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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware’s vision of those last years it’s almost clear and it’s all around the three main pillars: SDDC, Hybrid Cloud and EUC.
In order to provide the Software Defined DataCenter, VMware has work a lot on the cloud related aspects, but also for the SDN and SDS technologies to enable a VM policies driven approach. VMware NSX is the clear answer on the SDN part, but what about the SDS part?
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe new VMware vSphere Suite 6.0 brings several changes and new features, but the installation phases remain still similar with the previous versions.
The big changes are in the vCenter deployment type both for the installable and the appliance version and the new VUM client… all the other parts of the installation remain similar with only few notes.
Reading Time: 7 minutesAtlantis USX (Unified Software-defined Storage) is a software-defined storage solution (100% software) that delivers the performance of an all-flash storage array at half the cost of traditional SAN or NAS.
First version was announced one year ago (February 2014) and actually there is the version 2.0 (announced on August 2014) with several interesting features.
The product is quite interesting and is both a storage virtualization layer and also a full SDS storage solution. The first aspect may possible add new features to existing storage, like, for example, (in the next release) add VMware Virtual Volumes support.
Reading Time: 8 minutesDuring the first Italian Tech Field Day Extra (at Cisco Live 2015 in Milan) the company that we met was, of course, Cisco. For an entire day we had different sessions with different Cisco’s people and talk about their different products, but also their different solutions and approaches.
It was a full day (January 26th) from 9:00 to 17:00 with a bunch of interesting information (especially for me, where the networking part is usually the simplest part of my project, considering the medium size of Italian projects and environments).
Reading Time: 8 minutesVeeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) is a technical certification introduced by Veeam to documented proof that an engineer possesses the necessary level of expertise to correctly architect, implement and configure Veeam Software Solutions. If you start from scratch, in order to gain this certification, you basically need to attend a course and pass the related exam (I’ve already described the entire process for the VMCE Certification and also some comments about the VMCE 7 Course).
But VMCE needs a recertification on each new major version of Veeam Backup & Replication and recertification rules are pretty simple: online (and free) what’s new course and the new VMCE exam (for more information see this previous post or see VMCE7 to VMCE8: Upgrade Rules).
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough the official confirmation has not yet arrived via email (same behaviour of last year or two years ago), it seems that (also) this year I was confirmed as a vExpert.
The list has published on the VMTN blog site: vExpert 2015 Announcement (for Q2 2015 see this post).
After the 2014 test (one application every three months), this year the vExpert program as slightly change again with one application every six months… So new people will be announced in the second half of this year.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware vSphere Storage Appliance was a software-based shared storage solution that enables high availability and automation in vSphere without shared storage hardware (for more information see this post). In 2014, VMware has announced the End of Availability of all vSphere Storage Appliance versions, effective April 1, 2014. All support and maintenance for vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 will be unaffected and will continue to follow the Enterprise Infrastructure Support Policy. The End of General Support life date for customers with vSphere Storage Appliance 5.5 remains September 19, 2018.
In a previous post I asked if Could VSAN replace VSA? And in most cases could be true… but what about very small enviroments? With VSA was possible realize a cluster with only two, but VSAN require at least three node.
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