27 juin 2013

What is VMware Virsto and What Does it Do? Since VMware’s acquisition of Virsto earlier this year, many customers and folks in the community have expressed a great deal of interest in the product. Since so many folks have requested more information about the product, I’ve decide to write a series of in-depth blog articles that will discuss VMware Virsto’s capabilities, benefits, and targeted use cases for the product. VMware Virsto is a software-defined storage solution design to optimize the use of external block storage in vSphere... [Lire la suite]

For VMware Horizon View it is recommends that you configure your VMware View Horizon Servers with a signed SSL certificate. Default when you install a VMware View Horizon servers, a certificate is generated that is not signed by a CA. Because it is not signed by a CA It is possible to to intercept traffic. So it is highly recommend to replace the default certificate with a signed certificate after the installation. In the VMware View Horizon Administrator dashboard you can see that the Connection Server does not have a valid signed... [Lire la suite]

Microsoft made available another update of a fix which improves cluster resiliency. I lost count now but believe this is the fourth try of Microsoft to fix a number of issues which are storage related. One of the readers of my blog applied this latest hotfix KB2848344 and wrote me: I’ve applied this fix on 2 nodes in a two node HV failover cluster. (LAB based on iSCSI shared storage)DPM2012SP1 with latest rollups is still not able to backup a single VM on this cluster.DPM encountered a retryable VSS error… KB2848344 is titled... [Lire la suite]

A commonly requested thing that people ask for from vSphere Replication is more consolidated reporting.  You can set alerts in vCenter to key off of various things that surface from vSphere Replication, but it is not exactly a consolidated list when doing so.  What people are looking for is a common interface to pull together *just* vSphere Replication alerts for things like RPO violations. My good friends and colleagues Alan Renouf and Lee Dilworth have identified a really elegant way to pull this... [Lire la suite]

“I hear and I forget, I see and remember, I do and I understand.”  This Confucian proverb may hold an important key in addressing today’s IT skills gap. According to the 2013 Gartner CIO Agenda Report, of the 2,053 CIOs surveyed, more than half reported shortages in talent relating to key digital technology skills, including enterprise architecture, business intelligence and analytics, security and risk management, and IT strategy and planning. I’ve talked before about the importance of continued education for IT... [Lire la suite]

In one of my recent VDI projects I was working with Symantec Endpoint Protection as the choice of AV solution. When I started working on the project I was not able to find much information on the exact steps required for me to design and implement a Horizon View solution with Symantec Endpoint protection. I worked my way across the design and implementation by reading various whitepapers both by VMware and Symantec. This prompted me to work on a series of blog articles which covers the Symantec SEP integration with... [Lire la suite]

Avec la mise à jour de BES 10.1, BlackBerry ouvre son serveur de gestion des terminaux mobiles à la sécurisation des environnements concurrents iOS et Android. BlackBerry annonce la disponibilité de BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 10.1. Une évolution notable par rapport à la version 10 du serveur de gestion des terminaux BlackBerry en entreprise présentée en mars dernier. BES 10.1 n’intègre rien de moins que le support des plates-formes iOS et Android, aux côtés des mobiles BlackBerry 10 et OS 7 dans la gestion de la... [Lire la suite]

Microsoft a mis en ligne les versions d’évaluation de Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 et SQL Server 2014. Les versions finales sont prévues pour fin 2013 ou début 2014. Depuis hier, 25 juin, les versions preview de Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 et SQL Server 2014 sont disponibles au téléchargement. Ce qui permet, à tous ceux qui sont intéressés, de se faire une première idée sur les nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées. Ainsi, Windows Server 2012 R2 et System Center 2012 R2 intègre... [Lire la suite]

Microsoft a ouvert sa conférence développeur annuelle, à San Francisco, en annonçant la disponibilité de la version Preview de Windows 8.1 qui confirme le retour du bouton Démarrer et s’accompagne de nombreuses nouvelles apps. Steve Ballmer agrandir la photo On avance mais on revient légèrement en arrière ! C’est un peu l’impression que peut laisser Windows 8.1 avec le retour du bouton Démarrer, la possibilité de démarrer directement le PC sur le bon vieux bureau ou encore le support de WebGL dans IE11 (alors que... [Lire la suite]

Windows 8.1 présente un nombre très important d’améliorations, surtout si l’on considère que 8 mois seulement se sont écoulés depuis la disponibilité de Windows 8. Voici celles qui ont été confirmées lors de la conférence BUILD et la présentation de la version « PREVIEW ». Améliorations BUREAU Possibilité de booter directement sur le Bureau Possibilité de redéfinir/désactiver les coins réactifs Réapparition d'un bouton Démarrer Possibilité de ne plus afficher l'écran d'accueil et d'appeler directement l'écran Liste des Apps ... [Lire la suite]