VMware Labs released a new Fling called Makyo. The download is available as zip package and the total size is about 2MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Makyo lets you copy virtual machines and vApps from one vCenter Server to another using a wizard in the vSphere Web Client. The said copy operation from one vCenter Server to another is done by starting an OVF export operation on the source server and an import OVF operation on the target…
If you are still aiming for VCAP5-DCA this might be some great news for you. Jason Langer and Josh Coen (who have been covering all the objects) decided to create a PDF named “The Unofficial Official VCAP5-DCA Study Guide“. More information about this PDF can be found at the official release blogpost by Josh Coen. You can download it via his blog.
Today VMware announced a new version on their backup product vSphere Data Protection. They gave it the “extra” name called “Advanced”. What is it? vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection – available with all vSphere editions – to provide the most proven, efficient and easy-to-use protection for virtual machines with greater scalability and integration with business-critical applications. Features Besides…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called SilverLining – A vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for JavaScript. The download is available as tar.gz package and the total size is about 6MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: SilverLining provides a vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript. This allows you to build a simplified interface for vCloud Director that works from any modern web-browser that supports HTML5, CSS and Javascript. To demonstrate, there is a reference implementation included which one could use…
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…