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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Zimbra 8.0 beta released

Zimbra 8.0 beta released

Yesterday VMware made an announcement regarding the upcoming release on Zimbra, bringing the current version onto 8.0. The current beta number is version 5. This release is available as an appliance or as an iso for a full install. This major version got a design revamp and some new stuff under the hood. End Users Seamlessly Connect to Their Personal Clouds Zimbra provides end users with a feature-rich browser-based experience that enables them to seamlessly and securely connect to their…

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New book by VMware: VMware vSphere 5 Building a Virtual Datacenter

New book by VMware: VMware vSphere 5 Building a Virtual Datacenter

VMware announced a new upcoming book called “VMware vSphere 5 Building a Virtual Datacenter”. You can pre-order it now over at Pearson! The rapidly evolving field of virtualization and its many dimensions, can be confusing. This book is definitive practical guide for IT decision-makers and professionals responsible for evaluating, planning, implementing, or managing vSphere 5 in datacenter environments. Two world-class VMware virtualization consultants begin by concisely reviewing the fundamentals of modern virtualization with vSphere 5. They present overviews to the…

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New Fling: Guest Reclaim by VMware Labs

New Fling: Guest Reclaim by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Guest Reclaim. The download is available as zip and the total size is about 1MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Guest Reclaim reclaims dead space from NTFS volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk. The tool can also reclaim space from full disks and partitions, thereby wiping off the file systems on it. As the tool deals with active data, please take all precautionary measures understanding the SCSI UNMAP framework and…

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New course: VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict

New course: VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict

After the FREE training VMware now announced a new training course called “VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict [V5.X]“. This is a 2 day course which can be done online and (live) onsite. Overview This course, for experienced VMware vSphere® personnel, teaches skills for the use of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.0, VMware® vCenter™ Server 5.0, and vCenter Operations Manager 5.0. Objectives Understand major and…

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Fling update: gemcached 0.2 by VMware Labs

Fling update: gemcached 0.2 by VMware Labs

A few days ago VMware Labs released a new update for the gemcached Fling bringing the release onto version 0.2. The download is available as tar.gz and the total size is about 182KB (yes, it is that small). Quote taken from the Fling page: gemcached is a memcached server written in Java that understands memcached’s ASCII protocol and translates it into GemFire operations. At startup, gemcached server starts an embedded GemFire cache. memcached clients can then talk with the gemcached…

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