Starwind V2V converter is a free software which allows converting VHD to VMDK virtual disk files. It allows to convert VHD to VMDK virtual disk file format. VMware converter, which has been updated recently to version 6.1, does need Hyper-V server running in order to connect to and convert hyper-V virtual machine into VMware VMs. […]
VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide
New book by VMware Press, with DVD allowing to learn towards VCP Cloud exam. The authors Tom Ralph and Nathan Raper who works as a senior cloud service architect at VMware. The paper book shall be released the 31st of October and contains a DVD with testing software, whether the kindle edition is already out. But the […]
VMware vCenter Server Converter 5.5 released with virtual hardware 10 support and more
VMware has updated vCenter Converter software to match the latest virtual hardware version. vSphere 5.5 has introduced virtual hardware version 10 and converter hasn’t been updated since the vSphere 5.5 release. So the latest release – Build 1362012 – brings not only the vmx-10 support but also, and this is surprising, support for converting RedHat KVM […]
Microsoft ReFS first look
ReFS format for disk volumes in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 brings more resiliency than NTFS. Microsoft ReFS and the possibility to use ReFS formatted volumes were introduced early 2012 to provide a filesystem which has more resiliency, and offers auto-healing functions when used together with Storage spaces function. For those of you not […]
VMware Horizon View 5.3 brings Windows 8.1, IOS 7.0, vDGA and VSAN support!
VMware Horizon View 5.3 is just “small” update release when it comes to incremental update number, but big release in features! It’s just an announce, but this is often the case now with VMware: Announce First > General Availability Second. Who knows why? Perhaps they got less pressure to fine tune the latest details…. But […]
OCZ Enterprise and VXL for VMware Acceleration Software
Company called OCZ very well known for popular consumer based SSDs were exposing during VMworld Barcelona not only hardware based consumer and enterprise SSDs and PCIe cards, but also an acceleration software. I know OCZ for their Vertex 4 drivers, because I’m using a pair of 256Gb in my lab, but haven’t heard about their […]
Hyperconvergence, server side caching and other virtualization trends during VMworld 2013 Barcelona
VMworld Barcelona 2013 finished and my role as a blogger is to write about my thoughts of the event. It’s not a duty, it’s a pleasure. While during last year’s VMworld, Nutanix has impressed me already, this year I’ve met some really interesting and passionate people working for Nutanix, and they told me that other […]
Auto-Optimize your virtual infrastructure with VMturbo
I think that VMturbo needs closer look as it seems that fairly often they’re put into a “monitoring” solution basket. That’s not what they’re doing. Of course they monitor the virtual infrastructure, but only to be able to take corrective actions so the application can perform in state where its performance is not degraded. They […]
DR Scenarios with Simplivity – video
Simplivity uses standard server platform with specially designed PCIe card which allows very efficient inline deduplication, compression and optimization of data. The rest of the hardware is commodity hardware with 10 GbE network. It’s VM aware platform which uses policies build around VMs running in the vSphere infrastructure. Pairing with another Simplivity block locally or […]
Nutanix Hardware and Software Platform – Video VMworld 2013 Barcelona
Nutanix already impressed me during last year’s VMworld. They continue their development this year when they has announced NOS 3.5 recently and Prism UI – which is a HTML 5 based UI as a front-end for the NOS 3.5. The NOS 3.5 brings Elastic Deduplication Engine which accelerates an application performance with near instantaneous response times and up to 10x improvement in […]
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