Horizon FLEX 1.5 now shipping
Yesterday VMware announced that Horizon FLEX 1.5 is now available for shipping. At the beginning of this yea version 1.0 was released and a few months later version 1.1. With version 1.5 already here now you can see that VMware is really putting in time and…
VMware Horizon 6.1.1
At the end of last week VMware released the latest version of VMware Horizon 6.1.1. The version number would suggest that this update contains only minor changes or bugfixes, but in fact has some very nice new features. Client Drive Redirection Users can share folders and…
VMware VSAN reusing SSD disks
Ealier this week I’ve been configuring a new VSAN cluster. The old configuration was using hardware that wasn’t complying with the VMware vSAN HCL. We ordered new raid controllers and HDD’s and reused the SSD disks, as those where compliant with the HCL. Adding and configuring…
VMware App Volumes 2.7 goes GA
Today VMware announced App Volumes 2.7 to be general available. VMware App Volumes is a real-time application delivery system that enables Enterprise IT to instantly deliver applications with complete application lifecycle management. VMware App Volumes provides seamless end-user experience while reducing infrastructure and management costs. Some…
Nakivo Gives Away v5.5 NFR Licenses to VMware Professionals
Nakivo provider of virtualization data protection software, is providing free Not for Resale (NFR) licenses to VMware professionals: current VMUG members, VMware vExperts, VCIs, VCPs, VTSPs, and VSPs can receive an NFR license of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5.5. The NFR license keys are available…
VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 GA
Last week VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 was announced to be General Available. This release of vSphere PowerCLI introduces a number of new capabilities and expands on the existing cmdlets introducing single console access allowing you to easily connect to vCloud Air and enabling…
VMware Horizon View 6.1 Released
VMware released version 6.1 of Horizon View. With this latest release VMware adds six new key advancements. These new capabilities will help you deliver unlimited access to desktops and applications at lower costs with better performance (think 3D performance) and at unprecedented scale. These enhancements will help…
vCenter availability with SMP-FT?
In june of 2014 VMware announced that vCenter Heartbeat would be discontinued. The product would not be available for purchase, support will remain until september 19 of 2018. VMware has chosen to readdress availability options to protect vCenter Server from outages based on internal availability solution…
New VMware Hands-On labs have arrived!
Yesterday four new Hands-on Labs where announced. Two of which are related to the new products (vSphere 6 and Virtual SAN 6) announced last week. HOL-SDC-1408 – The Introduction to Virtual SAN 101 lab has been renamed to What’s New with Virtual SAN 6. This lab is…
VMware Fling – Horizon Toolbox
Recently, VMware updated the Horizon Toolbox, a fling for Horizon. The Horizon Toolbox was formally known as the “View auditing portal” and acts as an extension to the Horizon View Administrator (Horizon 6.0 or above is required). This new web portal offers several functions that…
Webinar: How to build Microsoft Scale-Out File Server
Microsoft Scale-Out File Server is a new efficient storage solution for Hyper-V and SQL. SoFS uses SMB 3.0 to eliminate all the complexity of traditional shared storage and leverages the clustering capabilities to maintain true storage high availability. While most of the vendors show how…
Webinar: Building a Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster
Join the Experts from 5 nine Software and StarWind Software in a session on the creation of cost effective and highly available Hyper-V cluster. Join them to continue receiving the essential insight and valuable information on: Building The Highly Available Hyper-V Cluster on Free Microsoft Hyper-V…
Webinar: Protecting Virtual Machines Using Data Replication
With a need for 24/7 operations, protecting virtual machines in ways that minimize downtime is an essential requirement for all IT departments. Data replication is a key tool that enables virtualization administrators to deliver continuous operations in virtual server environments by protecting virtual machines. There are…
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5 released
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5 was released this week featuring Flash VM Boot, which provides the ability to run VMware VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated VM backups. Nakivo Backup & Replication NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a complete data protection feature set for virtualized environments,…
VMworld Europe 2014 Day 2 Highlights
My second day started with attending the general session. This session mostly focused on some use cases told by SAP and Vodafone. Also demos that give a somewhat more in-dept view of the products that where announced on day 1 where shown. I think…