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Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are approching an important milestore: January 14, 2020 sets the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. Just four years ago was the turn of Windows Server 2003 (End of the extended support for Windows Server 2003 family). End of support means the end of regular security updates, potentially leaving you vulnerable to security and compliance issues.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCon un po’ di ritardo rispetto agli anni scorsi, finalmente è disponibile la VMware vExpert 2019 application form! Le candidature per il programma vExpert 2019 sono ora aperte. Le domande attraverso l’apposita form saranno accettate fino al 8 febbraio 2019 alle ore 24.00 PDT (9:00 ora italiana). L’annuncio dei vExpert 2019 è previsto per il 28 febbraio 2019.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSystem virtualization goes to a great deal to offer this isolation, especially on the hypervisor layer where virtual machines of different actors can potentially run on the same hardware. So a strong isolation of is paramount importance. How a VM is really isolated? Enough… but there is a gap between the theory and the reallity. Of course, the virtual networking expose all kind of network attacs from and to the guest, but there are several solutions (like, for example, NSX) to try to minimize this kind of risks. But the network is needed, because a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the new feature of VMware vSphere 6.7 is the full support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 devices both at host and VM level. But when you are using a TPM 2.0 device on an ESXi host, the host might fail to pass the attestation phase.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn August 2018, VMware has officially announced that their certifications will change the names with something different and no more related to the product version. New certification names will be identified by the year they are earned. Potentially this will make easier to immediately identify how current a certification is.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStarting with vSphere 5.1, the VMware Tools update procedure was no more requiring a Windows VM reboot to finalize the process (see also VMware Tools unattended upgrade). But there were some cases where a reboot was still necessary (see VMware Tools 5.1 upgrade may restart your Windows VM).
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrimary Data was a US startup that developed intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management across on-premises IT infrastructure and into the cloud. Basically an abstraction layer over the primary storage using with Data Mobility through Data Virtualization (somehow like Nicira made with network). I’ve wrote about this company and its interesting solution in two different posts (when company exit from stealth and one year later).
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