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VMworld Barcelona – VMturbo Operations Manager Video

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VMturbo is present during VMworld Barcelona 2012 with it’s latest release of VMturbo Operations Manager 3.2 which has broaden the hypervizor support. Read my latest post about VMturbo here: VMturbo Operation Manager 3.2 with Red Hat 3.0 support, OpenStack integration and more. In addition, a new self service provisionning support enables the users to place new VMs directly […]

vCloud Connector 5.1 – What’s new?

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vCloud Connector 5.1 with Improved Workload transfer, new UI and features. vCloud Connector 5.1 which has been announced during VMworld 2012 in Barcelona, brings new features and new user interface. This release of vCloud Connector brings also 2 versions – Free Basic Edition, and Advanced Edition (included in the vCloud Suites). There is many more news […]

Veeam Explorer for Exchange – VMworld Barcelona 2012 Demo

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Veeam Explorer for Exchange presented by Rick Vanover. I passed by the Veeam’s stand and Rick Vanover from Veeam was able to show me a quick demo of new cool feature (yes feature) that will be built into Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5. Just download the trial and play with full version during 30 days. After 30 […]

VMworld Barcelona

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This year’s VMworld Europe is held in Barcelona. Great, since the weather is definitely warmer than in Copenhagen last year. I’ll be blogging from the conference. I’m attending as a Blogger again this year. Thanks to VMware and John Troyer for the opportunity of free blogger pass. You might already noticed that the PDF guide for […]

New vSphere Web Client Search Capabilities

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vSphere Web client Searches – use them to fast access the objects you need. With the vSphere 5.1 availability since yesterday, many of you has already installed in a lab the new vSphere 5.1 web client. Remember, it’s only through the new vSphere 5.1 web client you’ll be able to test the new enhanced vMotion, for […]

The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide

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The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide – prepares you for VCP510 exam. I saw the first announce about this new book – The Official VCP5 Certification Guide book – through a VMworld Video, where Eric Sloof did a book signings interviews with the authors. If you haven’t already saw those videos, you can have a lok […]

Licensing VMware – Further Reading

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As I already wrote in my article TOP vSphere 5.1 features where you had the possibility to learn about some cool new features introduced in vSphere 5.1. In addition, no more vRAM – good news. Just per-CPU-licensing… But there are other changes to the licensing of other products especially with the announce of the vCloud Suite, where […]

vSphere 5.1 licensing – vRAM is gone – rather good news, any more?

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vRAM is gone, so the licensing starts to became more healthy as well. Rather sarcastic, but correct, IMHO. VMware had to react concerning the vRAM, because Microsoft Hyper-V v3.0 is at the point to be released (it’s already RTM – read my article on that). Having a licensing packages more healthy comparing to the competition, […]

vSphere 5.1 Networking – New features

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VMware vSphere 5.1 brings enhancements to the vDS. There are quite a few. The new version of vDS is version 5.1. Network health check can verify your physical network before deploying vSphere, to see, if the setup of the physical network will assure the deployment of VMs. Scalability: vSphere 5.1 supports more dvPortgroups, more dvports […]