Category: VMware

VMware vSphere 5.5 launched

Typical Sod's law..... I've been eagerly waiting to get my hands on vSphere 5.5 ever since VMworld 2013 US - unfortunately I'm not one of the lucky ones who had Beta access or pre-launch access (like some of the more renown VMware bloggers) - and the week that I decide to head off on holiday to … Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.5 launched

VMware Walk-throughs

So, some clever person at VMware has built some awesome walk-throughs of a few of the new features/products that were announced at VMworld 2013. http://vmwarewalkthroughs.com/vCloudSuite5-5/ http://vmwarewalkthroughs.com/VSAN/ There's a solid walk-through of VDP, showing step-by-step overviews of: creating a backup job for a VM using web-client restoring a VM using web-client restoring a VM directly to … Continue reading VMware Walk-throughs

vCloud Director Convergence and Transition Plan

vCloud Director Convergence and Transition PlanVery good blog post regarding how vCD will be integrated with vSphere and vCAC.....So it seems vCD is being phased out of Enterprise customers with vSphere handling the cloud infrastructure and vCAC the automation and cloud management.It sounds like vCD will become a VSPP product specifically aimed at service providers.....

VMware Workstation 10 and Fusion 6 released

New edition of VMware Workstation released: http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/workstation/ What’s New in VMware Workstation 10? Unity Mode Integrated to work with Windows 8.1 Ability to convert a Windows 8.1 physical PC to a VM. Support for 16 vCPUs, 8 TB SATA disks and 64GB of RAM New Virtual SATA disk controller Now supporting 20 virtual networks USB3 … Continue reading VMware Workstation 10 and Fusion 6 released

VMworld 2013 US ends…… so here’s my round up!

So VMworld 2013 has come to an end in the US..... and with no real big announcements, many people may have come away a bit disappointed. But as I mentioned in a previous post, "VMware-the-company" has gone through quite a bit over the past year or so.... restructuring/redundancies, new CEO, new focus..... so you can kind … Continue reading VMworld 2013 US ends…… so here’s my round up!

VMworld 2013: Next-Gen Backup

VMworld 2013: Next-Gen Backup So during my searches online for all things VMworld related, I stumbled across this interesting blog entry by VirtualGeek regarding backups..... always a bane of any VMware admin! It seems that EMC and VMware have shacked up once again and the new features on Avamar 7 shows a tighter integration with … Continue reading VMworld 2013: Next-Gen Backup

VMware Desktop as a Service will be powered by Desktone

VMware Desktop as a Service will be powered by Desktone. More stuff coming out of VMworld in the US..... interesting how vCHS (vCloud Hybrid Service) will actually offer Desktop as a Service where you can push your VDIs into a public cloud provider. As always, the US gets all the goodies before the rest of … Continue reading VMware Desktop as a Service will be powered by Desktone

VMworld 2013 announcements – vCloud Suite

VMworld 2013 announcements - vCloud Suite So there are times when a blogger becomes just pure lazy (ie this is one of those times), so rather than regurgitate everything I've been reading today that came out of the first 2 days of VMworld, I thought it would just be far easier to link to a … Continue reading VMworld 2013 announcements – vCloud Suite