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New training – EMC Storage Essentials. Haven’t tried TrainSignal yet?

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TrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but using the whole TrainSignal’s online library with massive amount of training courses covering networking, virtualization, compute, or office […]

Horizon Mirage 4.2 Introduces New Cool Web Based Console and more…

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Newly released VMware Horizon Mirage 4.2, a product for managing physical or (and) virtual desktops, when it comes to endpoint management, migration from older systems and data protection. The latest VMware Horizon Mirage adds in addition to existing XP to W7 migration, also Vista to W7 migration possibilities. You might saw the VMware video where […]

VDI Calculator Tool as a free offline utility – now available

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VDI calculator allows is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash based online tool, can be now executed offline, without internet connection. VDI Calculator, as we can see from the screenshot, has been sponsored by few VDI partners, like Atlantis Ilio, which is a name that […]

VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) Advanced Training Course to prepare for VCAP5-DCA Exam

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TrainSignal has released a new training course for VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1, which can be used as a preparation to pass VCAP5-DCA Certification exam. The VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) dives into the advanced topics which is advanced storage management, storage connectivity and multipathing, VLANs and PVLAN management, vDS, Optimizing and tuning vSphere performance or advanced […]

How to install VIB on VMware ESXi

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Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. […]

Virtual Hardware 10 Present in VMware Workstation 2013 Tech Preview, plus more…

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The news has come out few days back, that VMware Workstation Technology preview 2013 is available for testing. Anyone can download and test the Tech Preview of VMware Workstation with Virtual Hardware Version 10 (or vmx-10) which will be (or should be) part of the final release. Each major step forward in Virtual Hardware version introduces […]

Optimizing PCoIP GPO Settings Horizon View 5.2

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VMware Horizon View 5.2 updated some PCoIP GPO settings. Those settings enhances the Persona management (via product from RTO Software – acquired by VMware) which has been introduced in View 5.0. You can read my post on How-to configure View Persona management here. You’ll see the step-by-step in the second video, where you’ll see the […]

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Blast Client and Demo

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First time I saw VMware Blast, it was through one of those VMworld Videos from San Francisco where it was demoed. Since then the technology has matured and evolved. Now, VMware Horizon View 5.2 Blast is present as a supported feature in the latest Horizon View 5.2 product. The Blast is part of what’s called Horizon […]