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Copy/Paste in a VMware View session

18 June 2012
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Probably you have already notice that copy & paste operation in a VMware View session are limited for security reasons and is discussed in the View admin guide:

Configure clipboard redirection

Determines the direction in which clipboard redirection is allowed. You can select one of these values:

  • Enabled client to server only  (That is, allow  copy and paste only from the client system to the View desktop.)
  • Disabled in both directions
  • Enabled in both directions
  • Enabled server to client only (That is, allow  copy and paste only from the View desktop to the client system.)

Clipboard  redirection is implemented as a virtual channel. If virtual channels  are disabled, clipboard redirection does not function. When this setting is disabled or not configured, the default value is “Enabled client to server on”.

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Virtual Appliances: angels o demons?

14 June 2012
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When I explain the advantages of a virtual infrastructure, I usually add the virtual appliances (VA) as a good example of a plus that you can get. Similar to usual appliances, they can save your time in installation and configuration tasks… and in a virtual environment they can also same time in deployment (and sometime also money). There are several other pros described on What are the Benefits of Deploying Virtual Appliances?

But they may have also some possible disadvantages…

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New VMware Certification: VCP5-IaaS

13 June 2012
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VMware is working a new certification specific for the “cloud”: VMware Certified Professional 5 – Infrastructure as a Service (VCP5-IaaS).

Some individuals are about to be invited to paticipate in the beta phase. The rumor goes that the public exam should be live late July.

The exam will probably measure the skills and abilities installing, configuring and administering a vCloud environment.

Sign up here to know as soon as it’s publicly available.

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More information on the VCP-IaaS page.

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My experience with VCAP5-DCD exam

11 June 2012
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Last week I’ve taken the official VCAP5-DCD, to remediate the failure of the VCAP5-DCD beta and  try to gain this certification.

The exam is really huge: The VDCD510 exam contains 100 questions (in the beta 131). The total time for this exam is 225 minutes (same of the beta). Candidates who take the VDCD510 exam in a country where English is not a primary language will have an additional 30 minutes added to the exam time. This time extension is automatic, no additional action is required from the candidate.

There were jsut a few questions with a single answers (from 4-5 options), and the options were quite similar (so also those questions were not too easy). Bust most of the questions were a mixture of multiple-choice (with more answers) and drag-and-drop items. The “visio” questions (design items using an in-exam design tool) were more than one (in my case I think to remember 5) and require several time, to read the text and also to use the tool (I still hope an improvement at least in the connectors stencil to have a sticky function or keep selected).

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Storage for VDI: local or shared?

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In my interview with Sakthi Chandra (NexentaVSA for View Director), during the last Open Storage Summit EMEA, we have talk about the Nexenta approach of the storage for a VDI environment. Their product has been developed from a collaboration with VMware and some aspects sound familiar: for example the overview of the VSA deployment and design seems similar to the VMware VSA, except the scalability limit (that is limited to max 3 host for the VMware solution). But I don’t want talk about the product, yet (I prefer dedicate it a post, when I will be able to make some test), but about the approach: using local storage instead of shared storage.

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Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1

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Most of you have notice that there was a page on Veeam site (Something Awesome is coming) with a countdown: on June 4th they have announcing *something*.

It’s the new version of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 that add several enhancements from the v6.0:

  • VeeamZIP: a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP™.
  • New console with a “Ribbon Design”: while wizards and dialogs (which account for 90% of the user interface) haven’t changed, it’s now easier to get to them.
  • vPower for Hyper-V: v6.1 extends Veeam’s patent-pending vPower® technology—as well as Instant VM Recovery—to Hyper-V. vPower runs a VM directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage. You can run a VM from any restore point (full or incremental), without changing the backup. vPower enables Instant VM Recovery, which lets you restart a failed VM from a regular backup in as little as 2 minutes.
  • Additional enhancements: in Intelligent load balancing, Engine, Backup, Replication, VM copy, VM migration, File-level restore, User interface…

But probably the most interesting point is the Veeam Backup Free Edition, that replace the “old” FastSCP free tool. The free mode provides a subset of the functionality in the full (paid) editions of Veeam Backup & Replication, including VM and file recovery. So if you ever need to perform a restore but don’t have access to a Veeam backup server, you can simply download and install Veeam Backup Free Edition. You don’t need a license key, and you can recover VMs, VM files and guest files. The new VeeamZIP capability is the backup method of this edition.
Veeam Backup Free Edition also includes file management capabilities. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as “the New FastSCP™.

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VMware vExpert gift and certificates

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Finally I also have received the vExpert 2011 gift and certificates for the 2010 and 2011 period. Thanks again to VMware for recognizing me as a vExpert for 2010 and 2011 and thanks go out to Alex Maier and John Troyer for making sure we got some really nice stuff.

And, of course, thanks also for the vExpert 2012 nomination!

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