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Other interesting new features of Windows Server 2016

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The Microsoft Ignite event was a good opportunity to add more informations and also features at the upcoming new generation of Windows, including the next Windows Server (now officially called Windows Server 2016). Also a new Technical Preview is now available for the download (go on the TechNet page).

I’ve already talk about the main news in the previous post Some interesting new features of Windows Server Next. But with the Technical Preview 2 there are more features as described in this post: What’s new in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2.

Note that this list may be not complete yet… some features remain under NDA other may be removed. We have to wait the the RC of the the final product release.

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Free VMworld 2015 conference pass opportunities

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You want to go to VMworld 2015 US or Europe, but you don’t have the budget for the conference pass and/or the travel expenses?

Then try your luck with one of the existing contents. Some have already expired, but other are still open. There are some opportunity to win a VMworld 2015 pass and/or travel expenses.

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June 2015 IT events

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Interesting European IT events:

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VMware vCloud Air – First impression

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VMware vCloud Air is the public cloud offer by VMware (formally known as vCloud Hybrid Service) built on the foundation of vSphere and compatible with your on-premises VMware’s based data center. Actually it included several different services: infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service.

For the IaaS services there are: Dedicated Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand. For the availability services there are: Disaster Recovery and Data Protection.

I’m spending some time by testing the Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand service, with a limited time $500 service credit offer. If you are also interested there is a promotion to get $300 in service credit for your first 90 days. The limit (as also in my case) is that this will permit only to test the IaaS service and not the others.

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VMware ESXi – Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’

27 May 2015
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After an upgrade to VMware vSphere 5.5 on a Dell PowerEdge R710, I’ve got strange occasion issues, where the hosts got completly disconnected from vCenter (with the ESXi/ESX host’s status as Not Responding or Disconnected in vCenter Server) and there was no way to reconnect, also after restarting the management services.

Locking in the ESXi console those kind of errors where notable: Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’.

The only temporally solution was power-off the VMs and restart the host. But the issue can randomly came back.

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VMware ESXi 6.0 partitions layout

26 May 2015
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In previous posts (see ESXi – Partitions layout of system disk and ESXi – More on partitions) I’ve described how are handles the partitions table on the destination installation media of ESXi 5.x (both in the case of a hard disk or a SD/USB disk).

With the new ESXi 6.0 the partition tables is similar in the case of a 1 or 2 GB destination device (like a previous SD media), but has some changes in the case of larger devices.

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#DFD1 More about data or storage?

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Some days ago I was invited to as a delegate at the first edition of Data Field Day (#DFD1) event, scheduled in May 13–15, 2015 in California (Silicon Valley and San Francisco).

Data Field Day event purpose was to cover different topics from others Technical Field Day events: from big data to analytics to hyperscale architecture and cloud security, and all waves of innovations that are transforming the IT. A new format for some growing trends, including micro-services, mobile and the Internet-connected world.

But if you have seens some of the presentation video you may have some doubts if it was more a data (at high level) related event or a storage event (for some aspects it was also a Storage Field Day extra #SFDx).

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