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VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN performance

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VMware VSAN which has been introduced during VMworld 2013 in SF allows to use local disks together with local SSDs (for acceleration) to create a pool of storage visible to all hosts in the cluster as a shared datastore. The product is not available yet. Here are some news about some cool management tools are showing […]

VMware Certified Associate – (VCA) Additional VMware Certification Announced without mandatory training

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VMware has announced new certification to the already crowded number of certifications. There is four VMware Certified Associate (VCE) certification. And with good news is that there is no obligatory training in order to pass those certifications and get the VCE certification! Which certifications are available? VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud) VMware Certified Associate – Data […]

PCIe XP941 Samsung SSD – 1.4GB/second.

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The limit of 6Gb/s of the SATA III is just surpassed with the latest technology from Samsung. The code release is XP941 and it’s a PCIe flash card which delivers impressive 1.4GB/second sequential read speed, and most importantly, it’s not a sample. The mass production has already started and it seems that it’s already shipped with the […]

New training – EMC Storage Essentials. Haven’t tried TrainSignal yet?

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TrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but using the whole TrainSignal’s online library with massive amount of training courses covering networking, virtualization, compute, or office […]

VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) Advanced Training Course to prepare for VCAP5-DCA Exam

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TrainSignal has released a new training course for VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1, which can be used as a preparation to pass VCAP5-DCA Certification exam. The VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) dives into the advanced topics which is advanced storage management, storage connectivity and multipathing, VLANs and PVLAN management, vDS, Optimizing and tuning vSphere performance or advanced […]

Virtual Hardware 10 Present in VMware Workstation 2013 Tech Preview, plus more…

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The news has come out few days back, that VMware Workstation Technology preview 2013 is available for testing. Anyone can download and test the Tech Preview of VMware Workstation with Virtual Hardware Version 10 (or vmx-10) which will be (or should be) part of the final release. Each major step forward in Virtual Hardware version introduces […]

vExpert 2013 announced – 580 vExperts!

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John Troyer has announced this year’s vExpert 2013 awards through the VMTN blog. This year – the largest group of vExperts (580). People with passion to VMware technology. The news that just came were expected by many people from days or weeks. The official e-mail did not arrived yet, but the Twitter World went crazy […]

PHD Virtual 6.2 CloudHook – Product Review

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PHD Virtual has updated their backup product PHD Virtual backup & Replication, to enable IT administrators leverage cloud storage directly as backup destination. PHD Virtual CloudHook is the latest update. The newest feature allows to setup cloud storage as a backup destination, directly from within the UI. The product is able to backup VMs directly […]

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