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VCP for life – are you in?

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Catchy title for not so catchy problem. VMware has announced yesterday a new recertification policy – Recertification Policy: VMware Certified Professional. The news came out from a fellow blogger Christian Mohn (@vninja). He posted the details on his blog and I reacted on the announce by posting two comments. I had a mixed feeling… Feeling that […]

Official VMware VSAN Design and Sizing Guide (PDF)

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VMware VSAN Design and Sizing Guide is an up-to-date document that helps to understand VSAN requirements for SSDs, HDDs, but also for memory and CPU per host, as VSAN introduces about 10% of CPU overhead.  The paper was updated at the same time as the yesterday announce for the VSAN Launch and new configuration maximums. The […]

VMware released Horizon Mirage 4.4 with Windows 8.x support and new Mirage Gateway

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VMware released Horizon Mirage 4.4 which supports management of endpoints running Windows 8.0 and Windows 8.1, in addition to existing OS starting with Windows XP. Additional new feature called Mirage Gateway allows secure centralized management of remote endpoints without the need of VPN. Additional enhancements integrates even more the Horizon Mirage product with Horizon View offering […]

Infinio Accelerator 1.2 now with vSphere 5.5 compatibility

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Infinio is a software company which provides an unique server side software acceleration solution for NAS which uses RAM to accelerate VMware vSphere workloads. They just released version 1.2 of their product – Infinio Accelerator. The latest 1.2 release of Infinio Accelerator is compatible with the latest version of vSphere 5.5. Infinio is fairly new […]

VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials – New Book

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There is a new book in town! This book is about VMware vCenter Operations and is written by Lauren Malhoit and reviewed by some great IT guys like Chris Wahl, Michael Poore and Mike Preston. The book which was released with Packt Publishing, is available now through many of the Online stores as Paperback or […]

vSphere Web Client Configuration Cheat Sheet

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There is new PDF from Global Knowledge called Configuration Cheat Sheet for the New vSphere Web Client. This Free E-book (Free registration required) does focus on most common configuration issues and tasks that vSphere admin daily does. Those tasks can be configuration of VMs, networking, storage, settings of resources, cluster settings, permissions and many others.  The vSphere Web […]

Free Utility for View Deployments – Horizon View Configuration Tool

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This utility released by VMware Labs looks pretty awesome. It automates the deployment of VMware Horizon View installations. How it works? Simple. Its a virtual appliance bundled with all necessary VMware components that are necessary for the Horizon View setup. The only thing you need to provide is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ISO. The Horizon […]

How to install Android KitKat in VMware Workstation

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Recently I stumbled on an article which briefly explains the installation of Android KitKat 4.4 in VMware Workstation. I knew that previous version of Android worked fine (including network) in VMware Workstation – see this post, but some tweaks were necessary. I wanted to test the latest version of Android, to see how it looks like […]

Upgrading vCenter Server using Simple Install

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VMware vSphere allows using simple install for upgrading from 5.0 and 5.1 installations. VMware has published a new video of  Upgrading vCenter Server using Simple Install, walking through the steps. The vCenter Server 5.0 uses default values in this video for: SSO site name HTTPS port Installation directory If in your environment you’re using custom values […]