Last night John Troyer made a new VMTN blog post announcing the vExperts for 2013. I am honoured to be on the list again this year. This is a great community full with experts and VMware fanatics. Each in their own way, either they work for VMware or they evangelize it. This year there were about 850 applications according to John and 575 made the list this year. Some funny things in the list: There are 2 people named Scott…
VMware finally released an update for vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 which resolves the SSO login bug (KB for this issue). This release replaces the 5.1 Update 1 download so make sure you replace your 5.1 Update 1 ISO with the 5.1 Update 1a ISO! Keep in mind that there are some things that still won’t work, for a clear explanation check out the KB. Happy updating!
The cat is finally out of the bag. Veeam has already announced 7 features for their upcoming release in Q3. They have been teasing everyone with 2 additional features whom nobody would ever guess. It was kept a secret for a long time but they finally announced them! WAN replication for Backup Copy Jobs Backup from storage snapshots Let’s take a look at them a little closer. Keep in mind that this information is subject to change before the final…
Veeam has announced their seventh feature for version 7 on Backup & Replication: Virtual Labs for Replicas! This new feature adds some work for your replicas. Veeam already had SureBackup but with the upcoming release they add SureReplica and even more! Veeam clearly thinks out of the box with this. People asked for SureReplica which would be the same function as SureBackup and so Veeam made this possible in version 7. Veeam is now even bringing all the powerful capabilities…
VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi and vCenter 5.1 which has some major improvements, bug and security fixes. I am very happy to see that we can now start using Windows Server 2012. What’s new? vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 vCenter Server now supports the following databases. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 vCenter Server now supports customization of the following guest operating systems: Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 Ubuntu 12.04…