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LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance by Kemp Technologies

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LoadMaster VLM Virtual Appliance – install and configure. KEMP Technologies is a load Balancing specialist offering both virtual and hardware-based solutions. For the virtual appliance, VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, Workstation, Player and Server along with Xen and Hyper-V are all currently supported. The virtual appliance can be downloaded HERE. Today we will focus on the […]

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 […]

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 […]

PHD Virtual Backup 6.0

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PHD Virtual Backup 6.0 – Backup, Restore, Replication and Instant recovery. PHD Virtual has released their new version of backup software for VMware vSphere environments. PHD Virtual backup 6.0 comes up with several completely new features. Those features that are specific to virtualized environments. In this review I’ll focus more on those new features instead […]

Top 5 Free tools for VMware and Hyper-V

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Veeam Software continues to innovate and create great tools for VMware and Microsoft admins. There has been always some great free tools in the past present on Veeam’s website. (Remember FastSCP?). I think it’s time to recap which free tools are available, since recently two of those tools are just standing from the crowd… actually […]

Dell Appassure 5 Backup, Replication & Recovery Software Review

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Dell Appassure 5 Review Dell Appassure 5 is a new product that was announced on our website several days ago in this article. Today we will be looking under the hood and do an installation, configuration and brief test in our lab. The Dell Appassure 5 is designed to backup, replicate and recover Windows systems—both […]

Cisco UCS Training from TrainSignal – my review

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The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Training from TrainSignal done by Jason NASH has been here for a while. I had the occasion to learn through this training and as a result I’ll try to report on it through this article. I must say, that I did not have a chance to touch Cisco UCS before, […]

Trilead VM Explorer 4 product review

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New version of VM Explorer from Trilead – v. 4.0 which supports VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Trilead is now part of Microfocus software. So Trilead VM Explorer is not developped by intependent developpers by rather a Microfocus team. Trilead VM Explorer 4 has been released few days ago and I have been asked to do […]

Virtual Platform Solutions

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VM Storage Perfomance. Today’s virtual environments demand constant application of effort towards maintaining the highest possible service levels with no overhead. Existing physical storage investments are not yielding their optimal benefit due to file system limitations at the OS level, and inefficient resource allocation leads to frequent service bottlenecks. The V-locity® 3 virtual platform disk optimizer bridges […]