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Podcast about the vSphere Client HTML5

7 February 2018
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The VMware Communities Roundtable is an informal talk with different (in each episode) VMware experts talking about virtualization. The podcast it’s live every Wednesday at noon CA time.

In the episode #421  I was invited to talk about the vSphere Client HTML5 and its limit, but also its pros.

The talk idea came from a post that I’ve wrote one month ago (Is the HTML5-based vSphere Client ready to replace the vSphere Web Client?) on the limitation of the new vSphere Client, but this was before the vSphere 6.7 and vSphere 6.5U2 releases.

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New Dell-EMC PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC

7 February 2018
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On May 2017, Dell EMC announced the next generation of PowerEdge servers: the new 14th generation, the first with the new Dell-EMC logo.

After less than 3 years from the introduction of Generation 13 of PowerEdge series, the newly designed 14th generation of the Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio forms a secure, scalable compute platform that is the ideal foundation for cloud, analytics or software-defined data center initiatives.

Of course, the new series was not complete with all models at the launch and has been shapen in the following months.

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Per VM license in Veeam products

6 February 2018
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Veeam licenses software in a variety of ways depending on the specific product and/or use case you are interested in. This includes licensing by the number of CPU sockets on a managed server (or host), as well as by the number of VMs, physical servers, workstations, cloud instances and/or users being managed.

We can summarize the different options (not all are available, it also depends on the product):

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Using Runecast to check Meltdown and Spectre bug

5 February 2018
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Meltdown and Spectre are critical vulnerabilities existing in several modern CPU: these hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. Meltdown and Spectre can affect personal computers, mobile devices, server and several cloud services.

There isn’t a single simple way to minimize those security risks, because you need to patch different levels of your stack. For a VMware environment, there are some tools to check your status (and also to help you to apply the right patches).

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Why upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.5 (or why not)

2 February 2018
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This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the pro and cons of an upgrade to vSphere 6.5. See also the original post.

VMware vSphere 6.5 is the latest version of the enterprise server virtual platform from VMware, but the new beta it’s already there for testers. Actually the next version it’s (in the beta) and you can register at https://secure.vmware.com/43478_vSphere_Beta_Reg.

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February 2018 IT events

1 February 2018
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Interesting European IT events:

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Red Hat is acquiring CoreOS

31 January 2018
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Red Hat has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for a purchase price of $250 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing that are not expected to be material.

Red Hat and CoreOS’s relationship began many years ago as open source collaborators developing some of the key innovations in containers and distributed systems, making automated operations a reality.

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