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Remote Desktop Protocol 8.0 update for Win 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1

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Microsoft RDP 8.0 free update for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008R2 SP1. With the recent release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has introduced Remote Desktop Protocol 8.0 in those products. If you want to take advantage of using RDP 8.0 on Windows 7SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, you can do […]

vSphere Client – SSH Auto Connect to ESXi

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vSphere Client – SSH AutoConnect plugin for avoiding entering root password every time. This plugin is for vSphere client and its provided and maintained by a french collegue blogger VMDude.fr and enables you to connect to your ESXi hosts without leaving your vSphere client (the Windows one). There is also the possibility to setup per-host […]

Cisco Nexus 1000v Training

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There are some offers available for Cisco Nexus 1000v training. This training will help you to learn the inside out of Cisco Nexus 1000v switch. Jason Nash the instructor, already done few other training courses for TrainSignal: Cisco UCS, which is very good. I have reviewed this course here. VMware Advanced Networking vSphere Security Design, […]

Tintri Demo VMworld

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Tintri VMstore Demo. If you don’t know Tintri or you not sure, you can have a look at this Tintri demo video from VMworld Barcelona 2012, where all the Tintri’s features will be showed. This video should have been published right from there but with many things to do and watch when you’re attending the show, it happens […]

vSphere 5.1a Released together with vCD 5.1.1 and many more new products updates

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VMware products line Update. The vSphere 5.1a release has been released yesterday. The release updates many of the vSphere 5.1 components. Not only vCenter 5.1a, but also many others software appliances and vCloud suite products. You can upgrade to this version of vCenter Server from the following previous versions: –  vCenter Server 4.1, 4.1 Ux – […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5 has been released

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It’s been some time that every Veeam user has been waiting for this upgrade of Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5. This release brings compatibility with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Microsoft Server 2012 or Windows 8 running as a VMs in VMware vSphere 5.1. Also, Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5 support Hyper-V 3 as a virtualization […]

vSphere 5.1 Network Rollback and Recovery

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vSphere 5.1 Network Rollback and Recovery – how to video from VMware TV. Another cool video on VMware TV, which will show you one of the new features introduced in networking in VMware vSphere 5.1. It’s the Network Rollback and Recovery, which enables you to prevent misconfiguration of the management network in the vSphere Distributed Switch. […]

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator released

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Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Microsoft has released tool to convert VMware VMs to Hyper-V VM. After being 6 months in the beta, the Microsoft’s VM converter is finally available. I don’t think that many IT admins will use it, but still, it’s worth to talk about, since it can only get better. The tool is called […]

VMware vSphere 5.1 Networking Backup and Restore Video

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vSphere Distributed Switch 5.1 can be backed up, or restored. Not only the vDS and Port groups configuration can be backed up and restored in case of vCenter DB corruption, but we can imagine scenarios of deployment of network configurations on remote labs, or isolated environments. The network config backup is exported into a ZIP […]