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The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide

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The Official VCP 5 Certification Guide – prepares you for VCP510 exam. I saw the first announce about this new book – The Official VCP5 Certification Guide book – through a VMworld Video, where Eric Sloof did a book signings interviews with the authors. If you haven’t already saw those videos, you can have a lok […]

New VMware Certification Roadmap

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There has been new VMware Certification announced during VMworld 2012 San Francisco. Vmware is introducing new cloud certification and rebuilding a new certification roadmap. What’s new? A lot. Even the “old” VCP has become a fancy VCP-DCV (datacenter virtualization). So I’m VCP5-DCV now… -:). But Let’s see what’s changed and how the new VMware Certification Roadmap can […]

Licensing VMware – Further Reading

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As I already wrote in my article TOP vSphere 5.1 features where you had the possibility to learn about some cool new features introduced in vSphere 5.1. In addition, no more vRAM – good news. Just per-CPU-licensing… But there are other changes to the licensing of other products especially with the announce of the vCloud Suite, where […]

Coolest VMworld Videos

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I’ll try to collect in this article some best, and coolest videos of products presented during VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. One of the first innovative products which took my attention was VMware Mirage. An upcoming product which will be able to manage user’s profile (with data) from central location. Very storage efficient by using […]

Starwind iSCSI SAN 6.0 Released and Enhanced with VMware Backup Plugin

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Starwind SAN 6.0  – New release of Starwind’s popular iSCSI SAN software enhanced with VMware Backup Plugin This release came just in time for VMworld 2012 San Francisco. There is a new release of popular iSCSI SAN software – Starwind SAN 6.0. This software solution enables to use Windows Servers to create fault tolerance clustered […]

vSphere 5.1 licensing – vRAM is gone – rather good news, any more?

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vRAM is gone, so the licensing starts to became more healthy as well. Rather sarcastic, but correct, IMHO. VMware had to react concerning the vRAM, because Microsoft Hyper-V v3.0 is at the point to be released (it’s already RTM – read my article on that). Having a licensing packages more healthy comparing to the competition, […]

Top VMware vSphere 5.1 Features

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vSphere 5.1 features has been unveiled. There are enhancements and new features in every level of the vSphere Suite. There are changes at the product level ( new products, like VDP ), features level ( Virtual hardware v 9, VXLAN, Space Efficient Sparse Disk format – New  ….) there are changes at the licensing level (no “vRAM […]

VMware SRM 5.1 and vSphere Replication – New release – 64bit process, Application Quiescence

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With the release of VMware vSphere 5.1, a number of other VMware products got updated to the release 5.1. One of them is VMware’s replication product VMware Site Recovery Manger 5.1. One of the major (and great) news for SMB customers is that SRM now supports vSphere Essentials Plus editions as well. Stays the requirement […]

vSphere 5.1 Networking – New features

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VMware vSphere 5.1 brings enhancements to the vDS. There are quite a few. The new version of vDS is version 5.1. Network health check can verify your physical network before deploying vSphere, to see, if the setup of the physical network will assure the deployment of VMs. Scalability: vSphere 5.1 supports more dvPortgroups, more dvports […]