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VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs

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VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

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In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]

Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support

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Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]

vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight

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There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, […]

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

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VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]

Run Nested ESXi in AWS or Google with RavelloSystems

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Ravello Systems is a company allowing to use nested virtualization in the cloud. Instead of investing into a costly homelab, you might be interested into their advanced nested virtualization engine allowing you to run nested ESXi host and VMs on the top, through Amazon AWS or Google. Ravello was born in 2011 from folks working at […]

vRealize Automation 7.0 Released

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A big release last week from VMware – A vRealize Automation 7.0 which has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. It took VMware finally several months to release the full product (the demo I saw was just before the Barcelona 2015 event). The product has simplified deployment (single OVA file) and has many architectural changes needing to […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.5 – Prepare Environment for Horizon (with View)

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This is a very important chapter VCP6-DTM Objective 1.5 – Prepare Environment for Horizon (with View). As without the proper setting of your AD groups, AD organizational units (OU), vCenter users (and priviledges) the environment will not meet the requirements and some components might not work correctly or users will get too many priviledges and perhaps […]