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Month: December 2012

Minor VMware updates released on December 20

Minor VMware updates released on December 20

VMware announced some updates for several products: VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.2 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 VMware vCloud Connector 2.0 VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 What’s New Not much new here. Mostly support for additional guest operating systems and some resolved issues. For more information read the release notes. VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 What’s New This release offers the following…

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Happy Holidays from Veeam with the Veeam dream lab!

Happy Holidays from Veeam with the Veeam dream lab!

Christmas and New Year are coming and Veeam decided to give away another great gift in December! Enter for a free chance to win – and WIN BIG: TWO HP ProLiant ML 310e G8 Servers NETGEAR ReadyNAS storage system with 4 SSDs drives HP V1410-16G Ethernet switch TechNet Plus subscription for 1 year Online course, books and test from VMware Education Services or Microsoft Learning …and a MICROSOFT SURFACE! You can enter by filling in this form.

Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

After upgrading a server to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.04) and the vSphere SDK for Perl to the latest version one of my scripts started running into a problem giving me a SOAP request error. After digging into the update logs I found that this problem happened due Net-HTTP being upgraded to 6.05 (from 6.03), after a downgrade to 6.03 the problem was resolved. You can downgrade by running the following command.

DELL EqualLogic SAN Headquarters v2.5 released

DELL EqualLogic SAN Headquarters v2.5 released

DELL released a new SAN Headquarters version, this is an update towards the v2.2 release which is dated back to October 2011. SAN Headquarters enables you to monitor multiple PS Series groups from a single graphical interface. It gathers and formats performance data and other vital group information. Analyzing the data might help you improve performance and more effectively allocate group resources. DELL EqualLogic SAN Headquarters Version 2.5 supports the following new features: SAN Assist SAN Assist is a new…

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Veeam webinar: building bi-directional DR and backup

Veeam webinar: building bi-directional DR and backup

Veeam has a nice upcoming webinar on december 18th called “building bi-directional DR and backup for the business”. This is a case study with VCDX and vExpert Joep Piscaer. Virtualization adds some challenges when it comes to disaster recovery (DR). DR procedures just aren’t the same in a virtualized environment as they are in a physical one and they require a different approach. Join VMware VCDX and vExpert, Joep Piscaer, during this one-hour webinar as he highlights the most important…

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