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SQL issues in vCenter 6.0 upgrade

14 August 2015
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If you are planning an in-place upgrade of a vCenter Server (the Windows installable version) you have to read carefully the vSphere Upgrade Center resources to avoid possible issues.

Of course you can choose to install a new vCenter Server instance a move all to the new one. Maybe could be the right moment to switch to the vCenter Server Appliance (there is also a Flings to move your vCenter Windows data to a VCSA instance). But sometimes it’s not possible and should be preferable an in-place upgrade.

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Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure

13 August 2015
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Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure has been officially released, after a few months beta period,  while still remaining absolutely free.

If you are looking for a simple way to transport data into and from Windows VMs running in the public clouds, this tool is the way to go!

There are different tools, included upload functions in the web console, but can be nice have a simple “explorer” to copy your data (in both directorions). This tool is designed to simplify those activities.

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Nutanix Acropolis is now Citrix Ready

12 August 2015
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During the first .NEXT Conference, Nutanix has announced its next-generation Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) and their Acropolis hypervisor (based on KVM). Most important Acropolis Hypervisor was validated for Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program, that mean compatibility and support for all Microsoft workloads that can run in a certified virtual environment!

Now Nutanix has announced it is working with Citrix to drive down the costs and infrastructure complexity of deploying new app and desktop virtualization environments. In addition, Citrix is supporting the complete Nutanix Acropolis solution, which is now verified as Citrix Ready.

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Snapshot “issue” in VMware vSphere 6.0

10 August 2015
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If you have installed (or upgraded to) VMware vSphere 6.0 and you still use the old legacy vSphere client you may have some false positives about VM snapshots.

All VMs seems to have some snapshots, also if they don’t (and using consolidate does not fix it, because there aren’t snapshots to be fixed). But this apper only with the Windows vSphere Client:

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Book review: VMware vSphere Design Essentials

7 August 2015
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VMware vSphere design is something important for VMware beginner, VMware engineer, VMware SME, or VMware architect. It’s not only related to know well the technologies, but understand how use it in the right way (in the right cases).

VMware vSphere Design Essentials is a short book (only 176 pages), but with a good approach for design an IT environment, particularly a VMware vSphere based.

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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2015

6 August 2015
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TFD-LogoTech(nical) Field Day are well know events, organized by Stephen Foskett and his team, with the purpose of bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format.

There are different Tech Field Day events by topic (Storage, Virtualization, Networking, Wireless and, next year, also Data), but also some special events live from other IT events: Tech Field Day Extra and Tech Field Day Live. And although not a Tech Field Day event, the same staff has occasionally organized a live Symposium event to showcase a particular area of enterprise IT technology.

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Diablo Technologies is shaking up the flash market, again

5 August 2015
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Note: on January 2019, Rambus acquired memory technology assets of Diablo Technologies and Diablo and the company is now closed.

Diablo Technologies is a company founded in 2003 that have revolutionize the flash market with their Memory Channel Storage (MCS) solution: a very high performance host flash solution that fit in DIMMs connectors instead to be plugged to PCIe or SAS connectors.

An interesting idea, supported by several vendors that make flash more closest to the CPU, but still flash seens as block devices as other SSD.

Now Diablo Technologies is announcing the launch of Memory1™, the first all-flash server system memory technology that rewrites the rules of datacenter performance and economics the the flash roles on host side.

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