5.5

Here's a fantastic summary of vSphere 5.5 best practices, including some NetApp specific recommendations. Since it’s not immediately clear - the blog post is actually a table of contents (each recommendation is a link leading to detailed blog post).   --> thank you Gostev for letting us know of this nice content.

If you are using HP Proliant DL380 G7's for your vSphere 5.5 hosts, be aware of this potential PSOD issue and patch your hosts soon with this fix from HP.   potential PSOD issue this fix from HP   --> Thank you Gostev for letting us know of this problem and fix :)

With the recently released VMware vSphere 5.5, the component Single-Sign-On (SSO) has been completely rewritten. The biggest change is that the RSA database has been removed, which eliminates much of its complexity. There is also a new identity type (Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication)) that works without specifying the AD Controllers directly, like the old vSphere 4.x / 5.0 authentication. The whole process is much easier. This post shows how to enable Active Directory Authentication within the new vSphere 5.5... [Lire la suite]

The Backup Exec 2012 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available for download and adds support for vSphere 5.5. How to download the service pack If you are an existing customer and would like to download the latest Backup Exec service pack, please visit:http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH205351. From there download the EXE at the bottom of the page.   --> please see the rest on the blog : http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/backup-exec-2012-adds-support-vmware-vsphere-55 

Today Veeam released Veeam Backup & Replication R2. This version has a lot of new features. One of the most interesting is support for VMware vSphere 5.5. The update also contains bugfixes. Veeam has named this release a patch. To obtain the patch please download it from: Download More information here What is new: VMware vSphere 5.5 support, including support for 62TB virtual disks and virtual hardware v10 virtual machines. vCloud Director 5.5 support. Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 as guest... [Lire la suite]

With VMware ESXi 5.5 and vSphere Hypervisor 5.5  it is possible to upgrade the Virtual Machine to hardware version 10. The vSphere Client cannot  edit settings of VMs that have hardware version 10. When you try to edit a hardware version 10 in the vSphere 5.5 client the following warning appear: You cannot use  the vSphere Client to edit the settings of virtual machines of version 10 or higher…….   To edit settings of a version 10 VM  you need the VMware vSphere Web Client! vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 does... [Lire la suite]

Le VMworld US débute avec l’annonce de VMware vSphere 5.5 et ses nouvelles fonctionnalités Support for VMDK files of max. 62 TB filesize (x34)  for VMFS5 and NFS No change in the pricing of vSphere editions. 4 new features: AppHA*, Reliable Memory, Flash Read Cache and Big Data Extensions Latency-sensitivity feature for applications like very high performance computing and stock trading apps vSphere Hypervisor (free) has no physical memory limit anymore Maximum RAM per host 4 TB (x2) Virtual CPUs per host 4096 (x2) ... [Lire la suite]

Après quelques semaines d’attente suite aux annonces du VMworld à San Francisco, ca y est, la version 5.5 de vCloud suite incluant vSphere est disponible au téléchargement. De nombreux produits composent cette suite : VMware ESXi 5.5.0 VMware vCenter Server 5.5 VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.5.1 VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 VMware vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.5.0 Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Ethernet Modules for vSphere 5.5.0 VMware vCloud Director 5.5.0 VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.0 VMware vCenter Site... [Lire la suite]

Citrix accélère sa stratégie sur le marché de la virtualisation en maintenant la gratuité de son hyperviseur XenServer. Essentials, la suite d'outils de gestion suit la cadence en mode payant.Moins de trois mois après avoir annoncé la gratuité totale et illimitée de XenServer, Citrix dévoile aujourd'hui la version 5.5 de son serveur de virtualisation. La nouvelle mouture ajoute un certain nombre d'éléments qui visent à simplifier la gestion des applications virtualisées et faciliter sa mise en œuvre au sein du système d'information de... [Lire la suite]

Même superbe, l'annonce du support de l'iPhone comme client léger n'est que la cerise sur le gâteau de nouveautés que Citrix a présenté à sa conférence Synergy à Las Vegas. L'éditeur a aussi pré annoncé d'autres évolutions de son offre, toutes orientées vers la virtualisation, comme il se doit. Citrix a ainsi fait la démonstration technologique d'une version virtualisée de NetScaler, son cache/accélérateur d'applications Web. L'actuel NetScaler MPX, qui utilise du matériel dédié, continuera d'être proposé dans le cadre... [Lire la suite]