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VMworld Parties to follow
Hans DeLeenheer comments on his blog about VMworld: YES, I will be at VMworld SAN Francisco! And no, I am not coming as a disguised evangelist (yet, as this could still change). There is even more: I’m...
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I Love the VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin comments: Most things in my life that I think are good & excellent are things I started out being very critical of, or at the least greatly disliking. Some of my...
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Successful Backup and Recovery Requires Good Orchestration
Scott Lowe writing for Wikibon comments: One of the reasons I like to attend various industry events is because it helps me to reframe and focus my own thoughts. Last week, at one such event, the...
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Nutanix Platform Professional
Arjan Timmerman from VDICloud.NL comments: Since the Nutanix EMEA team (Ides Van Neuville, Dirk Marichal, Jan Ursi, Patrick van de Werken and Raymon Epping) started, and the team got traction by...
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Nutanix OS 3.5: Deduplication, New GUI, SRM, Hyper-V Support
Bob Plankers writing for The Virtualization Practice comments: Nutanix, one of the fastest growing IT infrastructure startups around, shows no signs of slowing down with their release of Nutanix OS...
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vSphere 5.5 – My Top 10 New Features
Marco Broeken of vClouds comments: Last Monday vSphere 5.5 was announced with a lot of improvements and new additions to. It will still take like 2 months before it will be GA. Here is my Top 10 of new...
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What is VMware NSX?
Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net comments on VMware’s new networking product: Answer#1: An overlay virtual networking solution providing logical bridging (aka layer-2 forwarding or switching), logical...
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Signs of Life for the VMware VMTN Subscription Movement
Chris Wahl from Wahl Network comments: Raghu decided to champion the question by stating that chances of such a program returning are “very high.” I was rather shocked to hear this, as a return of VMTN...
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Tech Field Day Roundtables at VMworld (Simplivity and Commvault)
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes about the VMworld roundtables: Yesterday I attended the second couple of Tech Filed Day roundtables at VMworld, this time I had the opportunity to meet Simplivity and...
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Infinio Presentation at Tech Field Day VMworld 2013
Rick Schlander from VMBulletin writes about VMworld: Infinio is a VMware only – NAS offload engine. It is an in-memory software cache that is intelligent enough to figure out what data is accessed and...
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Tech Field Day Roundtables at VMworld US 2013: SimpliVity
Luca Dell’Oca from Virtual To The Core writes: SimpliVity is a company working in the hyper-converged market, like Nutanix and ScaleComputing. Founded in Boston in 2009, it has now around 100...
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DR preparedness in real time
Ray Lucchesi from RayOnStorage comments: As many may have seen there has been serious flooding throughout the front range of Colorado. At the moment the flooding hasn’t impacted our homes or offices...
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VSAN Part 2 – What do you need to get started?
Cormac Hogan comments about VMware’s new VSAN: This post contains the list of items you will need to get started with VSAN. I’ll also try to highlight some best practices when it comes to configuring...
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Pope Francis and Devops – On Further Genuflection
rsts11 – Robert Novak on system administration comments: We practicitioners in the sysadmin world are surrounded by marketers, headhunters, and opportunistic writers who latch onto different flavors of...
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SimpliVity’s OmniCube: the new converged data center hardware on the block
Lauren Malhoit writing for TechRepublic comments: OmniCube, like other converged data center hardware, has storage and compute built in to the 2U box. It comes in three hardware models: CN-2000 for the...
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I Just Tech Field Dayed All Over My Datacenter – Techvangelist
Ryan Adzima from Techvangelist writes: It’s been a busy 12 months at work and I’ve had my plate full with many, many projects. I’ve been rebuilding, updating, and virtualizing everything in my...
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vSphere 5.5 available for download… hold!
Luca Dell’Oca from Virtual to the Core comments: Yesterday, on Sunday 22nd September VMware released in its website the new vSphere 5.5 suite, just like vCloud 5.5. Many guys already started to...
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Hyper-Threading Gotcha with Virtual Machine vCPU Sizing
Chris Wahl from the Wahl Network comments: Hyper-Threading (HT) is sometimes viewed as the mystical voodoo that enables you to have twice as many logical cores on your physical CPU. Occasionally, the...
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Bye bye Citrix XenServer
Anne Jan Elsinga of The Dutch vMafia comments: As we are in the week of the obituaries, let’s do another one. A few weeks ago when vSphere 5.5 was release I updated our Enterprise Hypervisor...
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Top 10 things you must read about vSphere 5.5
Eric Siebert of Welcome to vSphere-land! comments: There has been so many documents, white papers, videos and blog posts posted about the vSphere 5.5 release that it’s hard to keep up with them all. I...
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