This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Yesterday I finished watching the excellent Pluralsight “Designing VMware Infrastructure” course by Scott Lowe. I had taken a lot of notes on Google Docs while watching this course and I now wanted to push these
Virtualization Digest: three articles you should read today
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind. Here are three links to articles/blogs/KB entries you shouldn’t let escape you today: VMware Security Blog: VMware products and the Heartbleed OpenSSL issue, CVE-2014-0160 – Thanks to Manish Patel for bringing this along Veeam to offer
Thoughts about the VCAP/VCDX bootcamp in Milano
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Yesterday on Monday, April 7th 2014 I had the honor to participate in the VCAP/VCDX Bootcamp organized by John Arrasjid (VCDX-001) and Mostafa Khalil (VCDX-002). The bootcamp took place in Milano, Italy, at VMware HQ.
The real value of our community
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.When I started writing this post I thought it would be time to write the mandatory “Thank you for being a vExpert this year post” with all the mandatory acknowledgements. This year, while I was of
VMware VSAN goes GA – vSphere 5.5 U1 Released
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.As VMware VSAN goes GA (General Availability), VMware released today vSphere 5.5 Update 1. The update is downloadable here (don’t try it with Siri!) and contains the following noteworthy changes/improvements: VSAN GA code (no longer a
My two cents on Cisco storage strategy
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Today I’ve had the opportunity to comment on Enrico Signoretti‘s blog post about Cisco’s storage strategy and their new UCS Invicta (Whiptail) solution. In his blog post, Enrico expresses a very similar opinion as the
Personal considerations on the evolution of the storage industry
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hey guys, I’m back after a 6 months long hiatus. Lots of work, illness, stuff to sort out, well it’s been a bumpy ride but thankfully there have been some successes, too. Today I want
Get your Tweet-sized vSphere Design Considerations Pocket Guide!
This content is 7 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’m very proud to announce that a tweet-sized vSphere design consideration I submitted in the beginning of June 2013 was deemed relevant and will be published in a pocket book titled “Tweet-sized vSphere Design Considerations”.
vTalk Series #2 – Interview with Pietro Piutti
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Welcome back to the vTalk interviews! This week’s vTalk session is dedicated to Pietro Piutti (@stingray92), an italian virtualization professional who is very active in the VMware Community (and not only!). Hello Pietro, before I
vTalk Series #1 – Interview with vExpert Karel Novak
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hello all, so first of all apologies if someone has already come with the vTalk name, I’m not very original today and that’s the only thing which came to my mind 🙂 I would like
VMware launches vCenter Log Insight
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Yesterday, VMware announced the availability of a new product, VMware vCenter Log Insight. If browsing through various ESXi and vCenter logs was turning into a nightmare for you, this will most likely ease up your work.
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS and 5.0 Clustering Deepdive Kindle version are available for free!
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.A great initiative from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman, their two excellent books: VMware vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS and 5.0 Clustering Deepdive Kindle version are available for free! I have bought those two books in the
Update – VMware vExpert 2013
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Dear readers, it’s been a long time since I’ve been actively posting on this blog, the reasons being mainly important changes in my life, both professional and personal. First of all, I’ve switched from Systems
Migration from ESX 4 to ESXi 5
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Hello everyone! I hope you've had a nice summer time and enjoyable holidays as well! No such fun times for me, because (if you don't know – which means you don't follow me on twitter),
A fairy tale in IT horror land: activation of MS Office 2010 on Windows Server
This content is 9 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.In the course of our work, we are all faced at a point with the necessity to implement "solutions" that are against nature and common sense. I invite you to take a journey on a