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VMware to Acquire DynamicOps

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DynamicOps, Inc., a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments – VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in Q3 2012 subject to customary closing conditions. See also: Official VMware announce VMware cloud management goes multi-hypervisor with DynamicOps buy

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Dell is acquiring Quest Software

Reading Time: 2 minutesRumors were from some months ago, but today Quest announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Dell. Dell will buying Quest for $2.4 Billion. Until now, Quest acquisitions were already a big number of players, including: VKernel (November 2011) Vizioncore (December 2008) Curious that Dell list only (for example) this advantages in the acquisition: The Quest One Identity and Access Management solution family adds to Dell’s very strong set of security assets with SonicWALL and Secureworks, creating a comprehensive set of security solutions to address important customer needs. Quest’s Performance […]

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vCenter Operations Management – Installation without a DRS cluster

28 June 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 is a powerful tool for monitor a vSphere environment. But, as writtent in the previous post, the software is distribuited using a vApp (with two VMs) that means the you need DRS if you deploy it on a VMware Cluster. Note that if you deploy it on a standalone ESXi host it does not require DRS. So how deploy this vApp with a vSphere edition lower than the Enterprise edition?

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vCenter Operations Management – Installation

27 June 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe core of vCenter Operations Management is a vApp with two VMs: the UI VM with the user interfaces and some data the analytic VM that is basically the data collect Both must stay in the same network and on the same cluster. Really curios the choice of the OpenVPN to handle communications between the VM… Maybe there is some future plan to build a multi-tenant solution? Or simple a single UI with multiple collectors? The installation is quite simple and is basically a OVF deployment. For more info see: Official deployment docs Using vCenter […]

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vCenter Operations Management – Introduction

26 June 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe vCenter Operations Management Suite is the product designed from VMware to monitor and manage a vSphere infrastructure (but not only). Similar as other VMware products there are several editions (for a detailed overview see the comparison page):

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Symantec Backup Exec – Issue in status update

25 June 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome months ago I’ve wrote about a possible Storage vMotion issue with Symantec Backup Exec. Recently there were some cases where vCenter Server progress status is not correctly updated for a Backup Exec 2012 job (for example it remains fixed to 5% for some days). This support page descrive a possible workaround solution: vCenter progress status is not updated after a job is canceled: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH180911

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VMware View 5.1 upgrade path

22 June 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLink collection of the precendent posts: VMware View 5.1 upgrade path – Check-list VMware View 5.1 upgrade path – Steps VMware View 5.1 upgrade path – Notes For previous upgrade paths see also: VMware View 5.0.1 upgrade path Upgrade path to vSphere 5 – The View 5 part

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