Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that the VMworld US 2012 is over, I can can summarize what I’ve liked and what not in this big event. The best moments and aspects where: Networking with other people is (IMHO) the main reason to attend at this kind of event. Was a pleasure and an honor know new people and see again old friends. VMware Office of the CTO event: great event with a lot of great people. HoL Backstage: amazing and really interesting know how are made the HoL and also find how products are fit together (nice see that […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the first day of the VMworld US, VMware has updated (and changed) its certifications page by adding more certifications (some available soon) and by defining two new certification paths. For the new certifications there isn’t too much to say, some where expected from several months (like the VCAP-DT), other are quite new and related with the new certifications paths (see Certification Roadmap) that will be basically four: Datacenter Virtualization (DV) that already exist and it’s completed Cloud End Using Computing (previous know at DT path) Cloud Application Platform Except the last path that is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the VMworld US 2012 several new VMware products has been announced, starting from the VMware Cloud Suite 5.1 announce (from the first keynote) and the End User Computing vision (from the second keynote). The new Cloud Suite will introduce several improvements and new features (for a complete list see: Technical Whitepaper: What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Platform), some already discussed: The vSphere Web Client Enhanced vMotion VM replication in vSphere 5.1 (without SRM) VDP: the new backup product Networking and Security improvements No more vRAM entitlement (also for vSphere 5.0) Changes in prices and edition’s included […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the new vSphere 5.1, there is a missing component replaced by a new one: VMware Data Recovery (VDR) has been replaced by the new VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). VDR was a backup solution introduced with vSphere 4.0 and based on the VMware vSphere API for Data Protection (VADP) which includes the Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology (to have incremental backup). But was a limited product (especially not suitable to scale to with several VMs) and also the 2.0 version introduced in vSphere 5.0 was not so changed too much (except in a little […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring the keynote of the second day, Steve Herrold have present the new End User Computing (EUC) solutions from VMware. Starting from the new View and Mirage approach where you can handle both physical and virtual desktop and you really plan both Windows OS migrations (from XP to 7 for example), but also handle the move from physical to virtual (with a real good live example from Vittorio Viarengo). The next part was the Horizon Suite that can handle the access to all desktops, applications, data of you EUC. Included the Horizon Mobile that could […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is installed on the same server as Veeam Backup and Replication, and Veeam Backup and Replication is upgraded to version 6.1 without upgrading Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, you will get an error about the Veeam Backup Catalog Data service. Upon rebooting, the server will go into an infinite reboot loop. The solution is well described in the KB 1645: Uninstall Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam Backup Catalog service. Run Veeam_B&R_Setup_x64 to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication to version 6.1. Allow machine to restart. Run Veeam_B&R_EnterpriseManager_Setup_x64 to upgrade Veeam Backup […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the previous posts we have discuss about the architecture and the deployment of NexentaVSA for View. Has you have probably notice the configuration of NexentaStor VSA is really simple: just an OVF deploy, a test to verify that all is fine and a convert to template to be used during virtual desktop pool deployment. Now let’s talk about how use this product, that it’s well described in the User Guide and also in this video. As written in the previous post, the management appliance could be controller with a simple browser (Mozilla Firefox v9 […]
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