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24 vCPU VMs with almost native performance on Fujitsu’s servers running vSphere 5

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This Info comes up from Vroom! blog from VMware. It seems that the first tests from VMware partners comes up and shows that having some monster VMs can be beneficial for applications like SAP. In fact, Fujitsu has tested 2 systems, one which has been running on physical server, and another one within VMware vSphere […]

Learn more about the new release of Starwind 5.7

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Starwind 5.7 – with 3 times faster HA functionality and more…  New Webminar What’s New in StarWind 5.7: The First Stage of Implementation of a New HA Architecture. When? Wednesday, August 10 2:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM GMT) During this webinar, Max Craft, StarWind Senior Systems Engineer, will discuss the new features of StarWind 5.7 […]

ESXi 5.0 vRAM entitlement changes

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VMware vSphere 5.0 vRAM entitlement has changed. The new vRAM entitlement introduced few weeks ago was really not popular and this community thread which has nearly 100 pages is the witness.  But it’s over now. The vRAM entitlement went up considerably (it’s been doubled in some cases) and even the small percentage of customers which […]

VMware Fusion and Workstation Coupons

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30% Off: New promo for VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation This new promo code works for VMware Fusion 3.1 and for VMware Workstation 7.1. In addition, if you buy VMware Fusion with an subscription for 12 months, you can benefit an automatic update to next major release. VMware Fusion 3.1 plus Subscription — Protect your […]

VMware vSphere 5 performance enhancements whitepaper

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Best VMware vSphere 5 performance enhancements. In this whitepaper there are discussed and presented the best performance enhancements which brings VMware vSphere. Besides the CPU enhancements, the paper discuss the interesting SSD Swap Cache, which was introduced in ESXi 5.0 and which permits to configure the redirection of those swapped-out memory pages rather on SSD local drive instead […]

VMware View Administration Training – My Review

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VMware View Training by Trainsignal. I have already announced that the VMware View training was released in my recent post, but now after I watched the whole course, I can finally report what is my impression. The training is done at a very professional way by Brian Knudston. Brian is an expert, look at his […]

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] Training Course by VMware Education

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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] will be available at 29th of August. The VCP – VMware Certified Professional is one of the most appreciated exams in the IT industry. The VCP 5 has been announced last week. Yes already. The new Training Course provided by VMware Education will become obligatory for VCP 4 holders […]

vSphere 5 – New High Availability Agent Introduced – FDM

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Another new feature in vSphere 5 is the way it’s handled the HA process. There is no more AAM agent like in vSphere 4.1. Instead, there has been a new agent introduced which is named FDM – Fault Domain Manager. The Primary/Secondary concept with 5 primary nodes which has been known in vSphere 4, is […]

vSphere 5 – vCenter as a linux VM

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VMware vSphere 5 brings new possibility to install and configure vCenter in a Linux VM. The solution of having vCenter deployed through a simple OVF package without paying an additional license to Microsoft is tempting and encouraging. Especially for smaller customers, which aren’t on the Microsoft OVS package.  Also being able to protect this VM […]