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On August 2018, VMware has officially announced that their certifications will change the names with something different and no more related to the product version.

New certification names will be identified by the year they are earned. Potentially this will make easier to immediately identify how current a certification is.

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Starting with vSphere 5.1, the VMware Tools update procedure was no more requiring a Windows VM reboot to finalize the process (see also
VMware Tools unattended upgrade).

But there were some cases where a reboot was still necessary (see
VMware Tools 5.1 upgrade may restart your Windows VM).

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Primary Data was a US startup that developed intelligence and automation software for enterprise data management across on-premises IT infrastructure and into the cloud.

Basically an abstraction layer over the primary storage using with Data Mobility through Data Virtualization (somehow like Nicira made with network).

I’ve wrote about this company and its interesting solution in two different posts (when company exit from stealth and one year later).

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During holidays, reading some books could be a pleasure but also a moment of growth and deepening.

And if you want to learn more on VMware NSX-v or NSX-T which book could be used?

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During holidays, reading some books could be a pleasure but also a moment of growth and deepening.

And if you want to learn more on VMware vSphere 6.7 which book could be used?

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With VMware vSAN you can use VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) to update all the software part, but it can also be useful to manage some hardware related updates.

Usually you have to check BIOS version (for example for Spectre and Meltdown bugs), but also the other firmware.

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Runecast Analyzer is a solution that provides software-defined expertise to mitigate service outages, increase security and compliance and reduce time in troubleshooting.

But Runecast also also another product: a free nobile app called Runecast Offline VMware Knowledge Base

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