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Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate for 8 Bay NAS devices with 5 Years Warranty

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Number two of hard disk drives, Seagate, launching new product line of hard disks targeting enterprise NAS devices with up to 16 disks. The principal competitor , WD with their line of WD Red were only available for NAS devices having up to 4 HDDs. Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate shall have more capacity and larger cache (p […]

VMware Workstation 11 Released – With up to 45 percent performance improvements

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VMware Workstation 11 has been released! The product has added latest OS and enhancements which on latest Haswell CPUs can make a significant difference with up to 45 percent performance improvements. UPDATE: You might want to check the VMware Workstation 12 and 40 New Features post !!! Latest virtual hardware 11 (vmx-11) is present in Workstation. […]

VMware Tools Heartbeat Options And Application Monitoring Possibilities

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VMware Tools heartbeat is used by vSphere High Availability (HA) checking if VM is in running state. You must first enable it at the cluster level. There is a choice of disabling, enabling for VMs or enabling for VMs and Applications. The VMware tools heartbeat is sent to host and if host does not receive […]

Saber 1000 Series By OCZ announced with up to 960Gb – Drains only 3.7 watts of power in active state

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A new enterprise classe SSD’s called Saber 1000 Series were announced by OCZ Storage Solutions (a Toshiba group). Three models with capacities 240Gb, 480Gb and 960Gb were announced, with a very efficient 3.7 W of power in active state. The drives are SATA based devices with an interesting feature allowing centralized management of multiple devices […]

VMturbo Operations Manager 5.0 Adds Network Control Module and More

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VMturbo just released v 5.0 of their flagship software – VMturbo Operations Manager. The product matured over time with important releases but the 5.0 has added an important one – network control module.  VMturbo places automatically workloads communicating often, together in order to minimize east-west traffic and reduce latency. One could achieve the same using […]

StorMagic SvSAN 5.2 for VMware and Hyper-V Has Also Write-back caching (SSD)

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StorMagic has been around since few years now and in the past their simple approach for mirroring data with two ESXi hosts was one of the solutions that I’ve been looking at to for small environments. The recent release of StorMagic 5.2 brought also some more data services like Write-back caching (using SSDs) or Data Migration between […]

Zentyal Server 4.0 – full AD and MS Exchange Integration

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Zentyal Server 4.0 is major release of this popular distribution which more and more has the capability to replace Microsoft services inside of the enterprise. The 4.0 release which went out few days back offers native Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory compatibility. The distribution is packaged via latest Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (Trusty) distribution, but can be installed via […]

6.4 TB of Data on Single SSD Backed by Internal RAID – Upcoming model of NVMe SSD from OCZ

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If you have passed by the OCZ stand (Now part of Toshiba Group) during this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2014 you could have probably spotted a new upcoming SSD drive they were showing up. the format was like the classic 2.5′ format, but twice thicker. Destined for the enterprise customers, the drive will use new connector […]

SSD Storage Closer to CPU – That’s Memory Channel Storage by Diablo Technologies for Next Gen VSAN

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During this year’s VMworld in Barcelona 2014 I had an opportunity to be part of Tech Field Day Extra organized by Steven Fosket (@sfosket). It was my first Tech field day (hope not last one) and I was present together with other candidates on this presentation from Diablo Technologies. They’re working on Memory Channel Storage […]