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Reading Time: < 1 minuteZerto has announced the new version 3.0 of Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) during the last VMware Partner Exchange. Now this product it’s available for public, private and hybrid clouds.
In addition to enterprise-class RPO and RTO, simplicity and scalability – key features of Zerto’s core technology – ZVR 3.0 includes new functionality for effective disaster recovery, data protection and workload migration and mobility.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam has just released the new version of Backup & Replication program with a lot of enhancement and new cool features (and also with a new product edition).
Most of the related news are already know (partially I’ve describe some of them in this previous post), now it’s time to test and use them!
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn July 21st I’ve recevied an email from the VMware certification team for the first big changes in the transcript page: a unique ID for all VMware certifications and also consisten with the VUE ID. This also explay why, starting from VCP-Cloud, there was always the same VCP number also for new type of certifications. The result was a new transcript will all the ID replaced by one in the new form: VMW-00061532M-00014099. The last part is exactly the old VCP number.
My guess was that this could be the first step to have a sharing tool for the transcript (like other vendor transcripts):
Reading Time: 10 minutesAlthough there are some comparison between Hyper-V 2012 R2 (the version 4 of this product) and the existing vSphere 5.1 suite (like this one: Comparing WS2012 R2 Hyper-V and vSphere 5.1), I prefer keep consistency in the available product versions and compare the actual releases (and replace the precedent and old comparison between Hyper-V 2012 and vSphere 5.0).
The 3rd release of Microsoft Hyper-V and the VMware ESXi (and vSphere suite) 5.1 has similar technical features (and both of them are in the top-right Gartner quadrant), and probably for the first time, VMware has added one year ago some features (like the VMware vSphere Replication) to respond at the Hyper-V functionality (also some features, like Storage vMotion, has been moved to lower edition). I think that this a big value related to a good competition and customers are the first to gain the most advantages!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter one month from the v3.2 announce, NAKIVO has announce the new v4 release (available in 2013) of their Backup & Replication product with several new features. Note also that new edition will be introduced with this new release: Enterprise and Cloud Service Provider editions.
Starting from the v3 features, the new key features are: multi-tenancy, self-service, scalability, object recovery, backup verification. For more information join the NAKIVO v4 – New Enterprise and Cloud Editions webinar or 20th August.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome weeks ago I’ve got the opportunity to speak with Steve Crawford, vice president of marketing and business development at Jamcracker Inc, about their solution and their vision about the cloud.
Jamcracker is a global leader in cloud services brokerage (CSB) enablement solutions. They help companies become cloud services brokers with their Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) solutions. Jamcracker can help companies to unify delivery of private, public, or hybrid cloud services to your customers, through the channels, and to their employees.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a previous post, I’ve write on how build custom ESXi ISO with 3rd part tools. Those tools are not mentioned by VMware so probably are not supported. But you need a custom ISO in order to install ESXi on a host where the network drivers are missing (storage could be not an issue if you install it on a USB/Flash card).
The other solutions are use a vendor related custom ISO or the embedded version that probably already include the right drivers.
But in order to build your custom ISO you could use the same framework designed for the AutoDeploy solution. The advantages if that you study and understand better this part, that could be useful for the VCAP-DCA exam (for example).
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