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MS Exchange Recovery Possibilities

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Some thoughts about MS Exchange recovery possibilities. I’ve done quite a few Exchange Server installations in my carreer. Both physical and virtual. The installation and migration processes are quite ok, but when it comes to possible recovery (recovery of DB, recovery of e-mail accounts or recovery individual emails) there are many solutions. I’ll try to […]

ESXi Free – how to upgrade to ESXi 5.1

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If you’re running the free version of ESXi 5.0 in your homelab or testing it at work, you might be wondering what’s the easy way to upgrade existing ESXi 5.0 installation to the latest ESXi 5.1 without much effort and without breaking your existing installation, without re-installing everything. Your existing VMs won’t be affected. I’ve already […]

New vSphere Web Client Search Capabilities

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vSphere Web client Searches – use them to fast access the objects you need. With the vSphere 5.1 availability since yesterday, many of you has already installed in a lab the new vSphere 5.1 web client. Remember, it’s only through the new vSphere 5.1 web client you’ll be able to test the new enhanced vMotion, for […]

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 […]