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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 […]

PowerCLI 5.8 R1 Announced as well as VMware SRM 5.8

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During VMworld, VMware has announced upcoming release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 R1 and VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 (SRM). The new vCloud Suite 5.8 when available, will also have new PowerCLI 5.8 R1, which will start faster and will have new cmdlets for storage policy. The new PowerCLI 5.8 U1 will also support the upcoming […]

vSphere Replication 5.8 Featuring Cloud Replication

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vSphere Replication 5.8 announced together with vSphere Data Protection 5.8 during VMworld, brings in an interesting possibility to replicate directly to the cloud service provider. When configuring the replication of your VM, you not only have possibility to replicate to another vCenter server, but also to cloud service provider’s facility. This could be any of […]

vSphere 6.0 Content Library

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VMware vSphere 6.0 is hot. Not released yet. Beta 6 is Still under NDA, but some features has already been unveiled. One of the new features that has been unveiled in this release is vSphere 6.0 Content Library. What it is? As you know, the NDA don’t allows us to report on All the details, but we cal talk […]

TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US are Online – Check it out

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TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US. There are new sessions from VMworld US 2014 available for free. There is a TOP 10 of them available. (in fact there is 18 of them). It’s a good way to allow to people which were not able to attend to still have something to watch until […]

vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – What’s New?

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First of all, both versions of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) gets new update. The latest versions will be vSphere Data Protection 5.8 when they’ll be available for download. For now the latest versions stays 5.5.6, which is already compatible with VSAN. The announce of the new version of VDP is especially interesting for customers who […]

Rapid-Cloning Technology (project Fargo) and copy-on-write architecture – Future of Desktop Virtualization

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Project Fargo was introduced during the second keynote on Day 2 at VMworld this year. It allows with ingenious technique to clone a VM (seconds, not minutes) and provide access to the user for that VM. It’s actually differential clone of a running VM. The new VM shares the memory and disk. I would also […]

DataDog Adds VMware vSphere Support

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DataDog is a monitoring service. It’s a SaaS application, which allows to gather thousands of metrics from many systems. It’s possible to correlate and search the metrics and events to obtain different views which helps to pinpoint problems related to application’s or VM’s performance. How does it works? DataDog needs to deploy a lightweight agent to […]