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Veeam Backup and replication v 6.0 News

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Here are some fresh news about Veeam Backup and Replication v. 6.0. UPDATE: There has been a version 6.1 released which also introduced VeeamZIP – a Free Backup solution from Veeam Software. Check it out. Veeam continues the innovation process started in the early days and we can expect other great features appearing in the […]

Public vExpert Directory is available

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vExpert Directory is available onLine. All vExperts which did their inscription to the form provided for that purpose by John Troyer, are now accessible online. The whole directory which counts nearly 300 vExperts from all over the world, is finally up. And as you can imagine I did a few searches there to find myself […]

VMware vSphere 5 – Virtual Machine Hardware Version 8

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What’s the enhancements in Virtual Hardware version 8? VMware vSphere 4.x did introduced virtual hardware v. 7 and VMs with 256  Gigs of RAM. Now with VMware vSphere 5 it is possible to configure VMs with 1TB of RAM.. Those VMs are rather Monster VMs. Together with up to 32 virtual CPUs this is quite huge. Another […]

vSphere 5 – Installing web client

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The new webclient (server part) installation video. The new web client web interface is using Adobe Flex which is the same as the VMware View and vCloud Director user interfaces. The use of Flash plugin in your browser is necessary. The new Web client, present on the installation media of VMware vSphere 5 gets installed […]

The Official vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool is out

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The official release of vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool. At first, when the new licensing of vSphere 5 has been announced, there was Alan Renouf’s PowerCLI script available about checking on about the vRAM compliance. It’s because the Official vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool was still under development. It was an independent company which was contracted by […]

24 vCPU VMs with almost native performance on Fujitsu’s servers running vSphere 5

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This Info comes up from Vroom! blog from VMware. It seems that the first tests from VMware partners comes up and shows that having some monster VMs can be beneficial for applications like SAP. In fact, Fujitsu has tested 2 systems, one which has been running on physical server, and another one within VMware vSphere […]

vSphere 5 – Installing VUM – VMware Update Manager

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VUM – VMware Update Manager installation Video from my Lab. In this video you’ll see an installation of VMware Update Manager, which is integrated solution for patching ESX(i) hosts and VMs. Part of the installation is the upgrade process from vSphere 4.1, where you got the choice of deleting the old files (or not). The process […]

How Many VMs can you fit in virtualized environment

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A new whitepaper from vKernel showing a metrics-based approach to calculate a number of VMs which can fit in your virtualized environment. This free resource publication from Alex Rosenblat and Ken Latimer shows you some deep dives into some metrics which one hast to take into consideration when making a calculation of how many VM […]

Learn more about the new release of Starwind 5.7

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Starwind 5.7 – with 3 times faster HA functionality and more…  New Webminar What’s New in StarWind 5.7: The First Stage of Implementation of a New HA Architecture. When? Wednesday, August 10 2:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM GMT) During this webinar, Max Craft, StarWind Senior Systems Engineer, will discuss the new features of StarWind 5.7 […]