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New Free Script (with GUI) called Event-O-Matic to pick an event to generate a PowerShell Code

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Luc Dekens has created a nice script which brings up a GUI which enables you to pick up a number of events, and then the script will generate PowerShell code which is placed to the clipboard. He named it Event-O-Matic and it’s available from his blog. When you connect to your vCenter, you have on […]

VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN performance

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VMware VSAN which has been introduced during VMworld 2013 in SF allows to use local disks together with local SSDs (for acceleration) to create a pool of storage visible to all hosts in the cluster as a shared datastore. The product is not available yet. Here are some news about some cool management tools are showing […]

vSphere 5.5 demos – New Interactive Product Walkthroughs

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VMware vSphere 5.5 announced earlier this week during VMworld 2013 in San Francisco just got about twice robust than the 5.1 release. The enhancements are and innovations at multiple levels. There is a new website which allows to see interactive vSphere 5.5 demos. One of the speakers during the keynote said that VMware is contributing 70% […]

vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 (vCSA) – Installation and Configuration Video

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Here is another video I’ve recorded during the beta phase of VMware vSphere 5.5. Its an installation and configuration of the vCSA, together with DNS and IP configuration. As you could already read on one of my posts about vSphere 5.5, the vCenter Server Linux Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 has now more robust features which supports […]

Free VMworld 2013 Session – The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage

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There is over 22 000 attendees this year at VMworld 2013 San Francisco, for the 10th VMworld! This is a new record, certainly, but I think that there is many more people which still could not attend. For different reasons, financial, time, work, family…  I’m trying to cover the event remotely too, as I’m planning […]

ESXi 5.5 free Version has no more hard limitations of 32GB of RAM

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ESXi 5.5 free limitations has been lifted by VMware. VMware ESXi 5.5 Free version limitations to 32 GB of physical RAM only is gone! VMware has introduced the new enhanced version of VMware vSphere 5.5 yesterday during VMworld 2013 in SF. So this kind of information interests the whole virtualization ecosystem. But concerning virtualization at home, […]

Installation of ESXi 5.5 in VMware Workstation

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Hi all. This is a simple demo of installation of the latest build of ESXi 5.5 (build 1198610) in VMware Workstation, as the product will be released in couple of days. The latest improvements of VMware vSphere 5.5 offers twice as more (x2) everything (vCPU, Memory, storage), 62TB virtual disks, vSAN, vFlash, AppHA…. ++++.  The latest […]

Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 – New Book

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VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced, but it’s not available yet. New release of popular vSphere Book – Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 has been announced and also only in pre-order at Amazon for now. I believe that everyone else lives on What’s happening during VMworld 2013 San Francisco, right? Check out my VMworld 2013 Blog Page! I […]