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 Private Cloud Computing- a new book
New book in preorder at Amazon. This new book written by Simon Gallagher, who is a creator of vTARDIS system. vTARDIS is basically a Single -box-server running nested ESXi hypervisors. The goal of such configuration is learning. Learning vSphere infrastructure, learning networking when you’re on a budget. Simon got awarded last year at VMworld Europe […]
vSphere 5 – Clean ESXi 5.0 Installation video from my lab
My turn to show an installation of ESXi 5.0 in my lab. In this video I’m showing clean installation of ESXi 5.0 in one whitebox from my lab. I do a clean installation of ESXi 5.0 (beta release), so I’m whipping my previous ESXi 4.1 from that USB stick. I do it in purpose just […]
ESXi 5.0 vRAM entitlement changes
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 […]
vSphere License validator Demo video
vSphere Licensing Advisor. This blog post has been updated: With the recent licensing policy changes at VMware, the validation process of vRAM entitlements can be verified through a PowerCLI script. The recent policy changes lifted some limitations to CPU and CPU cores, but introduced new vRAM pool licensing the vRAM allocated to running VMs. The […]
vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite introduced
The bar was raised today to level 5 with new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. Of course there is many new features introduced which you might read on all the other blog post articles, but I will choose some of them which is interesting in my point of view. Some of the features for the SMB market […]