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Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 vs. VMware vSphere 6.7

31 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 10 minutesNow that both Microsoft and VMware have officially announced the new released of their virtualization products it’s possible to make some kind of comparison between Hyper-V available on Windows Server 2019 and vSphere 6.7 (like I’ve done some years ago with the Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 vs. VMware vSphere 6.5 article). Comparing two different product is not so easy, also if they are released closed one each other (at least in the same year). You need to found some homogenous aspects to make the comparison, at least at the technical level (but as written, it’s not so […]

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What are VMware Specialist badges?

30 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware certification paths are quite clear with well defined technology paths (DCV, EUC, NV, Cloud) and different levels (VCP, VCAP, VCDX). All certifications require at least one proctored exam (some may require two different exams). The names of all exams and certifications will change using a “year” notation, but the concept remain the same. But there are also other type of exam, non proctored and just on-line version. One example are the Foundation exams.

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IBM acquista Red Hat

29 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutesLa notizia delle ultime ore è veramente grossa: IBM è in procinto di acquistare Red Hat per 34 miliardi di dollari ($190 per share in cash). La chiusura dell’operazione è prevista per la seconda metà del 2019. Partner da oltre 17 anni, IBM e Red Hat hanno gettato le basi delle community aperte che supportano soluzioni IT innovative e fornito infrastrutture IT che consentono alle aziende di migrare da architetture limitate a datacenter moderni. Questa operazione è una delle più grandi acquisizione in ambito software di sempre ed acquisisce ancora più valore considerando che Red […]

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ESXi Quick Boot on Dell PowerEdge Server

27 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 3 minutesQuick Boot is a vSphere feature that speeds up the upgrade process of an ESXi server.  A regular reboot involves a full power cycle that requires firmware and device initialization.  Quick Boot optimizes the reboot path to avoid this, saving considerable time from the upgrade process. Quick Boot of an ESXi host is a setting that allows VMWare Update Manager (VUM) to optimize the remediation time of hosts that undergo patch and upgrade operations. If the Quick Boot feature is enabled, Update Manager skips the hardware reboot (the BIOS or UEFI firmware reboot). As a result, the […]

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Using Spinbackup to protect Office365 in the cloud

26 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 6 minutesFound a proper way to protect your public cloud services and your data in a public cloud is becoming more and more important, to achieve a desired retention limit, but also to have more control on the data and the restorability of them. One interesting case is the messaging and collaboration services, like Office365 and G Suite.

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Xen Project celebra 15 anni di storia

25 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDi recente, durante il VMworld US 2018, VMware ha celebrato i suoi 20 anni di storia che hanno segnato una rivoluzione nel mondo dell’IT, grazie alla virtualizzazione per ambienti x86. Ma in realtà esiste un’altra soluzione di virtualizzazione su x86 che anch’essa ha tanta storia e che questo mese compie i suoi 15 anni: Xen Project, con il supporto a guest Linux 2.4.22. Nel lontano ottobre 2003, Ian Pratt (il fondatore del Xen Project) annuncia la prima release stabile del Xen virtual machine monitor per x86!

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Veeam Backup VDDK async operation error 14009

24 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome days ago I’ve got a strange error during the backup job of a vSphere 6.7 (not Update 1) environment with latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication. The job was starting correctly, VMs have been discoverted, but when the backup start to copy the VMDK the job failed with a “VDDK async operation error 14009” message.

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