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VMware vSphere 6.5 Released – Start Your Download Engines

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VMware vSphere 6.5 Released today!!! Start your download engines. The release brings all the new features that have been announced, plus even one which has been only a tech Preview. It is the vSphere Predictive DRS, which uses integration between vROPs where vROPs calculates and predict VM CPU and RAM usage. The predictions are based on […]

VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing PDF

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There has been new VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing paper released. As the offer evolved and the 6.5 of vSAN (now with small “v” have you noticed ?) product release is imminent, VMware is taking care of pushing the necessary information out. As you know, VMware VSAN 6.5 has new technical features too. The 6.5 release […]

How to Hot-Clone a VM and upload to Ravello Cloud

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When willing to upload a VM to Ravello cloud, you might want not to shut down your production VM, because as you know, you only can upload VMs that are not running. What to do? There is a way to do it and I’ll show you how. Basically you’ll need VMware Converter Standalone and clone […]

Starwind Storage Appliance Protects up to 4 disk failures

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Starwind software is well known for their Virtual SAN software I have talked about on several occasions, and newly also about their Hyperconverged appliances (hardware+software) which are pre-configured with your options by Starwind engineers as a “ready-to-ship” systems. But at Starwind they also have another interesting product which provides just storage – Starwind Storage Appliance […]

Stratoscale Symphony – converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management

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Stratoscale Symphony is a hyper-converged solution allowing you to built your own private cloud. Their solution has converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management. It is also multi-tenant. Think of it as a full VMware stack with ESXi, VSAN, and vCloud Director….. but running OpenStack and KVM Hypervisor based. They’re using commodity hardware […]

How-to Update Altaro VM Backup Software

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I was checking the different upgrade options on different backup solutions I’m testing in my lab, and one of them is Altaro. Readers of our blog know that I work in collaboration with different software partners and vendors, to review their products, or to simply report on their features. To see how they behave in […]

VMworld Barcelona 2016 Best Moments

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After a long travel home, I’m still full of excitement, full of impressions and good moments from this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2016. Contrary to other years VMworld this time VMware has announced more “important stuff” here in Europe. VMworld Barcelona 2016 uncovered VMware vSphere 6.5, VSAN 6.5, but also, more importantly (for some) the new […]

VMware VSAN 6.5 – What’s New?

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VMware VSAN 6.5 has been announced! During VMworld US there wasn’t any vSphere 6.5 information coming out. I mean, we were expecting the vSphere 6.5 to come out one day or another, but the information could only be shared today. Here we go. VSAN 6.5 is the 5th generation of VSAN! The 6.5 release of VSAN brings […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Fault Tolerance (FT) Improvements

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VMware Fault tolerance (FT) has historically used vLockstep technology, which had been replaced in vSphere 6.0 by another technology called fast checkpointing. My detailed post – VMware vSphere 6.0 allowing to configure 4vCPU in a FT protected VM.  vSphere 6.5 is pushing things forward and improving this technology even further, especially from a latency standpoint, which […]

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