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Maxta news – More cloud management and insights

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Maxta, a storage company that provide hyper-converged solutions, announced MxInsight and MxCloudConnect, confirming a recent trend both in the analytics applied to the storage and also in the cloud based management solutions available as SaaS.

Other vendors (not only in the storage area, see for example Meraki in the network area with a real unique management solution) are moving in one or both of this directions. Of course those aspects are not related to the core technology (for Maxta the hyper-converged storage), but on the services that you can have in order to simplify the IT management.

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Native backup issues in vSphere 6.0

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Compatibility remain one of major reason for wait before a major upgrade, but now several backup products are compatible with vSphere 6.0 (see Backup products and vSphere 6.0 compatibility – Updated). Same for several other 3rd part software.

But in the backup space there are still some issues that may limiting the choice of running (yet) vSphere 6.0 in production environments. As written in VMware vSphere 6.0 – Upgrade or not upgrade post one was related in CBT in ESXi 6.0 that can impact your environment also if your backup program will already support vSphere 6.0: for more information see KB 2114076 (Backing up a virtual machine with Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled fails after upgrading to or installing VMware ESXi 6.0).

I said was because this morning I’ve read in the last Veeam Community Forums Digest that this issue has been fixed.

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My experience with VCP6-DCV delta exam

15 May 2015
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As written in a previous post (VMware certification roadmap v6) there are already several v6 exams (and the VCP level is almost completed, although still with some beta exams for the DCV path). VCP level has also changed (Are you ready for new VMware’s certifications?) with a “foundations exam” common for all paths and then specific VCP exams.

The VCP6-DCV has different upgrade paths, but if you are already a VCP-DCV (not expired) the simple way is just took the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Delta Beta Exam. Those beta exams (for the first time as public beta) run from 13 April 2015 and the period is much longer compared to previous beta… It’s not clear until when, but seems (according to the date that you can schedule on VUE site) that may be closed before the end of May 2015.

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Ignite Data Field Day #DFD1

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As written in a previous post, 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 will cover different topics compared to 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.

An there will be an event inside the event: on Wednesday, May 13th, there will be an Ignite event with industry participants and expert delegates from Tech Field day for an evening of food, drinks, and engaging conversation about All Things Data! continue reading…

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Nutanix announce the Community Edition

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If you know Nutanix, you probably know also the Nutanix Next Community that is the forum and information sharing area for Nutanix customers and partners. But there is also another stuff community related…

The Nutanix CE (Community Edition) is a lighter-weight, free version of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS), which powers the Nutanix Virtual Platform. The Community Edition of NOS is designed for people interested in test driving its main features on their own hardware and infrastructure, but also learn more on Nutanix.

Community Edition allows you to install single-node, three-node, and four-node clusters! Depending on your available hardware, Nutanix recommends a three-node cluster to exercise the features of Community Edition most effectively.

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Big Switch and its Open SDN fabrics vision

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I’ve already talk about Big Switch in some previous posts (see Big Switch Networks has a big announce), now there are other news both in the Big Cloud Fabric (with new version 2.6) and Big Tap Monitoring Fabric (with the new versione 4.5).

The Big Tap product does not need too much explanation: it’s a 1G/10G/40G network visibility fabric that leverages high-performance bare metal Ethernet switches or Dell Open Networking switches to provide pervasive and scalable monitoring of an organization’s network traffic. The new version will add some new features and will support new switches (like the Dell S4048-ON). If you need deep network monitoring and visibility this could be an interesting solution.

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Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0

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Almost two years ago Zerto announce the availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0 with a lot of enterprise-class functions for business continuity and disaster recovery for virtualized infrastructure and cloud for VMware environments and (from October 2014) also for Hyper-V environments.

With the recent announce of Zerto Virtual Replication 4.0 they are now supporting VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and also Amazon AWS.

New features of ZVR 4.0 include:

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