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On May 26, 2022, AMD announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pensando Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion.

The Pensando team will join the AMD Data Center Solutions Group, led by AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager Forrest Norrod.

Pensando’s distributed services platform will expand AMD’s data center product portfolio with a high-performance Data Processing Unit (DPU) and software stack that are already deployed at scale across cloud and enterprise customers including Goldman Sachs, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 was announced at Red Hat Summit on May 10, 2022, and has officially released on May 17, 2022.

This release is designed to meet the needs of the hybrid cloud environment, and is ready for you to develop and deploy from the edge to the cloud. It can run your code efficiently whether deployed on physical infrastructure, in a virtual machine, or in containers built from Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBIs).

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DellEMC PowerStore is the new product line that will replace the old Equallogic/SC/VNX/Unity series. It’s a nice product with a mix of the features of all those prevuious products and a new modern design both in the hardware and the software parts.

From VMware vSphere point of view it can be access as a block level storage with iSCSI and/or FC protocols, but it has also a native vVols implementation and, for example, in the PowerStoreX model it’s the default way to access at the storage resources.

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Easy question, but much more complicated answer.

If you go to https://vmware.com/downloads you can found a strange combo of versions:

ESXi it’s still at 7.0U2a, but vCenter Server it’s at 7.0U3a. So… where are the ESXi 7.0.3 versions?
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Come ben tutti sappiamo questi ultimi 18 mesi sono stati “diversamente normali” e tanti sono stati gli impatti nel nostro vivere quotidiano.

Per quanto riguarda il VMUG.IT il risultato più evidente di questa pandemia è stata la cancellazione degli eventi in presenza, come del resto è capitato per ogni altro evento (vedere Le conferenze al tempo del COVID-19).

Ma finalmente si riprende sul serio (l’anno scorso vi è stato solo l’evento virtuale)… anche se in forma “ibrida”.

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Who is CoreView

CoreView is an Italian company, founded by Ivan Fioravanti and David Mascarella in Milan in 2014, that helps to manage the complexities of Microsoft Office 365. Now it’s a big company with more than 100 team members and that idea has grown to serve over 8 million user mailboxes in more than 100 countries around the globe.

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The file-level backup feature introduced in vCSA 6.5 is very powerfull and schedulable (starting with vCSA 6.7) because sometimes the image-level backup may not provide the proper integrity if you have corrupted files inside the VM.

Also with vSphere 7.0 is possible monitoring the status of the file-level backup directly from vSphere Client and this is quite usefull to have this information direct visible from the UI:

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