products has been announced, starting from the VMware Cloud Suite 5.1 announce (from the first keynote) and the End User Computing vision (from the second keynote). The new Cloud Suite will introduce several improvements and new features (for a complete list see: Technical Whitepaper: What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Platform), some already discussed: The vSphere Web Client Enhanced vMotion VM replication in vSphere 5.1 (without SRM) VDP: the new backup product Networking and Security improvements No more vRAM entitlement (also for vSphere 5.0) Changes in prices and edition’s included […]

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