Browsing Posts published in Ottobre, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes Each big vendor has some kind of “community award” for individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of the specific vendor’s users over the past year. Those kind of “technologies experts” could be book authors, bloggers (in most cases), leaders in some communities, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These people have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of the specific vendor’s technologies to their colleagues and to the community.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Durante il recente Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld EU 2016 (dove sono stato invitato come delegato) ho avuto modo di (re-)incontrare Nimble Storage. Rich Fenton (UK&I Systems Engineering Manager) e Nick Dyer (Senior Systems Engineer) ci hanno fornito un’ottima overview della loro tecnologia, incluse alcune interessanti novità sui prodotti.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The bug has existed since around 2.6.22 (released in 2007) and was fixed on Oct 18, 2016. “A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.” (RH)

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the new vSphere 6.5 the legacy Windows vSphere Client is finally dead! Was supposed also during the beta of vSphere 6.0, but in the RC a new C# client has appear to avoid this kind of transition. But also to avoid the new limits dictated by the vSphere Web Client, like the huge depency from Acrobat Flash! With version 6.5 there are some interesting changes in the clients for VMware vSphere:

Reading Time: 3 minutes The new release of VMware vSphere 6.5 will finally add some interesting news of the vCenter Server. Not only the virtual appliance (Linux based) version is not fully featured (was almost in version 6.0, but still with the big limit of VMware Update Manager available only for Windows), but now has some features only for this version and the Windows one become the limited version. First sign was the Fling for the migration from a vCenter edition to the VCSA: the official Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool which is part […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware Virtual SAN has grow quite fast in the last year and now has more than 5000 customers (in more than 100 countries) and several features comparable with other storage solutions. In few years VSAN has become an interesting solution: VSAN 5.5: First version of the product VSAN 6.0 (march 2015): add All Flash Array (AFA), 64 nodes as cluster size and more than 2x Hybrid Speed VSAN 6.1 (September 2015): add stretched cluster and 2-nodes ROBO scenarios VSAN 6.2 (March 2016): add deduplication and compression (only for AFA) and quality of service VSAN 6.5 […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Oggi inizia ufficialmente il VMworld EU 2016, con la giornata dedicata ai vari partner (considerando anche la ricollazione dell’evento globale Partner Exchange). Come ci dovremo aspettare da questo VMworld? Qualche annuncio c’è già stato, in particolare l’annuncio relativo alla partnership con Amazon per l’offerta di public cloud. Ma durante l’evento ci dovremo aspettare (finalmente dopo 3 edizioni di VMworld, contanndo sia quelle americane che quelle europee) qualche novità sulla nuova versione di VMware vSphere. Inevitabilmente ci saranno maggiori informazioni (rispetto a quelle già annunciate all’edizione americana) e forse anche nuovi annunci su tutta la parte […]

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