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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 […]

vMotion Enhancements in vSphere 6.0 – Long Distance vMotion, Across vSwitches and Across vCenters

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During the Day 2 keynote some VMware vSphere 6.0 has been announced by Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President, Software-Defined Data Center Division. The vMotion technology, which has been here for about a decade was continuously improved in previous releases. An example in vSphere 5.0 with multi-NIC vMotion function and also vMotion without shared storage. But let’s see what vSphere […]

vRealize Cloud Management Platform, vCloud Suite 5.8, vCloud Air Object Storage…

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What’s behind that term? What is vRealize Air automation? It is a new beta service from VMware. The service brings a comprehensive platform for managing the hybrid cloud. The platform combines the capabilities of VMware’s existing cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering to deliver. But it’s part of […]

Fujitsu and VMware EVO: RAIL Integration

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With yesterday’s announce about EVO: RAIL – a VMware Hyper-Converged Software product there was also some of the usual OEM partners that has provided some details about their integration of VMware EVO: RAIL product. Fujitsu and VMware EVO: RAIL Integration is a logical step as Fujitsu has been longtime VMware partner. Perhaps less known for […]

VMworld 2014 FlowGrab Beta Launching Centralized Workflow Repository

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FlowGrab is a public service created by ByteLife providing centralized workflow repository and collaboration environment for automation community. When one say automation tools, VMware administrators might usually think of vCenter Orchestrator which allows an orchestration of workflows. But that’s not the only tool even if the vCO is the only tool supported in the current […]

Infinio Accelerator v2.0 Announced with FC, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and Enviroments with Multiple Protocols

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Infinio announcing version 2.0 of their accelerating software for VMware workloads – Infinio Accelerator v2.0. While the previous release was able to accelerate NFS based workloads only, the second release can accelerate workloads on Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and environments with multiple protocols. Infinio creates a pooled storage layer from server’s RAM across the […]

VMware OpenStack Integration

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The OpenStack integration with VMware was on the roadmap since long time. There was a lack of flexibility in consuming VMs, disks etc in private clouds environments. There is no APIs for automated infrastructure consumption. That’s where OpenStack comes in. OpenStack brings flexibility in services where the consumption of services is flexible and allowing separate consumption of […]