Browsing Posts published in Agosto, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesSono calate le luci dell’edizione americana del VMworld 2017 ed è finalmente possibile trarne alcune conclusioni finali. Ci sono state novità rilevanti rispetto all’anno scorso? Ovviamente le novità ci sono ma vediamo di capire quanto siano o meno importanti. Anche questa volta Michael Dell era presente, durante la prima keynote del secondo giorno), fianco a fianco a Pat Gelsinger a dimostrazione che Dell Technologies è lì… una figura forse più ingombrante di quanto fosse EMC (quando era proprietaria di VMware), ma anche a rassicurare che VMware ha ancora la sua autonomia.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the beta period, Nakivo is announcing the GA release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.2 with some interesting new features. The new v7.2 comes with the following new features:

Reading Time: 2 minutesActually there are two different platform where you can run the vCenter Server components (including the PSC): Windows (both physical or virtual) or Linux (only with the vCSA, based on PhotonOS). Initially there was only a Windows version, then the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) was first introduced with the release of vSphere 5.0 and has since evolved to become the definitive deployment model for vCenter Server. Starting with vSphere 6.5 the vCSA has become the first choice and has raised the level of vCenter with new functionalities (not available on the Windows version).

Reading Time: 3 minutesWestern Digital Corp. and Tegile Systems announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Tegile, a leading provider of flash and persistent-memory storage solutions for enterprise data center applications, will be acquired by Western Digital. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  The acquisition is expected to close the week of Sept. 4, 2017, upon satisfaction of certain closing conditions as set forth in the definitive agreement between the parties.

Reading Time: 3 minutesFinally has been announced (or better, confirmed) that VMware plans to deprecate the Flash-based vSphere Web Client with the next numbered release (not update release) of VMware vSphere. What does it mean, that the HTML5-based vSphere Client will become the only GUI client… finally! After the death of the vSphere Client for Windows, written with C# and with several issues, like the console issues with Windows 10, but also with several inconsistency with the others clients, now it’s the turn of the Flash based client.

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne propertiers of VMware (standard) virtual switches was the number of ports per switch. A parameter (120 was the default in ESXi 5.x) that define how many virtual NIC and/or vmkernel interfaces you can connect to the virtual switch portgroups. This parameter was static and any changes require a host reboot. But starting with vSphere 5.5 (see KB 2064511) this parameter has become “elastic”.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUn anno fa, VMware ha avviato dei nuovi (sotto)programmi vExpert su differenti tecnologie specifiche. Uno di questi è il vExpert vSAN e ho avuto la fortuna di far parte della prima lista di vExpert VSAN 2016. Ora la lista dei vExperts vSAN è stata aggiornata al 2017. The program is build upon the vExpert program. To apply you must be a current vExpert as well as evangelizing VMware Virtual SAN. There will be an application once per year for each of the sub-programs.

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