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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome people are looking to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) but they don’t understand all the different terms and how are related to other platform. Considering that VMware is still the leader for the on-prem virtual vinfrastructure, I try to build a table that match VMware terms in Nutanix terms.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on November 11, VMware has announce that VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro are now free for all use cases! VMware Workstation and Fusion are Desktop Hypervisor products used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers for demo, develop, testing and learning purposed. Those products give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn about technology, build and test software, complex systems, browsers, apps, games, and more. And remember that first VMware’s product was VMware Workstation […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesA partire dal 6 maggio 2024 (da ieri quindi), ci sono delle importanti novità nelle certificazioni VMware : un nuovo portale Certification Manager 2.0 (https://cp.certmetrics.com/vmware/en/credentials/status), nuovi badge per le certificazioni, un prezzo standard per gli esami, e la muovo modalità di certificazione diretta tramite esame! Per una volta tanto ci sono notizie positive dopo l’acquisizione da parte di Broadcom e lo tzunami che ha generato negli scorsi mesi!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe VMware vSphere Host Client (or Host UI) was initially released as a fling in 2015, and then included as the default host client GUI interface with vSphere 6.0 Update 2. A web HTML5 interface was needed in order to replace the legacy Windows’s based vSphere Client. And was a good solution, light and fast enough… But after 10 years it becomes old and the user experience is too much different compared to the vSphere Client (HTML5).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe VMware Cloud Foundation team has just announced the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1, the “suite” that include vSphere, NSX, vSAN and Aria products. But this version is also supporting the Initial Availability of the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (as announced at the 2024 GTC AI Conference) in addition to new Solution Licensing, which delivers the first phase of a multi-phase program to deliver the full stack as a single product.
Reading Time: 5 minutesVMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings. Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names. For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines: But which one is used and which could be preferred?
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince version 4.x, VMware vSphere provides native API to perform image level backup of running VMs: VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection (formerly known as VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection or VADP). Those API are based on VMware snapshot to create a readable base VMDK disk that can be easily copied by a compatible backup solution using a full transfer or using incremental transfer with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature.
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