What's New in VMware vCloud Director 1.5 (NTPRO.NL)
In vCloud Director 1.0, VM provisioning operations resulted in the creation of full clones, delivered to users within minutes through a simple web portal. With the enablement of linked clones in...
View ArticleWhat's New in VMware vShield 5 (NTPRO.NL)
For vSphere-based environments, vShield solutions provide capabilities to secure the edge of the vDC, protect virtual applications from network-based threats, and streamline antivirus protection for...
View ArticlevSphere 5 What's New - Image Builder and Auto Deploy (NTPRO.NL)
Auto Deploy is a new method for provisioning ESXi hosts in vSphere 5.1. At a high level the ESXi host boots over the network (using PXE/gPXE), contacts the Auto Deploy Server which loads ESXi into...
View ArticlevSphere 5 What's New - Profile Driven Storage (NTPRO.NL)
So what does Profile-Driven Storage try to achieve? Very simply - minimize the amount of time required to provision virtual machines. Provisioning virtual machines isn’t only just selecting a random...
View ArticleWhat's New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 (NTPRO.NL)
vCenter Site Recovery Manager builds on the core properties of VMware vSphere that already provide basic protection of applications. Site Recovery Manager is a product that simplifies and automates...
View ArticlevSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite introduced (ESX Virtualization)
The bar was raised today to level 5 with new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. Of course there is many new features introduced which you might read on all the other blog post articles, but I will choose some...
View ArticlevSphere 5: What’s in Enterprise Plus? (virtualfuture.info)
One of the most popular posts on VirtualFuture.info is about licensing vSphere 4 and the difference vSphere 4 Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Apparently, the information is hard to find or not simply...
View ArticlevSphere 5 and new licensing – Good or bad? (vNinja.net)
As many of you did I watched todays Cloud Infrastructure Forum and the release of vSphere 5 today. I was very excited with many of the features such as Storage Profiling, Storage DRS, VMFS 5 release,...
View ArticleReal-World Clouds Built on Cisco and NetApp (The Virtual Storage Guy)
Feeling inspired by a conversation over lunch on day 1 of Cisco Live with Walz Group Chief Information Security Officer Bart Falzarano. In just 20 minutes Bart outlined not just his company’s...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 1 - VMFS-5 (VMware vSphere Blog)
One of the primary objectives of Storage enhancements in 5.0 is to make the management of storage much simpler. One way to do this is to reduce the number of storage objects that a customer has to...
View ArticleNew Book - VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive (video) (NTPRO.NL)
I’ve recorded a short interview with Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman. They have released their new book “VMware vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive”. This book is available at Amazon in full...
View ArticleWhat's New in vSphere 5.0 Whitepapers (Uptime)
Since Roger Lund already mentioned on his blog, I figured now's as good as of time as any to mention these whitepapers we created. These are a series of whitepapers made by the Technical Marketing...
View ArticleVMware announces vSphere 5 (VMGuru.nl)
Today VMware had planned a webcast named ‘Raising the bar. Part V’. It was a public secret that they were going to announce VMware vSphere 5 and indeed they did. But on top of that VMware also new...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive Book - Available (Krystaltek)
The second book in the Deepdive series from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman is now available. For months these guys have been working tirelessly on the detail on this book. I know there were many late...
View ArticleXenDesktop says goodbye to vSphere? (virtualfuture.info)
In a lot of VDI deployments VMware vSphere is used as the hosting platform. There a couple of reasons that you can think of about why this is: The company uses VMware vSphere as a platform for...
View ArticleSessions for VMware vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite (VMTN Blog)
Wow, after a content-rich announcement of products and features around VMware vSphere 5 and the Cloud Infrastructure Suite, there is a lot to consume -- a lot to digest -- and a lot to share. Be sure...
View ArticleLicensing in VMware vSphere 5 (Think©Loud)
With the new vSphere release VMware also updated the licensing for this release. The diagram below gives a graphical representation about what features are included per vSphere edition. As you [...]
View ArticlevSphere 5 – New Training Courses: What's New [V5.0] and VCP5 (NTPRO.NL)
With the release of vSphere version 5.0, VMware will also offer two new training courses. These new training courses are still in beta and will be released when vSphere 5.0 becomes general available....
View ArticlevSphere 5 What's New - High Availability (HA) (NTPRO.NL)
VMware HA clusters enable a collection of ESXi hosts to work together so that, as a group, they provide higher levels of availability for virtual machines than each ESXi host could provide...
View ArticleNew VMware licensing explained (VMGuru.nl)
With the introduction of VMware vSphere 5, VMware introduces a new licensing model. VMware will retain a per processor model but they removed some restrictions which were in the vSphere 4 licensing...
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