Posts tagged "vmworld"

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VMworld US 2013: The Day 2 Buzz

Aug 27, 2013

Carl Eschenbach, VMware's President and COO filled Steve's well regarded shoes extremely well, great energy and an exciting feeling. Kit Colbert, Chief Architect and Principal Engineer with the Office of the CTO also took part. Kit and Carl (the new comedy duo!) did a great demo together looking at vCloud Automation Center for deploying applications in the private, public or hybrid cloud with...

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VMworld US 2013: The Day 0 Buzz

Aug 26, 2013

The 1st part of VMworld US kicked off today in San Francisco starting with the TAM day with sessions tailored for VMware’s TAM enterprise customers rather than the general sessions for other attendees. I flew in yesterday from London and headed to the social start of VMworld at ( at ( There were so many people from the VMware global community so it was great to meet new people and catch up with...

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VMworld US 2013: The Day 1 Buzz

Aug 26, 2013

VMware’s huge US conference kicks off in San Francisco today. 22000 attendees are expected to attend to "Defy Convention" The day started with the General Session by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger in his first solo performance after he was handed the reigns at VMworld 2012 from Paul Maritz. The year's theme of "Defy Convention" is VMware's challenging to its customers and the industry to look at thei...

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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 Orchestrator

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: ( vCenter Orchestrator has a generous update to be optimised for bigger and better clouds with significant improvements in scalability and high availability. There is now a more simplified and efficient development experience...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCenter Server and ESXi

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: ( vCenter Server has been tweaked with this upgrade keeping its two deployment options, installed on a Windows Server or as an appliance. VMware is strongly recommending using a single VM for all vCenter Server core component...

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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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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Virtual SAN (VSAN)

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: ( Virtual SAN (VSAN) is one of the highlights of the new vCloud Suite 5.5 and is a really strong push further into VMware’s vision of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). VSAN was ( when it was then called VMware Distribu...

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