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VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

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In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]

Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support

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Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]

vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight

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There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.6 – Install, Configure and Manage vRealize Operations Manager For Horizon

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Another chapter towards the end concerning our VCP6-DTM study guide for VMware Horizon View Suite, but especially towards all the objectives on the VCP6-DTM blueprint. Todays post covers VCP6-DTM Objective 1.6 – Install, Configure and Manage vRealize Operations Manager For Horizon. vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon is available in 3 different installation packages, starting with OVA (pre-packaged […]

8 Tb NAS Hard Drives by Seagate

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Huge capacity coming from Seagate! Seagate launching 8Tb hard drives for NAS market as well as for Small Business or Enthusiasts. You can achieve a huge capacity when using in a NAS device at home or for small company, but this large capacity might bring a drawback too – the RAID rebuild time. Imagine having […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 Released!

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9 has been released. Just before X-mass the RTM version was made available to partners and folks being part of the Vanguard program (including me). The product has an easy installer allowing the upgrade process to be a snap. I have detailed the upgrade process in my post here. Get a […]

OCZ RevoDrive 400 Crystal Mark 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write

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OCZ is showcasting at CES their upcoming Revodrive 400 PCIe NVMe drive. It seems that the Toshiba based 15 nm MLC NAND based SSD has some excellent performance. Hitting 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write in CrystalDiskMark. As being said, the OCZ RevoDrive 400 PCIe NVMe SSD has been benchmarked during CES 2016 show and it has sequential […]

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

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VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View)

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Horizon View and preparation for VCP6-DTM Study guide continue today with Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View). Today’s (long) chapter is divided into several sections, each one of those very important and “un-skippable”. This guide shall help, but it’s only a part of the equation… So far we have covered few chapters (the road is long). […]