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New ESXi Security Whitepaper released

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There is a new ESXi security whitepaper which has been released by VMware. The Author is Mike Foley. The paper covers pretty much everything which is security related and its destined to the IT team managing VMware infrastructures and it treats security of the VMware ESXi hypervisor in over 25 pages. Quote from the source: […]

New VCP-Cloud Certification Exam (VCPC550) available

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After a VCP550 announced last month (read my article – New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available) covering datacenter virtualization, there is now also new VCP-Cloud certification exam based on vCloud Director 5.5 and VCAC 5.2 is available. With codename VCPC550.  You need to attend the vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] OR VMware vCloud Automation […]

Bandwidth, latency and connectivity measures with PsPing – Free Utility

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There is a free tool called PsPing – Free Utility, which implements Ping functionality, TCP ping, latency and bandwidth measurement. It’s a command line tool which shows you the results on the screen but there is also an option for generating histogram which can be easily imported into spreadsheet. The utility is part of PsTools which is […]

Free 90 min of On Demand Classroom which meets VCP requirements

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There is a new offer from VMware which promotes new training format for passing VCP certification. As you know, to pass VCP you need to attend a class and then only you are able to pass the certification exam to finaly earn the VCP title. There is another way to attend a VMware class – […]

New Book – Learning PowerCLI

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There is a new book for VMware administrators willing to enter the learning process of PowerCLI. This is not the first book on PowerCLI as I know at least another one which I reviewed a while back –  PowerCLI Book (VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference) If you’re not aware, check this post. The book I’m referring […]

Veeam 7.0 R2 Patch 3 release brings performance improvements

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Veeam released third patch already for Veeam 7.0 which brings several enhancements and performance improvements especially useful in large scale environment. Veeam does recommends especially to those bigger customers so they can take advantage of new performance enhancements. Veeam 7.0 R2 Patch 3 release details can be found at this KB1854. One of the improvements […]

VMware vCloud Connector (VCC) now free

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VMware has made vCloud connector available as a free tool. In the past there were two versions of VCC, which one of them was paid one. The core and advanced versions were merged together in the version 2.6 to be available as free download. The architecture is still based on server node and client node […]

VSAN Availability is Known – March 2014, and shall have up to 16 nodes support

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VMware VSAN shall be released in March 2014. This is close! We’re already in Mid-February. VMware VSAN is currently in public Beta and all beta customers can apply for 20% discount. It’s limited time discount on any product purchase of 10 licenses or more. (valid until June 2014). VMware VSAN is licensed per CPU. If […]