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Month: January 2013

New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

New White Paper: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Performance and Best Practices

VMware released a Technical White Paper about VMware vCloud Director 5.1 which contains Performance and Best Practices. The document is about 28 pages. You can download it here. VMware vCloud Director 5.1 gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. vCloud Director 5.1 helps you…

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VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 released

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 released

VMware has finally released the vCenter Support Assistant. This is a really amazing free (!) product which will greatly help you create and manage a support case, a feature request,… And because of the smooth integration it will save you some time in the end ;-). What is it? VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 is a free (!) plug-in for vCenter Server. It provides an easy-to-use and secure interface for creating and managing support requests. The big extra with this…

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NAKIVO announces free Backup & Replication for VMware

NAKIVO announces free Backup & Replication for VMware

NAKIVO Inc., the leader in affordable VM backup solutions, announced today the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Free Edition. The Free Edition enables local, remote, and cloud backups for operational, archival, and portability purposes, as well as VM copy and migration. News Facts The Free Edition provides a quick and simple way to make ad-hoc backups of running VMs for operational, archival, and portability purposes. VMs can be backed up locally, remotely over WAN, or to Dropbox –…

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New book by VMware: The Official VCAP5-DCD Cert Guide

New book by VMware: The Official VCAP5-DCD Cert Guide

VMware announced a new upcoming book called “The Official VCAP5-DCD Cert Guide”. You can pre-order it now over at Pearson! Are you aiming for some extra certifications in 2013? Is VCAP5-DCD one of them? This book will help you on your journey. It is aimed to be released in June 2013 and will contain about 350 pages full of information. This exam is the one of the next steps after achieving VCP5-DV. Some more information regarding the exam: Exam Number:…

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Free training: VMware Security Solution Fundamentals

Free training: VMware Security Solution Fundamentals

VMware announced a FREE online training course called “Introducing the VMware Security Solution Fundamentals“. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 1 hour and it’s available through myLearn training. This free eLearning course provides the background information needed to work with the products included in the VMware Security Solution. The course begins with a review of basic security methodologies and how virtualization affects security. References for follow-on reading are provided for students less familiar with these concepts. Next, the…

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