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#VFD3 – Coho Data bring a cool solution in the storage arena

6 March 2014
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VFD-LogoDuring the second day of the third edition of Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3) one of the company that we (as delegates) met was Coho Data that is a (new) cool company in the big storage arena. Their beginnings as Convergent.io with a specific goal of shifting the way that storage is built and managed. This session also match the announcement of the General Availability (GA) of their Web-Scale Storage Appliance for the Enterprise.

Formally they are a software company, but the solution is a storage appliance already packet with both the hardware part and the software part (there are different reasons for this choice, ma mainly for simplify the HCL and have predictable performance in their scaling approach). The entire architecture is well described in their web site or in the #VFD3 video.

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#VFD3 – Ready for the Virtualization Field Day 3

5 March 2014
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Only few hours left until the third edition of the Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3), scheduled on March 5-7 in Silicon Valley (California). As written, for the first time I’ll be a delegate and I’m very excited and curios about this type of events. Also the Tech Field Day sessions are often streamed live, and recordings will be available after the event and could become available also for non delegates. In most cases they become a must to understand some technologies (see this post on why you need to be watching Tech Field Day).

VFD-LogoVirtualization Field Day is one type of the Technical Field Day 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. Virtualization Field Day (VFD) focuses on server and desktop virtualization and management technologies and will be really interesting be part of this event and this group of people.

This event will be a good opportunity to know better some vendors and their products. But also to meet other people and share experience and impressions: delegate list has several well know names (Marco Broeken, Alastair Cooke, David M Davis, James Green, Scott D. Lowe, Paul Meehan, Eric Shanks, Rick Schlander, Jeff Wilson, Eric Wright). continue reading…

Events

VMUG.IT – User Conference 2014

3 March 2014
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After the great success of the first Italian VMUG User Conference, there will be the second edition on May 7 2014 still in Milan.

A VMUG User Conference is not your regular VMUG meeting, it’s a full blown conference, with separate tracks and prominent guest speakers. A good opportunity to learn more, share experiences, and make networking.

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March 2014 IT events

1 March 2014
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Interesting European IT events:

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VMware Tools unattended upgrade

27 February 2014
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Starting with vSphere 5.1 the VMware Tools upgrade procedure does not require a reboot, but is not always true… for example the vCenter Server or VM with database servers usually imply a reboot (and same happen if you have a version upgrade, like from vSphere 5.1 to 5.5).

Anyway, when VMware Tools are installed and managed (so not the 3rd part of them, used in some virtual appliance), you can use automatic upgrade, that may imply or not (depending on the previous note) a reboot of the Windows guests.

Automatic upgrade could be manually (launched by the operator) or orchestrated with VMware Update Manager (VUM) and works both for Windows and Linux guests (initially was only for Windows).

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Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) Course

26 February 2014
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VMCEVeeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) certification is a way to demonstrate that an engineer possesses the necessary level of expertise to correctly architect, implement and configure Veeam Software Solutions.

It’s a new certification announced by Veeam some month ago in order to bring a technical certification level in the existing partner’s related certifications (sales and technical pre-sales), similar at the (initial) certifications in the VMware partners program. It will also become mandatory for Veeam’s partners.

Note that each VMCE is related to a major version of Veeam products.

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VMware Horizon View 5.3 update path

25 February 2014
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Upgrade steps to VMware Horizon View 5.3 are quite the same of the upgrade to 5.2 and also their behavior and order remain the same:

  • Check-list for HCL and also software compatibility (remember to verify also the version of VMware vSphere)
  • Connection servers (included View Manager, Secure Servers and Transfer Servers): remember that for View Secure Servers this is almost a full reinstallation (so pairing must be done from scratch)
  • Composer Server: this must still be a Windows Server (could be vCenter Server, if Windows, or an external server)… remember to keep the existing certificate and DSN.
  • View Agent (and maybe before it the VMware Tools)
  • View Client

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