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Stratoscale Symphony – converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management

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Stratoscale Symphony is a hyper-converged solution allowing you to built your own private cloud. Their solution has converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management. It is also multi-tenant. Think of it as a full VMware stack with ESXi, VSAN, and vCloud Director….. but running OpenStack and KVM Hypervisor based. They’re using commodity hardware […]

How-to Update Altaro VM Backup Software

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I was checking the different upgrade options on different backup solutions I’m testing in my lab, and one of them is Altaro. Readers of our blog know that I work in collaboration with different software partners and vendors, to review their products, or to simply report on their features. To see how they behave in […]

Nakivo Backup and Replication 6.2 Embracing Amazon AWS

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After this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2016 announce from VMware and Amazon collaboration on native VMware infrastructure running at Amazon AWS, Nakivo is another vendor which expands their product with Release of Nakivo Backup and Replication 6.2 (release notes here) allowing to back up paid AWS EC2 instances, sold through the AWS Marketplace. It seems that many vendors […]

VMworld Barcelona 2016 Best Moments

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After a long travel home, I’m still full of excitement, full of impressions and good moments from this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2016. Contrary to other years VMworld this time VMware has announced more “important stuff” here in Europe. VMworld Barcelona 2016 uncovered VMware vSphere 6.5, VSAN 6.5, but also, more importantly (for some) the new […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 and Veeam B&R for Office 365 Details

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I had an occasion to speak to Clint Wyckoff from Veeam Software, during the VMworld Barcelona 2016. This year’s show is much more rich on announcements from VMware side. I’m sure you could read my post about What’s new in vSphere 6.5 already. Veeam, on the other hand, is “cooking” their 9.5 release which will […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 details and demo

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During VMworld Barcelona 2016 I had an occasion to pass by the Zerto booth and check what’s new. Zerto v 5.0 is in preparation, to be released later this year. And I also already blogged earlier with some other details in my post here. The latest version of Zerto 5.0 can simultaneously replicate a VM […]

VMware VSAN 6.5 – What’s New?

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VMware VSAN 6.5 has been announced! During VMworld US there wasn’t any vSphere 6.5 information coming out. I mean, we were expecting the vSphere 6.5 to come out one day or another, but the information could only be shared today. Here we go. VSAN 6.5 is the 5th generation of VSAN! The 6.5 release of VSAN brings […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Fault Tolerance (FT) Improvements

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VMware Fault tolerance (FT) has historically used vLockstep technology, which had been replaced in vSphere 6.0 by another technology called fast checkpointing. My detailed post – VMware vSphere 6.0 allowing to configure 4vCPU in a FT protected VM.  vSphere 6.5 is pushing things forward and improving this technology even further, especially from a latency standpoint, which […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Announced !!

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VMware vSphere 6.5 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona! This is an unusual year for VMware as usually the biggest announcements are kept for VMworld US, but this year is exactly the opposite. VMware vSphere 6.5 is the main piece of communication through VMworld Europe (VMware like calling this show VMworld EMEA). Check our dedicated […]