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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 […]

See if your VMs are over or under provissionned – video

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New video from vKernel shows how to identify and optimize vRAM allocated to your VMs. Even if the vRAM entitlement limit has been raised up recently by VMware, you might still need to see which of your VMs running in your VMware vSphere environment are not right sized.  You have a look at vOPS Optimizer […]

vSphere 5 – Clean ESXi 5.0 Installation video from my lab

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My turn to show an installation of ESXi 5.0 in my lab. In this video I’m showing clean installation of ESXi 5.0 in one whitebox from my lab. I do a clean installation of ESXi 5.0 (beta release), so I’m whipping my previous ESXi 4.1 from that USB stick. I do it in purpose just […]

ESXi 5.0 vRAM entitlement changes

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VMware vSphere 5.0 vRAM entitlement has changed. The new vRAM entitlement introduced few weeks ago was really not popular and this community thread which has nearly 100 pages is the witness.  But it’s over now. The vRAM entitlement went up considerably (it’s been doubled in some cases) and even the small percentage of customers which […]

VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference – My look

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference – The book – www.powerclibook.com. It’s been some time that I got in my hands this book, but did not find enough time to read it… and even less time to write a review about this book. But finally I made both. This book is all about automating. It is collaborative […]