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London VMUG presentation: Hands on with vSphere 6.0

Apr 23, 2015

I warned about the vast amount of incorrect information currently on the interwebs as the architecture and recommended layout changed from the Beta to the released product so make sure what you are reading is up to date. This particularly relates to VMware not recommending you run an embedded PSC if you need to link even two vCenters together but rather have an external one which requires a loa...

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HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2015.04.0 released, includes vSphere 6.0 support

Apr 17, 2015

HP server users may be glad to know that HP has released the latest update to its Service Pack for Proliant which will be supported until April 30, 2016. vSphere 6.0 support has been added so super-keen upgraders now have HP driver and firmware to match. This latest SPP has added support for: Release Notes are here: (ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/doc/p1205445419/v108284/2015.04.0-SPPR...

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CommVault: We're not just a backup company but we don't like telling you

Apr 8, 2015

I was very fortunate to attend ( earlier this year. One of the companies presenting was ( who bill themselves as a "data" company. They spent the majority of their time at Virtualisation Field Day going through all the details of how they can do backups and restores and to be honest it was rather dull. Backups are hugely critical to your infrastructure and just like insurance you don't want to...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Certificate Management

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ VMware is at last tackling the nightmware of managing vSphere certificates in a more holistic way. Things were relatively simple until VMware started splitting up t...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Enhanced Linked Mode

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vCenter Linked Mode provides a single management overview of multiple vCenter instances. Linked Mode also provides a single login for multiple vCenter Servers and t...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Finally Announced (at last!)

Feb 2, 2015

1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( "What’s New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Data Center") (removed from release) 7. ( 8. ( "What’s New in vSphere 6.0: Cross vCenter and Long Distance vMotion") 9. ( 10. ( 11. ( Finally, the time has come for VMware to publicly announce its latest update to version 6.0 of its ever growing virtualisation platform, vSphere. It's been a rather strange and somewhat convoluted...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Networking

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vSphere networking hasn't had any huge additions in this release. This is partly to be expected as VMware's networking messaging is mainly revolved around NSX for now.

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: NFS Client

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for all details of all the components._ NFS has been available as a storage protocol since 2006 with ESX 3.0 and vSphere has been using NFS version 3 for all this time. There's been no update to how N...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: CommVault

Jan 8, 2015

( is happening in Austin, Texas from 14th-16th January and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( is a data company (what backup companies also now call themselves) and has previously presented at ( and ( Calling Commvault just a backup company isn’t a little disparaging as their software aims to do a lo...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Dell

Jan 8, 2015

( is happening in Austin, Texas from 14th-16th January and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( Dell is the strappy direct selling IT upstart that became a big enterprise hardware and software vendor and is hugely interesting at the moment. First of all, it has just been through its 1st year of being a p...

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