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ioFABRIC Vicinity 3.0

3 January 2018
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ioFABRIC Inc. is a data management company whose software solves data challenges while reducing complexity, and optimizing costs. It was founded in 2013 by an executive team that has worked together for more than 20 years is funded by private investors.

Their main product, ioFABRIC Vicinity, is a multi-site, multi-cloud data fabric ensuring storage is always available, always protected, always evergreen. Vicinity creates a data fabric supporting applications running on legacy servers, VMs, containers, and clouds. Vicinity is sold through ioFABRIC’s reseller and distribution channel, through its powerful LEaD program. Partners sell Vicinity as licensed software or by white-labeling it with additional hardware and/or software.

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January 2018 IT events

1 January 2018
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Interesting European IT events:

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NIC performance issues in vSphere 6.5

28 December 2017
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Now that the PSOD on vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs issue is finally solved seems that vSphere 6.5 critical bugs are closed, but it’s not totally true.

During an upgrade from a vSphere 6.0, I’ve found a really strange iSCSI storage issues where all the VMs on the iSCSI datastore were so slow to become un-usable. First I was thinking about drivers or firmware, in the hosts and in the NIC (1 Gbps) or the firmware on the storage.

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PSOD on vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs: solved!

27 December 2017
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On October 2017, I wrote a post about a possible issue with vSphere 6.5 and 10 Gbps NICs (mostly standard on new deployment). The final result was a PSOD (Purple Screen Of the Death) and no solution was available (yet).

VMware KB 2151749 describe this issue as related to possible upgrade at vSphere 6.5. But other customers have report the issue also on new deployment.

Veeam, one of the first vendor to found this issues (from their customers), reports that the issues is due to network-intensive activities such as backup over NBD or vMotion randomly triggering one. But seems that this bug can be triggerer not only from high network load, but also from creating vmkernel ports.

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New book: Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

25 December 2017
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As written in a previous post, some months ago, I’ve started a huge personal project that consumes all my spare free time. This project was a new book on VMware vSphere 6.5, really ambitious considering that will be a “Mastering” book, but the title and part of the content were not negotiable with the editor.

Finally, the book Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 is done and it’s now available on Packt site (and in the future also on Amazon).

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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1

21 December 2017
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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 has been released on May 2017, and now there is a new version available: v2.1.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is built on the extremely successful Veeam Endpoint Backup™ FREE and includes two brand new editions — Workstation and Server — with additional features designed to ensure the Availability of your Windows workloads by providing backup and recovery for physical and cloud-based workloads, as well as endpoint devices that belong to remote users.

There are a lot of improvements and new features for this new version.

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#NutanixNTC 2018 – Nutanix Technology Champion

21 December 2017
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Nutanix has announced the new list of Nutanix Tech Champions (NTC) 2018.

NTC is a community award, started on 2014, similar to others programs like VMware vExpert, Microsoft MVP, Cisco Champions, EMC Elect, … rewarding members of the community on their efforts in sharing their knowledge and enabling fellow community members.

The Nutanix Technology Champion program spans the globe and is comprised of IT professionals from every cloud, application group, and technology. They are committed to news ways of thinking that will power the next generation of enterprise computing.

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