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Enhanced vMotion with vSphere 5.1

29 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the new vSphere 5.1 a new vMotion option has been added (only in the new Web Client) that combine vMotion and Storage vMotion in a singe hot migration step to migrate between hosts/clusters without shared storage! This could increase the mobility of the VMs and usage also of local storage (for some cases). Both VM state and VM files are transported across network using the vMotion vmkernel interfaces (so a good network design could be necessary). The requirements are: Hosts must be managed by same vCenter Server Hosts must be part of same Datacenter […]

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Bye bye vSphere Client

29 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the previous new products release we have notice several changes in some core parts, and several components are gone (see What’s in and what’s out). Now with the new vSphere 5.1 a new historical component (from the VI 3.0) will die soon: the vSphere Client! The limits of this client are: it works only on Windows client (so it isn’t a multi-platform solution) and has some dependency with the .NET Frameworks it’s a thick client-server approach (compared with thin solutions, like browser oriented) it’s “complicated” to deploy and upgrade (strange that VMware has not […]

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VMware reveils the news in the End User Computing

28 August 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the keynote of the second day, Steve Herrold have present the new End User Computing (EUC) solutions from VMware. Starting from the new View and Mirage approach where you can handle both physical and virtual desktop and you really plan both Windows OS migrations (from XP to 7 for example), but also handle the move from physical to virtual (with a real good live example from Vittorio Viarengo). The next part was the Horizon Suite that can handle the access to all desktops, applications, data of you EUC. Included the Horizon Mobile that could […]

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VMware Cloud Suite 5.1 announce

27 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, during the live event, VMware has announced the new release of most of their Cloud Suite products (concept already introduced with the announce of the release 5). New release will be v5.1 for all products to adopt a uniform and consistency enumeration across products (View 5.1 was already released some month ago!). So this will be the versions changes for the suite: vSphere 5.0 -> 5.1 vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 1.0 -> 5.1? vCloud Director 1.5 -> 5.1 vShield 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter SRM 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter Operations 5.0 -> 5.1? As you […]

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VMware Workstation 9 and Fusion 5

23 August 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCould seems strange, but VMware has announce the new release of Workstation 9 and Fusion 5 some days before VMworld US. Probably to keep the focus of the announces on the Enterprise and Cloud platform. For Workstation, of course this release will support Windows 8 (seems also in the Windows 8 style interface). But more interesting seems: OpenGL support in Linux Restricted Virtual Machines A new web interface to share VMs Hyper-V (although is not supported) See also: VMware Workstation 9 has been released VMware launches Workstation 9 and Fusion 5

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VM replication in VMware SRM 5.0

23 August 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the interesting feature of VMware SRM 5.0.x is the vSphere Replication (VR) technology that is a VM a replication engine (part of SRM 5.0 and that also requires ESXi 5.0 and later) to implement protecting and replicating virtual machines between sites without the need of storage array–based replication (that usually it’s costly and too much vendor dependent). It use different elements: VRA (vSphere Replication agent): included in ESXi starting from v5.0 VRMS (vSphere Replication Management Server): one virtual appliance (VA) for each site to handle the communication VRS (vSphere Replication Server): one virtual […]

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Issue in VM migration: MAC Address may change

22 August 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I got a strange issue using a cold storage migration usign the Migrate function of vCenter Server. This was the scenario: a Free Hypervisor with some VMs where a full license (Essential Plus) was added and the host was also added to a vCenter Server. For compatibility matrix reason the version 4.1 was used (although the storage can work with vSphere 5.0 but officially was not supported). Also the Free Hypervisor was build with the 4.0 version and upgraded (one year ago) to the 4.1 version. This was the issue: after a cold storage […]

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