This content is 6 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.
This content is 6 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
This content is 6 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
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
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
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”.
This content is 7 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
This content is 7 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
This content is 7 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.
This content is 7 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
This content is 7 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
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),
This content is 8 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
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Like many people I follow with interest, amusement and sometimes consternation the war that is waged by proxy between the two main virtualization contenders: VMware and Microsoft. VMware, the market leader, weighs in with the
This content is 8 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Here's a light one to end the week in a good mood! Expect no complex engineering though, PowerCLI scripts to manage snapshots must be very common around! I manage a small environment where uber-scripting skills