A new free learning resource from VMware has recently made its apparition. After VMworld 2019 US announce with project Pacific, about the integration of Kubernetes directly into the heart of vSphere and ESXi, it’s time to learn more about Kubernetes. Kubernetes academy is a completely free online training resource available to anyone. Kubernetes Academy courses […]
Vembu Essentials Edition – Backup VMware and Hyper-V VMs at just $1.8/month
Vembu technologies have a new offer which allows you to use their solution for data protection for just $1.8/month. That’s pretty appealing but there might be a catch. We’ll have a look at their offer today – Vembu Essentials Edition – and see whether it has a true value for customers. Vembu uses a web-based […]
VMware vRealize Operations 8.0 Announced
VMware announces vRealize Operations 8.0 announced during VMworld US. This new tech-preview release which will be demoed during VMworld, but the product itself will ship Q3/Q4 2019. The product has new support for Workload optimization for VMware VSAN. It is “re-sync” aware as well. They’ve added the VMware Cloud on AWS, so you’re able to […]
VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.0 Announced!
VMware is announcing a new update with vRealize Network Insight 5.0. Again, this is a new major release coming up, which they just announced during VMworld 2019 US. The product has matured and opens to multi-cloud environments and also NSX-V and NSX-T environments. The previous 4.2 release has brought for example Zoom-In feature to visualize […]
VMware NSX-T 2.5 Announce
VMware announces NSX-T 2.5 during VMworld 2019 US. It is another big release for VMware with this popular product which becomes more and more mainstream. The shift from NSX-V to NSX-T has started with the 2.4 release (our detailed post about 2.4 release is here) and the introduction of a new set of wizards allowing […]
What is VMware Test Drive?
VMware allows you to test products in different ways. The most common is to download a trial version of the software and install it in your lab or use the bits to create a nested environment in your lab using your desktop computer and VMware Workstation (or Player) software. However, there is also a new […]
PerfOps Data Platform – Introducing FlexBalancer
PerfOps is a SaaS platform that offers a complete set of tools to optimize and analyze your internet infrastructure. It is a young startup which provides smart data and monitoring services via an innovative and cost-effective product. In this post, we will introduce PerfOps Data Platform and their new FlexBalancer. They have recently announced a […]
Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs?
Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]
Top 3 Free Software from StarWind
StarWind software has been around for a very long time. Over the years, they’ve always kept some of their software and utilities free to download and use. In this post, we’ll list Top 3 Free Software from StarWind where some of them might be useful in your environment. As an IT admin, I always like […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.0 Beta – Download Now
Nakivo is one of the data protection vendors who are very active in what they do. They are pushing often new releases to stay up to date with the latest VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, but they also add new features with every release. With the latest beta, they step into the backup of […]