Browsing Posts published in Luglio, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesTintri has laid off 80 per cent of its staff, including its top sales bod, leaving just 40 to 50 staff behind, however it still expects to run out of cash on June 30. And there are a lot of rumors with impending news of bankruptcy. That’s not good at, considering the history of the company and the quality of their products.

Reading Time: 4 minutesManaging the lifecycle of a complete software stack it’s something potentially complex because to the interdependence between the different layers, the order of the update or upgrade and the multiple software piecies (but also potentially some firmware/driver updates). For VMware vSphere there is VUM that can simplify ESXi lifecycle, but for example cannot manage the vCenter/PSC upgrade/update process. For VMware vSAN, VUM has been improved to consider the proper flow of the update process.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Horizon Client communicates with the View server, which acts as a broker between the client device and remote desktops and published applications. You enter credentials into Horizon Client, the server authenticates your credentials, and then the server finds the remote desktops and published applications that you are entitled to use. Also if you can use VMware Blast to access your virtual desktop or published applications, a client is usually preferrable to have full features.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe historycal technical certification from Nutanix was the Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) certification: a free online exam to all Nutanix customers and partners wwhere training is recommended, but not required before attempting the exam. The exam was quite easy (due also the fact that it’s an online and not proctored exam), so the value of this type of certification was not so high. But was a requirement for Nutanix partners and and plus for a customer because it confirms your (minimal) ability to install, configure, and manage the Nutanix environment.

Reading Time: 3 minutesNutanix has recently released a new version of Acropolis Operating System (AOS): AOS 5.8 is now the latest version. Just few months after Nutanix AOS 5.6. NOTICE: AOS 5.8 is a new AOS Feature Release or Short term Support (STS) Release, that means it isn’t a Long Term Supported (LTS). The support for all feature release version will only be for 6 months after the release date, within which period you will have to upgrade to the next feature release version.

Reading Time: 5 minutesUno dei limiti di VeeamZIP (la versione gratuita di Veeam Backup & Replication) è l’impossibilità di pianificare dei job di backup. A dire il vero c’è anche il limite significativo che ogni VeeamZIP è sempre un backup full, sia lato sorgente che destinazione, ma questo limite potrebbe essere minimale per realtà molto piccole, dove lo spazio in gioco è poco. Per ovviare il limite della pianificazione automatica, da un po’ di tempo è possibile ricorrere a script in PowerShell che automatizzino la creazione di un VeeamZip, usando poi il pianificatore di Windows come strumento di […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 6.7 non era ancora ufficialmente supportato da Veeam Backup & Replication, come pure non lo era vSphere 6.5 Update 2 (a causa del backport dalla versione 6.7). Ma ora Veeam ha rilasciato un nuovo update di  Veeam Backup Replication 9.5 Update 3a che supporta tutte le versioni recenti di VMware:

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