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ESXi 5.1 CLI reference poster – Free download

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ESXi 5.1 Reference poster – Free to download. A new updated ESXi 5.1 reference poster is available. The new VMware vSphere 5.1 vCloud Suite continues to be features rich and the 5.1 has a particularity to bring more value to the SMB customers by bringing in new products and functionality with no additional cost. I already detailed that in my […]

What’s new in VMware View 5.1 – Free VMworld 2012 Session Video

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VMware View is hot. It develops very fast and in some features is even ahead of the VMware Hypervizor. This video is from VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. It shows the developement of VMware View product, the new features introduced in View 5.1 and the shows also the new upcoming features of future releases of […]

VMware Mirage Released

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VMware Mirage enables you to give your users the possibility to use physical desktops (or VMs for VDI solutions), which are protected by Mirage. Protected how? Basically VMware Mirage does backup of the user’s profile, (pics, documents etc…) to a central location. Not only the users files are backed up, but the whole PC get […]

The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide

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The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide – prepares you for VCP510 exam. I saw the first announce about this new book – The Official VCP5 Certification Guide book – through a VMworld Video, where Eric Sloof did a book signings interviews with the authors. If you haven’t already saw those videos, you can have a lok […]

New VMware Certification Roadmap

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There has been new VMware Certification announced during VMworld 2012 San Francisco. Vmware is introducing new cloud certification and rebuilding a new certification roadmap. What’s new? A lot. Even the “old” VCP has become a fancy VCP-DCV (datacenter virtualization). So I’m VCP5-DCV now… -:). But Let’s see what’s changed and how the new VMware Certification Roadmap can […]

Licensing VMware – Further Reading

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As I already wrote in my article TOP vSphere 5.1 features where you had the possibility to learn about some cool new features introduced in vSphere 5.1. In addition, no more vRAM – good news. Just per-CPU-licensing… But there are other changes to the licensing of other products especially with the announce of the vCloud Suite, where […]

Coolest VMworld Videos

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I’ll try to collect in this article some best, and coolest videos of products presented during VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. One of the first innovative products which took my attention was VMware Mirage. An upcoming product which will be able to manage user’s profile (with data) from central location. Very storage efficient by using […]

Starwind iSCSI SAN 6.0 Released and Enhanced with VMware Backup Plugin

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Starwind SAN 6.0  – New release of Starwind’s popular iSCSI SAN software enhanced with VMware Backup Plugin This release came just in time for VMworld 2012 San Francisco. There is a new release of popular iSCSI SAN software – Starwind SAN 6.0. This software solution enables to use Windows Servers to create fault tolerance clustered […]

vSphere 5.1 licensing – vRAM is gone – rather good news, any more?

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vRAM is gone, so the licensing starts to became more healthy as well. Rather sarcastic, but correct, IMHO. VMware had to react concerning the vRAM, because Microsoft Hyper-V v3.0 is at the point to be released (it’s already RTM – read my article on that). Having a licensing packages more healthy comparing to the competition, […]