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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 […]

VMware VCAP6 Exams Are Back!

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Good news. VMware Changed back and brought back certification path for VCAP6 exams, which were previously replaced by VCIX level.  Yes, VMware VCAP6 exams are back. It’s very good news as those VCAPs were fairly popular because of their name and difficultly. Not only that It sounds great “VMware Advanced Certified Professional” but also the […]

Windows Server 2016 licensing moves from per Socket to per core licensing model

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There has been an information released concerning the upcoming release Windows Server 2016, especially the licensing. The Windows Server 2012R2 has already brought about 26% higher licensing costs than the 2008R2 release, and now higher-cores servers will be affected with this move. Licenses for servers with 8 cores or less per proc will be same price […]

Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

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I was playing with the latest beta of Veeam Backup and Replication v9 in the lab, and did the installation, including the separate install for the console. I thought that you might want to check out the video that I recorded. I must say that I like the UI. It’s clean, fast and responsive. But […]

VMware VSAN for ROBO Two Node 10 GbE cross-connect support

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I somehow ignored this information but I think that it’s very useful to share, especially if you’re navigating the SMB or very SMB sector. In fact, VMware VSAN for ROBO Two Node 10 GbE cross-connect support. So you have the possibility to cross connect ROBO nodes, via low-cost 10GbE option and have a great performance […]