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Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter VMware acquisition, Broadcom has start to change VMware’s licensing tring to normalize and simplify it, but also tring to maximize the possible revenew. This not not so good for all customers. Also some offering has been dismissed, like the Free vSphere Hypervisor or the basic VMware vSphere Essential bundle. And there was a force shift from a perpetual to subscription model.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsually, on one desktop machine you can only use ONE desktop hypervisor solution, because if you try to install more than once, you may have issues (for example in the virtual switch management). In the past, expecially was not possible have both VMware Workstation and Microsoft Hyper-V on the same machine, because Hyper-V works at ring -1 and this makes difficult to let Workstation runs on top.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 8.0.3 introduces several new features and also a new snapshot management. One of the issues of VM snapshots is that people forget to delete them: according to VMware snapshot management recommended practices you shoul NOT keep snapshots for more than 3 days (I suggest to don’t keep them for more than one day, because usually you have backups as other possible restore points).
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas has just finished, but what’s news? Let’s start from some obvius things… first more Broadcom (and less VMware maybe) as you can see from the titles of the different press relases. And seems less attendees (5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBefore the decision of Broadcom to sell the VMware’s EUC Division, the compatibility between (VMware) Horizon and VMware vSphere was simply included in the Product Interoperability Matrix. But now, of course this VMware site is no more updated because does not include recent versions of both products:
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere ships with many metrics and properties. If we take object by object, and document metrics by metrics, it will be both dry and theoretical. You will be disappointed as it does not explain how your real world problems are solved. You’re not in the business of collecting metric. Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok made an impressive book on VMware vSphere Metrics and now is at its 4th edition!
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere upgrade or update you have to check all compatibility aspects. One is related to the backup software that can be critical because you may loose the capability to perform backup and/or restore. Of course this apply also to “minor” update, like vSphere 8.0U3. For Veeam Backup & Replication there is a specific Veeam KB (KB 2443) that provides information about compatibility between VMware vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication. And finally, some weeks after ESXi 8.0.3 become GA, there is an official support for vSphere […]
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