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vCloud Director 5.1 released – what’s new

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vCloud Director 5.1 has been announced during VMworld 2012 San Francisco which started yesterday (for partners). This update is packed with new features. One of the first which caught my attention was the ability to create snapshots from within vCD. This is something that would allow the cloud admins to create, revert or remove snapshots for […]

vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 new features and enhancements

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vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 uses local storage (local disks) to create (simulate) shared storage which is spread through 2-3 nodes. Like this, no need to buy expensive SAN to be able to leverage HA or vMotion. UPDATE: The VSA is part of vSphere Essentials Plus Package. Look at the new vSphere licensing paper (PDF), […]

vSphere Data Protection – a new backup product included with vSphere 5.1

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This new backup product replaces VMware Data Recovery, which has been introduced in vSphere 4.0 and which will still be supported. But from vSphere 5.1 the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is going to be The Backup product bundled with vSphere. The VDP has the most of the code from EMC’s Avamar backup product and in […]

VMware vSphere 5 – Building a Virtual Datacenter

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How to build virtual datacenter from start to finish That’s the point of this book, which has at first has been published in French, and now translated into English. Eric Maillé and René-Francois Mennnecier are the authors of this book. Both authors are VMware vExperts and works at EMC. The book has been published by VMware […]

Xangati Storm Tracker – New cool Feature to detect bottlenecks in vSphere environments

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New feature present in Xangati’s enhanced product detects Storms in the Clouds. VMware has entered the cloud business few years back, and Xangati with new release of Xangati can now help to detect a Storms in the Clouds via new feature called Xangati Storm Tracker. Xangati has developed a way of detecting, recording and alerting […]

Windows 8 RTM Downloads

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Windows 8 RTM download – 90 days trial Microsoft has released the RTM version of their latest OS for MDSN subscribers the 15th of august. You can read about the roll up schedule in my post here, with release for everyone is schedulled for October 26. If you’re not MSDN subscriber or Microsoft partner, you can […]