Virtualization Changes Everything
Today Veeam announced 2 more features in flagship Backup & Replication v7.0. The new version now contains 9 new awesome features: Enhanced Backup & Recovery for vCloud Director Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs. vSphere Web Client Monitor backups and backup … [Read more...]
10ZiG announced their first WE8 Thin Client, the 5818v. This device is using a new D2550 dual core Intel Atom Processor and therefor has a extremely low power consumption. The 5818v comes with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 16GB of local storage, 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet and Intel GMA 3650 graphics. This extremely small form factor WE8 Unit, the 5818v, offers dual monitor support as standard, is VESA mountable, and has optional internal 812.11b/g/n wireless. After unboxing and powering on the … [Read more...]
Along with the release of NexentaStor 3.1.4, Nexenta Systems today officially released the NFS VAAI beta plugin for VMware vSphere 5.x via the community NexentaStor.org forums. VAAI-NAS is still not widely supported in the NAS world, and of those that do, not all support all the primitives. You can search the VMware Compatibility Guide for vendors that are VAAI-NAS certified. Quick Tutorial Here’s a quick tutorial to install the agent in NexentaStor and the plugin in VMware ESXi. ** … [Read more...]
As a new Tintri Partner and Tintri Certified System Engineer number #101, I decided to take a closer look at Tintri Storage. Tintri granted me access to their partner lightning lab and I got some hours to spend on this amazing piece of storage hardware to play around and see first hand what it was all about. Being one of the first companies with VM-aware storage, Tintri is ahead of the game by far. VMware is also pushing the adoption of VM-aware storage with their upcoming virtual … [Read more...]
I was struggling with Auto Deploy recently. I wanted to use the Auto Deploy GUI on my lab environment which is currently version 5.1 and this was not YET supported… Just found out there is a brand new 5.1 version which you can select from the dropdown: Features The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some … [Read more...]
View Pool Manager is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups. One of the biggest challenges VMware View administrators face in large deployments is desktop pool maintenance. Commonly each desktop pool has Active Directory security groups with the number of users a given desktop pool will support. As employees leave/join the organization, security groups require maintenance to ensure the number of users in each group … [Read more...]
Today John Troyer (@jtroyer) – Social Media Chief and Community Evangelist @VMware opened the gates for a new round of vExpert Nominations. To apply you need to nominate yourself and describe all the hard work you have put into the VMware community last year. This itself is not that easy to do… try to remember what you did last year… The past couple of years we have seen the number of vExperts increase from 252 back in 2009 to 326 in 2011 to 434! vExperts in 2012. I wonder how much … [Read more...]
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter Server. It provides the following benefits to your virtual environment: An integrated platform for managing VMware and third-party hypervisors from a single interface. A hypervisor choice for the different business units in your organization to accommodate their specific needs. No single hypervisor vendor lock-in. What's New The VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor … [Read more...]
The Dutch are true Virtualization Evangelists seeing the number of VMware vExperts, bloggers, presenters, book authors etc. For such a small country the number of vGeeks is impressive. Blog postings from the family of Dutch bloggers grouped in Dutch vMafia are now centralized in a site named DutchvMafia.com with one goal: World Domination through Virtualization! You better put this website in your favorites or one day one of the vMafia member will put a pig head on your doorstep! You have … [Read more...]
The top bloggers 2013 voting results are out again! My blog moved up from 149th to 38th place! Amazing! I must say I’m quite happy with the result and this really pushes me to write more original content and do less reviews. The time it takes to really write good content amazes me every time. Especially when you have kids, busy day job, lots of friends… it seems almost impossible to get good blogs up here. Thanks everyone who votes on vClouds! A big thank you goes out to Eric Siebert for … [Read more...]
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