vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide After several drafts, the final vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide document has been released. The new thing is that this time it comes in a spreadsheet format only (as an xlsx). It’s because apparently people ending by putting the text into spreadheet format anyway…. The vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide document is […]
Windows 8 and Server 2012 Release Preview available for download
There is a new release preview available for Windows 8 and also Windows 2012 Server The very controversial release of Windows 8 is coming. This time it’s the RC version which we can test. Usually as a VM by using Free VMware Player, VMware Workstation or as an Datacenter VM directly on your ESXi host. I say […]
Highest-Level Security Certification for vSphere 5
Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) for VMware vSphere 5 VMware vSphere 5 has been awarded with an advanced security certification. VMware has worked with Corsec Security, Inc., and CGI in order to achieve this certification. CGI Group has got an acredited lab which was necessary to complete the evaluation. Common Criteria does […]
VMware vDS is not that complicated – see the video
VMware vDS – Distributed Virtual Switch. The new free video has come out from the latest TrainSignal Training course called vSphere Advanced Networking. This training focuses on networking, and especially on those more advanced networking features which are present in vSphere 5. One of them is vDS. vDS compared to standard virtual switch is managed and configured […]
Tintri VMstore 1.4 will bring new scheduled snapshots and VAAI for NFS
Tintri VMstore 1.4 – new features announced. I was able to assist to a demo of a new version of Tintri VMstore 1.4. If you don’t know Tintri, I would like quickly introduce you to a storage vendor company which creates some really cool and fast enterprise-class storage with mixed disk systems (SATA + SSD). […]
Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use
Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test or development environments. OVF is supportet through different VMware products, like vSphere, […]
ESX Virtualization Blog as a hobby, communication tool and a business
IT Writer, Blogger, Expert ….. the IT Guy. This ESX Virtualization Blog has started a few years ago as a simple bookmarking site. As an IT guy, I needed to have my bookmarks online to remember stuff, configuration of different products and also have the latest Free tools referenced somewhere. That’s why an ESX Virtualization website […]
VMware vSphere Advanced Networking – New training
There is a new training from TrainSingal that has just been released called vSphere Advanced Networking. This training focuses on networking, and especially on those more advanced networking features which are present in vSphere 5. You’ll learn some more advanced topics from networking which you might not even use, or haven’t used. Topics like port […]
Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive or Dropbox – which one to choose?
Which one to choose from? Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive or Dropbox? Google just announced Google Drive – a new service for online storage, similar to Dropbox or Skydrive already present on the market. I will try to sumarize each of those services with the pros and cons to see what is the best offer today. Also […]
5 interesting KB articles for vSphere 5
Small selection of VMware Kb articles, that I found useful. vSphere 5 FAQ: VMFS-5 – In this KB article you’ll see what’s changed since vSphere 4, what you’ll get if you upgrade and how to proceed with the upgrade. Also you’ll learn why switch to VMFS-5, how to troubleshoot the upgrades and how to check the VMFS-5 partition […]
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