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A partire da VMware vSphere 6.0, la nuova componente del vCenter chiamata PSC (Platform Service Controller) comprende oltre alla parte di SSO (introdotta per la prima volta in vSphere 5.1) anche alcune funzionalità, tra le quali una vera e propria CA (Certification Authority) per la gestione automatica dei gestificati, che da self-signed, passano ad essere gestiti tramite la CA della PSC (purtroppo questo non vale per tutti i prodotti VMware, o almeno non ancora).

Questo semplifica di molto la gestione dei certificati, con funzonalità quali l’aggiornamento automatico, la sostituzione di quelli self-signed tramite auto-enrollment, il tutto nell’ottica di rendere più sicure le comunicazioni tra i vari elementi di vSphere.

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RVtools is a great tools to inventory a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere, with or without vCenter Server (works great also on standalone ESXi hosts).

RVTools supports ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX 5.0, VirtualCenter 5.5, ESX 5.5, VirtualCenter 6.0, ESX 6.0, VirtualCenter 6.5 and ESX 6.5, so all you can have (also legacy versions) in a datacenter. And it’s totally free.

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Sono calate le luci dell’edizione americana del VMworld 2017 ed è finalmente possibile trarne alcune conclusioni finali. Ci sono state novità rilevanti rispetto all’anno scorso? Ovviamente le novità ci sono ma vediamo di capire quanto siano o meno importanti.

Anche questa volta Michael Dell era presente, durante la prima keynote del secondo giorno), fianco a fianco a Pat Gelsinger a dimostrazione che Dell Technologies è lì… una figura forse più ingombrante di quanto fosse EMC (quando era proprietaria di VMware), ma anche a rassicurare che VMware ha ancora la sua autonomia.

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After the beta period, Nakivo is announcing the GA release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.2 with some interesting new features.

The new v7.2 comes with the following new features:

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Actually there are two different platform where you can run the vCenter Server components (including the PSC): Windows (both physical or virtual) or Linux (only with the vCSA, based on PhotonOS). Initially there was only a Windows version, then the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) was first introduced with the release of vSphere 5.0 and has since evolved to become the definitive deployment model for vCenter Server.

Starting with vSphere 6.5 the vCSA has become the first choice and has raised the level of vCenter with new functionalities (not available on the Windows version).

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Western Digital Corp. and Tegile Systems announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Tegile, a leading provider of flash and persistent-memory storage solutions for enterprise data center applications, will be acquired by Western Digital.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  The acquisition is expected to close the week of Sept. 4, 2017, upon satisfaction of certain closing conditions as set forth in the definitive agreement between the parties.

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Finally has been announced (or better, confirmed) that VMware plans to deprecate the Flash-based vSphere Web Client with the next numbered release (not update release) of VMware vSphere. What does it mean, that the HTML5-based vSphere Client will become the only GUI client… finally!

After the death of the vSphere Client for Windows, written with C# and with several issues, like the console issues with Windows 10, but also with several inconsistency with the others clients, now it’s the turn of the Flash based client.

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