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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 […]

VMware EVO:RAIL – New Hyper-Converged Solution By VMware

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VMware EVO:Rail is one of the newest and hottest news that is announced by VMware. It’s a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance which consists of EVO:RAIL Software bundle and 2U 4-Node hardware platform. It’s not VMware who provides the hardware, so the thoughts previously written elsewhere that VMware goes into a hardware business are cleared out. No, it’s a hardware partners […]

VMware Docker Integration

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This year’s VMworld will be full of news. It’s not secret now that one of the announces is VMware Docker Integration. The news is publicly available via this link of VMworld session –  SDDC3350 – VMware and Docker – Better Together.  This and other news from the conference will be “raining” during the days to […]

VMware Virtual SAN Sizing Tool

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There is new Online utility which assists in design considerations and automates the storage sizing calculations for VSAN clusters. The utility gathers requirements in order to give you as an output a full detailed specifications. The process is done in two steps: Step1: You need to enter your VMs characteristics – size of VMDK, number of […]

How-to Monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer – New PDF

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There is a new whitepaper provide by VMware which teaches you how to monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer. It’s a utility which is baked in with vCenter server (since 5.5 U1) and which allows to dig deep into VSAN’s performance, see the IOPS, latency, Outstanding I/Os and congestions etc… It’s quite complex […]

Atlantis USX 2.0 – The New Hyper-Converged Leader?

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Atlantis computing just announced Atlantis USX 2.0 which brings some quite unique capabilities. If you don’t know Atlantis computing than you should read my article about diskless VDI architecture from Atlantis computing, which is another product they do – Fastest Virtual Desktop Experience – Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 – desktops running in RAM. (BTW, […]

Configuring IP Pools – What are vSphere IP pools for?

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Configuring IP pools is easy. IP pools were first introduced with vSphere 4, but they’re not necessarily used by everyone. IP pools are necessary if you want to create or deploy a vApp. They provide a network identity to vApps. IP pool gives a network config to VMs that run in the vApp. So you’ll […]

3 Free Videos To Get Started With PowerShell

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Veeam has created Free Videos to get started with Powershell. Those videos which are 4 h in total helps to get started with PowerShell. Each video provides not only the video, but also link to presentation (PDF), the PowerShell code used in those videos and cheat sheet. It’s an excellent way to get started. There is also […]