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Virtualizing Oracle DB on VMware vSphere – The Book

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There is a new book (currently in pre-order) which targets administrators who will be virtualizing Oracle DB on VMware vSphere. The book is written by Kannan Mani and Don Sullivan, is available in pre-order at Amazon. It detailes the architecture, performance, design, sizing, and high availability. It focuses on current versions of Oracle and vSphere, while highlighting […]

Virtual SAN Network Design Guide

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VMware has released a new whitepaper helping out for VSAN network design. The paper provides an outline of VSAN functions and then focuses on different network scenarios. It walks through the possibilities and best practices for configuring networking with putting an accent on 10GbE which is actually not required but strongly recommended. Quote from the […]

VMware Horizon Suite: Building End User Experience – New Book by VMware Press

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This book covers all Horizon Suite (Workspace, Mirage and View) concerning planning, implementation and examples. It’s published by VMware press and the author are Paul O’Doherty and Stephane Asselin. Looking at the content gives you already the idea whats in. Three VMware products within the Horizon suite are covered. The VMware Horizon Suite: Building End User […]

Secure Content Sharing And Messaging with End to End Security – Places from Reunion Island

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I was quite surprised by discovering this new startup from Reunion Island – an Island where I live, trying to solve quite painful problem these days – privacy and security for individuals. What if the way to go to the personal security and privacy lead through our own protection, without letting the others spy at our data […]

VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 Validation Guide

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This guide helps to do a check of VSAN requirements before and after deployment. VMware engineers used this document internally first in order to validate the VSAN requirements before hitting the “enable VSAN” checkbox. It allows some head scratching on “why am I getting this error?”. If you go through and successfully validate all the […]

VMware Fusion 7 and Fusion 7 Pro released – ready for Yosemite

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New version of VMware Fusion 7 and Fusion 7 Pro version has been released yesterday bringing more efficiency (up to 46% compared to Fusion 6), more performance and more features. Fusion Pro version can run a greater range of operating systems (over 200) and has a supports for iSight cameras in VMs. It can also connect […]

Free Tool for Nested ESXi Labs – ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter

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There is a free utility called ESXi MAC learning dvFilter released by VMware Labs last week. This utility is provided as a VIB and installs on the physical ESXi host, not on the virtual ESXi hosts. I learned about it by reading posts from William Lam and Andreas Peetz. ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter is kind of […]

Backup and Restore ESXi Configuration with PowerCLI

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In some situations you might need to backup or restore configuration of your ESXi host. This can be done with several tools with GUI front end or you can use tools diretly built-in ESXi and vSphere. And that’s what we will explore today. There might be a situation where the only choice is what you already have […]

EVO: RAIL Demo Video – VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

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Before VMworld I have assisted to VMware EVO: RAIL presentation. VMware Hyper-Converged infrastructure presentation video wasn’t available to the public until today, when Duncan Epping has published the video done by Dave Shanley. So here is EVO: RAIL Demo Video. VMware EVO:RAIL has been demoed during VMworld and I have also published a details, together with […]