VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
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In ESXi the partitions schema is automatically defined by the installation...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with th...
VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solu...
Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be pro...
Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server insta...
The legacy C# vSphere Client for Windows is no more available for vSphere 6...
Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade...
The Veeam Managed Hardened Repository is a bootable ISO based on Rocky Linu...
Reading Time: 3 minutesVembu is a player in the backup and data protection world, maybe not (yet) well-know, but for sure not new at all and with a complete suite that cover the physical world, the virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and also some public cloud SaaS solutions. Now there are some important news in the licensing options.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO has just released the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication: the new version 7.3 is now much friendly with enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, when they are used as a backup target. There is a new special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesStarting with vSphere 6.5 you have some limitations with OVF format. For example you cannot export in OVA format anymore. Note that you can still import in OVF or OVA. But you may have also some issues in OVF import.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft has announced the preview of VMware virtualization on Azure, a bare-metal solution that runs the full VMware stack on Azure hardware, co-located with other Azure services. General availability is expected in the coming year. This new service will be delivered in partnership with premier VMware-certified partners, and not directly with VMware (like, for example, VMware Cloud on AWS).
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware has recently released the new verion of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 3.6 that adds key capabilities that enhance network and security visibility in customers’ SDDC and AWS environments, and that enable customers to confidently deploy, manage and scale their VMware NSX deployments. VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security and helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. Also it can accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinally, one year after Broadcom announced the intention acquire Brocade the deal is completed: Broadcom Limited announced that it has completed its acquisition of Brocade. With the close of this transaction, Brocade’s storage area networking (SAN) business is now a highly strategic part of Broadcom’s enterprise storage portfolio. This is also an important milestone toward Broadcom completing the proposed divestiture of Brocade’s Ruckus Wired (ICX) and Wireless business to ARRIS International PLC (“ARRIS”). ARRIS has stated that it expects to close its acquisition once final regulatory approvals are complete.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the server virtualization area the main type 1 (or bare-metal) hypervisors are: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen and KVM. For the public cloud IaaS solutions the most used are Xen (AWS use a custom version) and Hyper-V (in Azure). For the on-prem infrastructure, ESXi is the most used, followed by Hyper-V and KVM. Both Xen and KVM are just a family, because each Linux distribution have it’s own version those hypervisors. If we speak about XenServer we are looking at the Citrix version of Xen (Citrix has bought the commercial version of Xen several […]
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