One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, wi...
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The new VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 comes with a long list of deprecated fe...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with th...
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According to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Product Support Notes there ar...
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year there will be only the VMware Explore in USA (again in Las Vegas) and no more an European edition (VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona was the last european edition). But this year there is a big news: VMware Explore on Tour.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOmnissa ONE is the big event from Omnissa and this year will be the second edition (first edition was Omnissa ONE 2024). Omnissa ONE will gain new insights into improving the digital workspace experience for both IT teams and employees. You’ll also have a front row seat to the latest innovations across the Omnissa Platform, including the products you know best, Workspace ONE and Horizon. Omnissa ONE will be also an opportunity to get face time with the experts, network with peers, and explore our partner ecosystem.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 comes with a long list of deprecated features! One of this the VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols) introduces for the first time in vSphere 6.0. They are an integration and management framework to enable external storage to become VM-aware storage. But vVols got some limitations (like replication in the first release, or backup via SAN mode) and a huge problem: not all Virtual Volumes implementation are the same (some storage vendors do it very well, but not all).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, with the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). But now Broadcom has released the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. So, the question is easy… where is the ESXi 9.0 free edition?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Product Support Notes there are several VMware features deprecated! All of deprecated features will be removed in a future vCenter release. And some features has already been removed in version 9.0 because deprecated in previous versions. Deprecation of vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS):
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) was introduced in the vSphere 7 Update 1 release with the idea of creating a decoupled and distributed control plane for clustering services in vSphere. But with VMware vSphere 8.0.3, the vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) will be “migrated” with a new Embedded vSphere Cluster Service model. The entire vSphere Cluster Service (vCLS) is rearchitected to use fewer resources, remove storage footprint, and eliminate issues associated with vCLS deployment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you create a virtual machine or upgrade an existing virtual machine, you use the virtual machine compatibility setting to select the ESXi host versions that the virtual machine can run on. The compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. Virtual hardware includes BIOS and EFI, available virtual PCI slots, the maximum number of CPUs, the maximum memory configuration, and other characteristics. New virtual hardware capabilities are typically released once a year with major or minor releases of vSphere. The new VCF and […]
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