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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…

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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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Installing Dell OMSA 7 on ESXi 5.5

21 February 2014
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Some years ago, I’ve write some posts on how install Dell OpenManage on VMware ESXi. The OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is a Dell tool really useful for a central management or to be integrated in other Dell’s management tools.

There are different options, but basically the most used ways are:

  • Use the Dell ESXi custom image that already include also a version of OMSA (not necessary the latest)
  • Use the command line
  • Use VMware Update Manager

The last option is my preferred option because is really faster and simplest.

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Central management of more vSphere Essential Plus

20 February 2014
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Formally a VMware vSphere Essential Plus (or Essential) suite can only be managed by a vCenter Server Essential (which is in fact a vCenter Foundation limited to only handle Essential or Essential Plus hosts).

The reason is simple: the Essential bundles were born and developed for SMEs as finished packages and not as a way to extend their infrastructure (especially since formally every company could only buy one of these bundles).

But until the vSphere 4.x releases was still possible to manage one or more Essential / Essential Plus clusters with a single vCenter Server Standard (although formally it would not be correct). With version 5.x this is no longer possible.

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FalconStor announce Optimized Backup & Deduplication 8.0

18 February 2014
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FalconStor is a well knowed company in the data protection field. They have interesting appliances to handle the backup to disk (D2D using NAS frontend) or backup to (virtual) tape (using the VTL frontend).

The choice between the two solutions is mainly on the front-end protocol and the existing backup environment: in some case could be better expose a tape like interface (for example in large environment with Legato NetWorker or Symantec NetBackup), in other cases the backup solutions works better with a network share and this become the first choice.

Now they have just announced the General Availability of version 8.0 of the FalconStor Optimized Backup & Deduplication solution. This solution combines industry-leading VTL technology and NAS functionality into one unified, simple-to-use platform with same core functions (that include also an enhanced support to Symantec OST).

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