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Reading Time: 4 minutesDurante il recente Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld EU 2016 (dove sono stato invitato come delegato) ho avuto modo di (re-)incontrare Nimble Storage. Rich Fenton (UK&I Systems Engineering Manager) e Nick Dyer (Senior Systems Engineer) ci hanno fornito un’ottima overview della loro tecnologia, incluse alcune interessanti novità sui prodotti.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the new vSphere 6.5 the legacy Windows vSphere Client is finally dead! Was supposed also during the beta of vSphere 6.0, but in the RC a new C# client has appear to avoid this kind of transition. But also to avoid the new limits dictated by the vSphere Web Client, like the huge depency from Acrobat Flash! With version 6.5 there are some interesting changes in the clients for VMware vSphere:

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new release of VMware vSphere 6.5 will finally add some interesting news of the vCenter Server. Not only the virtual appliance (Linux based) version is not fully featured (was almost in version 6.0, but still with the big limit of VMware Update Manager available only for Windows), but now has some features only for this version and the Windows one become the limited version. First sign was the Fling for the migration from a vCenter edition to the VCSA: the official Windows vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool which is part […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Virtual SAN has grow quite fast in the last year and now has more than 5000 customers (in more than 100 countries) and several features comparable with other storage solutions. In few years VSAN has become an interesting solution: VSAN 5.5: First version of the product VSAN 6.0 (march 2015): add All Flash Array (AFA), 64 nodes as cluster size and more than 2x Hybrid Speed VSAN 6.1 (September 2015): add stretched cluster and 2-nodes ROBO scenarios VSAN 6.2 (March 2016): add deduplication and compression (only for AFA) and quality of service VSAN 6.5 […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesNakivo has announced that it has released NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6.2. The new version provides full support for paid AWS EC2 instances, sold through AWS Marketplace. NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6.2 provides a simple, reliable, and affordable way to protect and recover AWS EC2 instances:

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware and Amazon have announced a strategic partnership that brings those two companies together to deliver a vSphere-based cloud service running on AWS. This service will make it easier for customers to run any application, using a set of familiar software and tools, in a consistent hybrid cloud environment. Currently in Technology Preview, VMware Cloud on AWS, will bring VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS cloud, and will enable customers to run any application across vSphere-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments. It will be operated, managed and sold by VMware […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesDopo ben 5 technical preview e dopo averlo finalmente annunciato qualche settimana fa, Windows Server 2016 è ufficialmente in General Availability (GA). Per maggiori informazioni vedere la Ultimate Guide to Windows Server 2016 lo l’elenco delle novità di questo SO. Va anche ricordato il cambio nella licenza: non solo sono state reintrodotte funzionalità solo nella versione Datacenter, ma ora si licenziano anche i core (non più semplicemente i socket). Di conseguenza hardware monoprocessore e con tanti core possono diventare interessanti in alcuni progetti (fintanto che altri software non adeguino anche loro il modello di licensing […]

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