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Reading Time: 2 minutesQuest Software has announced the acquisition of Metalogix, a leading provider of migration, management and security solutions for Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365.
Quest was already strong in other migration tools for Microsoft products (but also for Oracle), but the acquisition of Metalogix strengthens the Quest Microsoft Platform Management solution portfolio by extending capabilities to support SharePoint, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeltdown and Spectre remediations can imply not only performance degradation, but also some management issues. For example in how EVC works as described in VMware KB 52085 (Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation for Branch Target injection).
An ESXi host that is running a patched vSphere hypervisor with updated microcode will see new CPU features that were not previously available. These new features will be exposed to all Virtual Hardware Version 9+ VMs that are powered-on by that host. Because these virtual machines now see additional CPU features, vMotion to an ESXi host lacking the microcode or hypervisor patches applied will be prevented.
The vCenter patches enable vMotion compatibility to be retained within an EVC cluster. In order to maintain this compatibility, the new features are hidden from guests within the cluster until all hosts in the cluster are properly updated. At that time, the cluster will automatically upgrade its capabilities to expose the new features. Unpatched ESXi hosts will no longer be admitted into the EVC cluster.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 6.5 ha raggiunto una buona popolarità e adozione negli ultimi anni. Considerando poi che la versione 5.5 è a fine supporto in quest’anno e che è possibile aggiornarla direttamente alla versione 6.5 (ma non alla versione 6.7) è prevedibile che nei prossimi mesi la sua adozione crescerà ulteriormente.
Ma con l’ultimo aggiornamento vSphere 6.5 to Update 2, VMware ha fatto il backport di alcune funzionalità della versione 6.7 con possibili rischi alla compatibilità. Considerando anche che dalla versione 6.5U2 non è possibile (per ora) aggiornare alla versione 6.7, in tanti potrebbero voler rimanere sulla versione 6.5U1.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOramai dovrebbe essere problema arcinoto ed in teoria risolto a tutti quelli che hanno aggiornato i loro sistemi Windows. Ma la realtà è meno ovvia del previsto e non sempre la logica (i sistemi vanno mantenuti aggiornati) è seguita.
O non sempre è possibile, in virtù di sistemi isolati (o ritenuti tali) che persistono ad esistere dove non viene mai aggiornato nulla, se non magari una volta all’anno.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the last years I hear from several people that the huge VMworld event is becoming less attractive. Several people just say (for different reasons) that they probably will not attent VMworld event… unless finally going anyway…
But it’s VMworld still a valuable event? An unmissable event?
Runecast is a powerful tool to monitoring and check a vSphere environment and recently also for a VSAN environment. But it’s not over, actually there is a beta for the new version (Runecast version: 1.7.6 probably) that can analyze also NSX-V environments and this could be quite cool, considering the potentially complexity of a NSX infrastructure.
I’ve tested the beta on a small lab, just to see how does it work.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new build of Windows 10 have a lot of new security settings and some of them can make cause issues with VMware Workstation (or potentially also other host hypervisors).
One common issue when you try to power on a VM in Workstation and instead you get this error message:
VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible. VMware Workstation can be run after disabling Device/Credential Guard.
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