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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeam has recently announced a new product cloud oriented: Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition. It includes several features, like: Supports 15 cloud vendors, including Amazon and Azure No cloud API’s to learn No re-design of local backup processes Encryption on the fly or at rest (configurable encryption up to AES 256-bit) Control bandwidth in real time and schedule limits to ensure bandwidth during working hours
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe challenge! SMB segment could be a (big) challenge due to the following reasons: Requirements: in most cases are the same of the enterprise segment. For example the required availability and SLA are really close and may imply similar solutions to achieve it. Constraints: are really different and in most cases very strictly. For example budget, but also the IT staff and skills. Evolution: and SMB may have big trend in evolution (or involution). Note that also in SMB, disaster recovery, business continuity, availability and security aspects have still to be considered. This kind of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesCloud computing is a way to use (and also deliver) computing resources (for a formal definition see The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing). For this reason there are different types of cloud based on which type of “computing” resources are provided. Mainly there are three big silos: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): usually it provides VMs a virtual datacenters resources (like storage and networking), and also the infrastucture need to manage them. An example of this kind of cloud is Amazon EC2. Platform as a service (PaaS): in this case a developer platform is provided […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the new vCloud suite 5.1 there are several improvements and new features in the networking and secuirity part. For vSphere 5.1 are mainly in the distribuited virtual switch (VDS) part with several news: Network Health Check support: helps detect misconfigurations across physical and virtual switches. Configuration Backup Restore: allows vSphere admins to store the VDS configuration as well as recover the network from the old configurations. Rollback and recovery: addresses the challenges that customer faced when management network failure caused the Hosts to disconnect from the vCenter Server. Port Mirroring enhancements: new troubleshooting capabilities […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, during the live event, VMware has announced the new release of most of their Cloud Suite products (concept already introduced with the announce of the release 5). New release will be v5.1 for all products to adopt a uniform and consistency enumeration across products (View 5.1 was already released some month ago!). So this will be the versions changes for the suite: vSphere 5.0 -> 5.1 vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 1.0 -> 5.1? vCloud Director 1.5 -> 5.1 vShield 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter SRM 5.0 -> 5.1 vCenter Operations 5.0 -> 5.1? As you […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware 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. See also: VMware Launched Cloud Certification – VCP5-IaaS Grapevine is Right – VCP5-IaaS Certification is Coming Soon More information on the VCP-IaaS page.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith this first post, I will start a collection of link and notes about the VCP5 exam prep. I will use the official blueprint (the actual version is 1.2, and is still related to the beta exam, but probably it will remain the same). Let’s start from the part that is not included in the blueprint (something is in objective 1.5): the VMware products and solutions overview and some concepts about cloud computing.
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