Posts tagged "vcd"

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Introduction

Aug 26, 2013

I would say that this is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary update being the third major release in the vSphere 5 family (5.0,5.1,5.5). There are however some significant storage additions such as Virtual SAN (VSAN) and VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash) as well as a new vSphere App HA to provide application software high availability which is in addition to vSphere HA. VMware has also respon...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCenter Server SSO

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Evolving vCenter is a major undertaking as it was originally built as a monolithic platform with everything included in one place. VMware’s strategy is to pull out all the core central services from vCenter and have them ru...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCloud Director

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vCloud Director Virtual Appliance The vCloud Director Virtual Appliance is still only to be used for PoC and Eval use for simple deployment and setup. With the appliance you can choose to use an internal/embedded database o...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCloud Networking & Security

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is used to bond your physical network uplinks together to increase bandwidth, have better load balancing and improve link level redundancy. vSphere5.1 supported a simplified version...

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HP Virtual Connect in tunnel mode breaks vCloud Director Network Isolation (vCDNI)

Mar 21, 2013

VMware and HP have both released advisories which say you shouldn't use HP Virtual Connect in tunnel mode if you are using vCloud Director Network Isolation (vCDNI) which is MAC-in-MAC encapsulation. There are two network modes available with Virtual Connect, Tunnel Mode and Mapped Mode. When using Tunnel Mode, Virtual Connect passes all tagged and untagged packets through the Virtual Connect s...

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Get the fantastic VMware reference posters

Sep 17, 2012

Unless you are a photographic memory super VCDX you probably don't have every single ESXi command line, PowerCLI Cmdlet or vCloud Networking construct available in memory. Luckily for the rest of us normal people, VMware has released some fantastic posters detailing these topics in an easy to grab format which you can download for your pleasure. They are large format .PDF posters so you can pri...

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Looking into the future at VMworld

Aug 13, 2012

This will be my first time attending VMworld US as living in London I have attended VMworld Europe previously so am excited to see the differences, enjoy the bigger conference and meet some more fellow vExperts and other community members. There's obviously a huge amount that goes on at the conference from the keynote speaches, breakout sessions, panel discussions, labs, formal and informal mee...

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VMware PowerCLI 5.01 released adding vCloud Director Automation

Jan 10, 2012

VMware has released what at first looks like a minor update to their PowerShell snapin, ( Although just a .01 release which brings the usual changes and bug fixes which are listed ( the big news is that VMware has added a whole bunch of cmdlets for managing vCloud Director. A whole new snapin has been created called VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and this initial release focuses more on the report...

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