Reading Time: 2 minutesRavello ’s Smart Labs have self-contained capsules to run your VMware/KVM development, test, training and demo environments in the cloud without migration. One unique feature of Ravello platform is that you can simple run on AWS or Google Cloud, without any changes, VMware vSphere workload or also ESXi nested!
It’s very nice for testing or lab purpose, where you don’t need anymore of local resources and you can have the speed and the elasticy of the cloud.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeam has realesed the Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2b (see KB 2024) that add several performance improvements in the update 2 of the product.
Note that Veeam Backup & Replication checks for updates automatically once a week (unless you have disabled that). This means that everyone who had not updated yet should get a notification within the next 10 days or so.
B&R 8.0 Update 2a was officially released at the begin of June, but there where a new critical issue in VDDK 6.0 that forced Veeam to rebuild the update code again, now as Update 2b, adding a workaround for a single specif issue:
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe 2014 spring (EMEA) edition of E2EVC is now over and it’s time to archive it and take some considerations.
E2EVC Virtualization Conference is an independent, non-commercial, virtualization community event build from experts to experts.
This edition was from Fri 12 to Sun 14th June 2015 in in Novotel Berlin Mitte Hotel, Fischerinsel 12, 10179, Berlin, Germany.
This was my third E2EVC event (I’ve attend at the E2EVC XX Rome and E2EVC 2014 Brussels) and I can confirm the reason to attend at this kind of event (see E2EVC 2014 Brussels: Why attend).
Reading Time: 2 minutesUntil now Microsoft simple does not support nested virtualization in its Hyper-V product. Nothing wrong with it, but it’s a case where not supported means also that it simple does not work at all.
So the only way to test Hyper-V (or other hypervisor) in a lab with a single physical system (server or client) was using other hypervisors (VMware ESXi, Workstation, or also Paralles or others). Or using this trick (useful also with the new hardware requirement of the next Hyper-V) but with the big limit where the VMs cannot be powered on at all.
Now with the next Windows Server release (Windows Server 2016) there will be some changes. According to a Build Conference session (Windows Containers: What, Why and How), seems that Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 will support nested Virtualization.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I’ve got a strange issue on ESXi 6.0: after an host reboot the ESXi hosts display a false positive warning:
Deprecated VMFS volume(s) found on the host. Please consider upgrading volume(s) to the latest version
Starting with vSphere 6.0 the VMFS3 version is now deprecated, but in my case all block based datastores were already at VMFS version 5!
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs written in a previous post, in those days I’ve attend at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference where several big announces have been revealed during the keynotes.
First to all was a strength demonstration of Nutanix: 963 attendees with 7 no shows, more than 3200 registration for the Community Edition, from 0 to 1100 employees in 5 years, lot of announces in this conference, lot (really a lot) sponsors are great numbers and results.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs written in a previous post, during this days I’m attending at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference where several big announces have been revealed during the first keynote.
Really a lot, that I will need more to fix and digest them. Most of them are listed in the press release.
New product, new software, an integrated scale out file server, … make it simple and make it invisible were the main themes for the new infrastructures.
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