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Month: August 2012

VMware 4.1 Update 3 released

VMware 4.1 Update 3 released

After the vSphere 5.1 announcement VMware also released a new update on vSphere ESXi 4.1, ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1. What’s new? Support for additional guest operating systems: This release updates support for many guest operating systems. Resolved Issues: This release also delivers a number of bug fixes Updated VMware tools: Update 3 contains the latest version of VMware Tools Updated vSphere client: Update 3 contains the latest version of the vSphere Client Supported Upgrade Paths for Host Upgrade…

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What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1

VMware announced vSphere 5.1 at VMworld 2012 US. VMware also released a short video about “what’s new”. What’s new? Enhanced VMotion: Leverage the advantages of vMotion (zero-downtime migration) without the need for shared storage configurations. Perfect solution for SMB. Zero downtime VMware Tools Upgrade: VMware clains that after you upgrade to the VMware Tools available with version 5.1, no reboots will be required for subsequent VMware Tools upgrades. vSphere Web client:Say goodbye to the old C# client and hello to…

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Video: VMware Horizon Mobile for iOS

Video: VMware Horizon Mobile for iOS

VMware announced their new mobility platform at VMworld 2012 US, called Horizon Suite. They showed a demo on Horizon Mobile for iOS during the keynote. The video can now be found on YouTube. The demo shows how it can securely deliver workers the set of applications and data they need regardless of the devices they use including iPads and iPhones. Also in this demo you will see that copy/paste isn’t allowed and will be blocked by the application. Horizon enables…

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New VMware Certifications coming up

New VMware Certifications coming up

VMware has announced new certifications at VMworld. The new certification structure should help to test individuals in line with their job role (Architect, Engineer Administrator, Developer, & Governance/Operator) and solution focus (Cloud, Datacenter Virtualization, End User Computing, & Cloud Application Platform). The biggest change is that their will be 3 types of VCDX certifications now. The new roadmap is easy to understand and there are quite some certifications which you can collect: The complete list of current and pending VMware…

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vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

With the new release on vSphere 5.1 VMware also released a new backup tool called vSphere Data Protection (VDP). This will replace the previous tool called vSphere Data Recovery. With this tool VMware will compete with other third-party software vendors like Veeam and PHD. What is it? vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a new disk-based backup and recovery solution which is released as an appliance (again based on SuSE Linux 11). This solution is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server…

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