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VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

Today VMware released minor updates for VMware Workstation (bringing the version to 8.0.4) and VMware Fusion (bringing the version to 4.1.3). These contains a few bug and security fixes. They are available now and are free as usual. VMware Workstation General Issues Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address. On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity. Unity mode would exit…

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Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Today Veeam announced their new major release: Veeam Backup and Replication 6.1. This major release includes several improvements and some interesting new additions. VeeamZIP: Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP. Backup a VM on-the-fly: Instead of running the regular backup job (which typically contains multiple VMs and a specified number of restore points) or creating a new backup job,…

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Great VMUG Belgium Event: The Blogger Edition

Great VMUG Belgium Event: The Blogger Edition

Last Friday, 1 June 2012, the 17th Belgium VMUG event took place. This event had the name “The Blogger Edition” due the impressive agenda! The agenda of this meeting. Technical sessions: RAID types and alignment impact on VMware workloads – Erik Zandboer “Designing a cloud infrastructure” – Duncan Epping and Lieven D’hoore “Beer and PowerCLI: you can’t live without them” – Luc Dekens “HyperV v3.0 vs VMware vSphere 5” – Alex Muetstege & Erik Scholten (VMGuru) “Troubleshooting VDI” – Sven…

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vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide Final Version released

vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide Final Version released

VMware released the final version on their “vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide”. This latest version represents a significant step in the evolution of the guide. Based on feedback from customers and partners, the guide was re-structured from the ground up with the following key aspects: The guide is being released exclusively in spreadsheet format. Many of you have indicated that, although the accompanying text found in previous versions of the guide is interesting, the specific steps for assessment and remediation of…

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VMware PowerPoint Icons and Images

VMware PowerPoint Icons and Images

If you regularly need to make a PowerPoint presentation which contains information regarding VMware there is some good news for you! A few weeks ago the new icons and images were released via the VMware Communities. They are free for download in pptx format and can be found in the original thread which was started by Bob Stephens. Keep in mind that if you use them you always have to add a certain statement in your presentation. This document was…

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