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My VCAP5-DCD experience

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A guest post by Jose Luis Gomez, @pipoe2h The past 29th November I took my VDCD510 exam in Seville. It started at 10:00 and along of 4 hours and 25 minutes I responded 100 questions and without the option for review later.  I didn’t pass the exam. The maximum score is 500, and the minimum […]

Veeam SAN Explorer for HP 3PAR – Individual Item Restore

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Veeam just announced the upcoming new integration with HP and will include SAN snapshot recovery for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage. Veeam SAN Explorer for SAN snapshot will be able to leverage the SAN snapshots provided by HP SAN device to recover individual files from VMs stored on the SAN, or recover full VMs very fast, […]

VMware Certification Path updated

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VMware Certifications – New look and free PDF. VMware Certification path has changed few months back. It’s worth to mention that the The VMware Education site got new redesign. The certification structure change about which you were able to read about in my earlier post – New VMware Certification Roadmap, you have multiple choices to specialize […]

vMotion – VMware Storage vMotion and Enhanced vMotion

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vMotion is one of the best features when it comes to VMware and it’s virtualization technology. With the latest vSphere 5.1 version, an additional  – enhanced vMotion has been added to the long list of features that keeps VMware ahead of the competition. So not only “standard” vMotion, storage vMotion, but also enhanced vMotion are […]

Default VM Compatibility Level in VMware vSphere 5.1

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VMware vSphere 5.1 has introduced Virtual Hardware version 9 (vmx-09). With the latest hardware version, VMs can have up to 64 vCPU, 1Bt of RAM or hardware accelerated 3D graphics (VMware View only). Together with VHV (virtualized hardware virtualization) improvements and less reboot requirements (from the vmx-09 and onwards), the overall management of versioning of […]

Virtual Machine – all you need to know

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I have been asked many times by non techie folks about what is virtual machine. I know that for the readers who follow my blog,  the question might be inappropriate, but for those of you who does not know what is virtual machine and want to know simple answer, read on. Experienced virtualization users won’t […]

VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

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VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 released. VMware has released VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager version 1.0 today. Managing several hypervisors through a single pane of glass, that’s something that quite expected today, and it seems that VMware has reacted by publishing new plugin for VMware vSphere 5.1 called VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Plugin (MHM). This plugin […]

The enterprise journey to the vCloud – Building Cloud platform using vCloud director

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There are many interesting articles about building a Cloud platform using vCloud director, creating network pools, preparing hosts and ensuring your allocation settings are correct. All good stuff for vAdmins. Now consider the business application person. He has experience with the application from a previous role at another company. He knows it will revolutionise his […]

VMware Hands-On Labs Public Beta Interest List

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VMware Hands-On Labs for Public Beta Interest List has been opened. VMware Hands on labs remotely? That is something that everybody is waiting for.  This remote labs will be accessible to test different VMware technology without the need having physical lab at home or nested ESXi lab running on your laptop – you could certainly read […]