VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, wi...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with th...
The legacy C# vSphere Client for Windows is no more available for vSphere 6...
Note: on March 2025 the RVTools web site has been hacked! Verify when you d...
VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solu...
VMware vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) was introduced in the vSphere...
In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no w...
Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade...
As descrived in the previous post (Optimize the consumed space of the Veeam...
Reading Time: 2 minutesNutanix has release the new version Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS), version 4.5. Acropolis is not only the name of the “native” hypervisor (Acropolis Hypervisor or AHV), but is becoming the name of the entire NOS:
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: 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: Support for vSphere 6.0. FVP enables customers to get world-class storage performance in any modern vSphere environment (5.x and 6.0). New HTML5 based User Interface. PernixPlus. FVP now provides a proactive wellness capability for the collection of pertinent deployment data from PernixData customers. This helps identify potential challenges before they arise, and enables PernixData’s support team to rapidly resolve any issues that arise.
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!
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.1 was announced during the VMworld US 2015 with some new interesting features. Now it’s finally available on VMware vSphere download page. Considering that it’s implemented at hypervisor level, there isn’t a specific download: you have to upgrade (or download) vSphere 6.0 Update 1. VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 increases data protection options for business-critical environments with the new Stretched Cluster feature providing zero-point Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and enhanced VMware vSphere Replication. Additionally, VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 enables new advanced management and monitoring through deep integration with VMware vRealize Operations and […]
| Disclaimer & Copyright
