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Windows 10 and App Management With Project A2 – Airwatch

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During the Day 2 general session VMware brought an interesting project they are working on together with Microsoft. Project A2 it’s called secretly, and this project (currently in Tech preview) will be able to manage Windows 10 endpoints (workstations) via App Volumes and AirWatch (hence the name Project A2). Those endpoints can be physical or […]

Atlantis USX 3.0 Announced

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Atlantis Computing is announcing Atlantis USX 3.0 which brings in new SmartSnap feature allowing to initiate snapshot via vSphere but under the covers use more efficient and quicker technology. Another new feature is VVOL support and Atlantis is first hyper-converged software vendor supporting VVOLs. If you don’t know Atlantis computing I invite you to read […]

Hybrid Cloud Manager – New Add-On for vSphere 6.0 to manage OnPrem and Air Workloads

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A free, downloadable solution for vSphere Web Client called Hybrid Cloud Manager, with optional fee-based capabilities, will be available for vSphere 6.0. Management through a “Single pane of glass”. To say that finally VMware will be releasing a plugin which will allow you to mange On premise infrastructure AND at the same time the vCloud […]

VMware VSAN 6.1 Details

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VMware VSAN 6.1 is already third release of VMware VSAN. This release brings an enterprise features which brings stretched cluster features, NVMe and Diablo Ultra DIMM support (storage closer to the CPU, on memory-stick), but also enhanced usability and management with new Virtual SAN On-Disk format upgrade and disk group bulk claiming. Also an integration […]

VMware Validated Designs Introduced

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Hey, it’s VMworld Time again! Enjoy the show wherever you are! This year I’ll be present in VMworld Barcelona, so my readers, enjoy some writing during VMworld US, from my remote location – Reunion Island. Today’s post is about VMware Validated Designs which are introducing new way to work with design, architecture and implementation. VMware […]

Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO – Easy Convert With NTlite

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There is a cool utility to convert Windows 10 install.esd to an ISO image. The main purpose of the tool is however to customize Windows images, removing components from ISOs, driver integration, language packs or apps integration. Few weeks back when I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 10 to my USB stick I did it in […]

Tintri All-Flash VM-Aware With OS 4.0 details

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Few days back there has been an announce from one of the pioneers of the VM-aware storage – Tintri. A new Tintri All-Flash architecture with new All-Flash hardware models has been announced, as well as Tintri OS 4.0 which feature QoS per VM. Tintri is compatible together with VMware vSphere 5.x and 6.x (NFS), Red […]

Simplivity Omnistack 3.0 Announced With Up To 30% increase in IO performance

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Simplivity has announced Omnistack 3.0 Data Virtualization Platform. The third version of their hyperconverged architecture brings up to 30% more IO performance for real world workloads, new hardware nodes targets ROBO deployments and they also adds significant enhancements to data protection (backup and recovery) and global unified management capabilities. New nodes are discovered automatically without […]

Windows 10 Cleanup Windows.old Directory After Upgrade

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After upgrading to Windows 10 you might wonder that it would bee good idea to clean the old Windows files and files left after the succefull upgrade process finished. If you browse the root of your system drive, and you’ll probably find two directories quite large in size — $Windows.~BT, and $Windows.~WS, and also a Windows.old […]