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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).
vSphere Storage Appliance update: v5.1.1 released

vSphere Storage Appliance update: v5.1.1 released

VMware released a new update of the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA). This new release (bringing the version to 5.1.1) contains mostly bug fixes but adds a few new (interesting) things. VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.1 provides a distributed shared storage solution that abstracts the computing and internal hard disk resources of two or three ESXi hosts to form a VSA cluster. The VSA cluster enables vSphere High Availability and vSphere vMotion. What’s new Support for multiple VSA clusters managed by…

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Veeam Backup And Replication 6.5 released

Veeam Backup And Replication 6.5 released

Today Veeam announced their new major release: Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5. This major release includes several improvements and some interesting new additions. Overview E-discovery and item recovery for Exchange: Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange Restore from SAN snapshots: Veeam Explorer for SAN snaphots (only HP StoreVirtual VSA and HP Lefthand snapshots) vSphere 5.1 support Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support Advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning Additional enhancements Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 support Improved engine and performance Configuration…

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New Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1]

New Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1]

VMware announced a new training course called “VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.1]“. This course can be followed by attending a classroom, live online or onsite. The course lasts 2 days and it’s available through myLearn training. This course is intended for the following audience: System administrators IT managers System architects People responsible for implementing or managing vSphere environments Overview This hands-on training course explores new features in VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.1. Topics include VMware vSphere®…

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Now available on the App Store: VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal

Now available on the App Store: VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal

  VMware released a free app today called “VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal“. The app works on both iPhone and iPad. The Mobile Knowledge Portal gives you access to VMware marketing and technical content. Use the application to watch installation videos, read product whitepapers, and learn best practices. Stream or download content at home, in the office or on the go. Stay up to date on the latest news and content related to VMware.

VMworld 2012: INF-VSP1252: What’s New with vSphere 5.1 – ESXCLI & PowerCLI

VMworld 2012: INF-VSP1252: What’s New with vSphere 5.1 – ESXCLI & PowerCLI

Session abstract In this session Technical Marketing automation experts William Lam and Alan Renouf will take you through What’s New in ESXCLI and PowerCLI for the vSphere 5.1 release. In this session Alan and William will take you through the exciting features available to use when automating VMware products, both beginners and experts will learn how to use new features to make your life easier and more productive. The session The session was split into 2 parts, first William talked…

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