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VCAP-DCA status: passed!

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This came as a very good news for me this morning as I just received a good news from VMware Certification about my VCAP5-DCA exam score report! Passed. This completes my second VCAP exam – VCAP5-DCD which I passed during my Lisboa’s stay in November last year. This was my second attempt for the VCAP5-DCA exam […]

VMware vExpert Program now with quarterly nominations

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vExpert program nominations is here again. This year change is that new vExperts can get nominated through the year and every quarter the application will be re-examined to perhaps let you in. The are now quarterly nominations into the 2014 vExpert program. We will leave the application open year round and at the end of […]

Free Utility: Thinapp Configuration Editor

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New free utility which has just been released by loginconsultants.com called Thinapp Configuration Editor allows to modify, build and export their virtual VMware ThinApp applications. Especially useful for complicated applications which needs otherwise to be tweaked and edited via Notepad. The utility has been created by Ralph Jansen and is provided as freeware (registration is required) by […]

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect to prepare VCP 5.5 if you don’t have homelab

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If you don’t own homelab or Powerfull PC, or you cannot break production environment (obviously in most cased you can’t) you have another option to prepare for your VCP exam. This offering is called VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect allows to get 30 hours of preconfigured lab environment Online. The lab environment consists […]

Unitrends Entreprise Backup Free version offers to backup 8 VMs – with no time expiry

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Unitrends Enterprise Backup has an offering which might interest very small shops running VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervizors in their environments. The company offers free edition of their backup software which allows to protect 8VMs in virtual environment running VMware vSphere (or standalone ESXi) or Microsoft Hyper-V. The backup product deploys as a virtual appliance for […]

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 updated to match the latest vSphere 5.5

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VMware has released recently the latest update to vCenter Support Assistant 5.5, which is a virtual appliance (650 Mb) allowing to configure. The product is free to download, but can only be used for clients on active SNS or for clients buying support per-incident. vCenter support shows as a vCenter plugin through vSphere web client and […]

Free VMware Log Insight Training Online by VMware Education

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There is newly added a VMware Log Insight Training (3 modules), which teaches you some basics to get started with vCenter Log insight, a logging solution by VMware. vCenter log insight has the particularity to be able to be expanded with community packs and has can also be integrated to vCOPs. I have reported on […]

vFLOWer Toolkit – a solution that converts vCO packages into versionable source code (XML) and vice versa

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Interesting solution for sharing vCenter Orchestrator Workflows has been developed by ByteLife. The solution can convert vCO packages into versionable source code in XML and back. Even if vCO is one of the less known products of VMware vSphere and even I’m not a vCO expert AT ALL, this solution has took my attention as […]

Best Practices for Virtualizing AD on VMware vSphere

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Virtualizing business critical applications, like Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must be done right and with caution. Windows Server 2012 has introduced new feature called VM-Generation ID, which enables the underlying ESXi to expose a 128bit counter within the guest VM. This allows the VM to be aware that the VM has been restored from snapshot or […]