This is just a very short blog post since i want to let you know that VMTurbo has once more decided to contribute to the virtualisation community in a great way. By joining the VMTurbo 5.1. release webinar February 19:th at 1:30 PM EST (7:30 CET) via this link you will actually get a chance to …
Last year i saw the vExpert announcement the 1:st of April and decided to wait until i received the official email from VMware before publishing the VMware vExpert 2014 blog post:) This year the announcement were made the 5:th of February at the official VMTN blog post which can be found here. I really glad and proud of bening …
A very short blog post to inform you about the Nutanix .Next Community Podcast initiative that was launched December last year. This is a great source for staying ontop of what’s happening in the web-scale and datacenter technologies. There will be both Nutanix employees and external guest speakers during the weekly 30 min sessions. Please …
As many of you know i have been using the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) in my home lab for years now and in some customer (both production & test) environments as well. It doesn’t require a Windows installation since it is just a virtual appliance (VA) and deployed as a ova or ovf. However, the deployment …
Another short blog post on the vSphere 6.0 theme. This one will describe the new features and the configuration options for the new virtual machine (VM) virtual hardware version 11 that comes with ESXi 6. Configuration 128 vCPUs 4 TB RAM to 12 TB RAM (depending on partner) 62 TB VMDK size ? (not yet …
Just a very short blog post with some of the vSphere 6.0 maximums. Most of my customers does not even come close to the vSphere 5.5 configuration maximums but a few of them were pretty close considering they run some pretty intensive workloads and large cloud environments. One thing that has been discussed as a potential …
This is the third part of the new vSphere 6.0 improvements and or new features blog series. The first part covered the vMotion improvements and can be found here and the second part covered the vSphere Fault Tolerance feature and can be found here. VMware vSphere 6.0 documentation page including release notes, installation documents, upgrade documents, component …
This is the second part of the new vSphere 6.0 improvements and or new features blog series. The first part covered the vMotion improvements and can be found here. VMware vSphere 6.0 documentation page including release notes, installation documents, upgrade documents, component documentation and so on can be found here. This part of the blog series …
There are a ton of new features and improved features in the release of vSphere 6.0 and my intention is not to go through all of them and make yet another release note copy. VMware has put together a vSphere 6.0 documentation page that includes all the information you require in terms of release notes, …
I’m really happy to announce that Trilead has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Trilead was founded for the purpose of providing a simple solution for back-up and disaster recovery in virtualised IT environments that runs on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Download the Trilead VM Explorer factsheet here to read more about …
Yesterday, 2015-01-28, Nutanix released Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.1. This means the general availability (GA) version of the NOS family 4.1 is now available for all our customers via the Nutanix Portal. The previous GA release was 4.0.2.2. The reason for the version number, 4.1.1, is that the 4.1 has been provided as an early …
So yesterday, 2015-01-27, VMware released vCenter Server U2d. Quite a lot of minor versions being released for this version but the latest one was actually U2b and not U2c. The latest release now includes the following components: vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d | 27 JAN 2015 | Build 2442329 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d Installation …
While standing up a vRealize Automation (formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) 6.2 environment a few days back i received an error when trying to connect an external vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.2 (vCO) soon to be renamed to vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to the vRA Advanced Services.
This year i’m closer than ever to attend the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) since i’ll be in Canada working with some cool Nutanix, Horizon View, vRealize Automation and vRealise Orchestrator stuff:)
So a few days back while preparing for this weeks job i failed to deploy a OVF in my vSphere environment. I have had problems in the past with, back in the vSphere 5.1 days but haven’t seen it since. The error i received was: I was running the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) version …
This is great news for all the VMware User Group (VMUG) members and potential new members. When signing up for a VMUG Advantage you will not only get the traditional benefits but you will also receive a 365-day evaluation license for the following selected VMware products: VMware vCenter Server™ 5 Standalone for vSphere 5 VMware …