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Aujourd'hui et durant tout le mois de février le lancement de vSphere 6 : https://www.vmware.com/now?cid=70180000000NktD&src=socialmedia_15Q1_vmw28days_US_CloudCred_Task_Microsite    

Avec la version 6.0 de vSphere, VMware veut améliorer la gestion des ressources de stockage allouées à chaque VM. (crédit : D.R.) Avec vSphere 6.0, proposée en bêta publique, et l'arrivée de Virtual Volumes, VMware veut améliorer la gestion et l'allocation des ressources de stockage associées aux machines virtuelles. Pour la première fois, il veut recueillir largement les retours des utilisateurs. Fin juin, VMware a créé la surprise en annonçant une bêta publique du successeur de vSphere 5.5, en l'occurrence vSphere... [Lire la suite]

Quest Software unveiled new vRanger 6.0 product. This new, enhanced version of vRanger, will be able to backup not only VMware vSphere architecture, but through the same UI you’ll be able to backup/restore physical hosts as well. The backup of physical hosts will operate through agents installed in those physical systems, and those agents will be pushing the data to be backed up, to the backup repository. Distributed agent’s architecture optimizes the data flow avoiding bottle necks and have better scalability. It eliminates extra... [Lire la suite]

One of the most popular scripts on my site with 26,966 downloads of v5 has been the vCheck script, for those of you who haven’t seen this yet here is a quick summary of this script: Summary vCheck is a vCenter checking script, the script is designed to run as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information via an email directly to your inbox in a nice easily readable format. This script picks on the key known issues and potential issues of the virtual infrastructure and reports it all... [Lire la suite]

The following are top support issues that were reported by customers since v6 launch. The information below is based on first 10 days, and is coming from v6 install base of over 20'000 unique downloads.The patch addressing all 3 issues below is available through our technical support starting December 10, 2011.Issue 1Direct SAN Access processing mode does not work for certain SAN makes and models.Issue 2Virtual Appliance (Hot Add) processing mode does not work when backup proxy is installed on localized version of Microsoft... [Lire la suite]

While upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP2 using the GUI, you will come across the error message shown below. This only happens while upgrading the CAS role. The reason is that the CAS requires a new pre-requisite for supporting OWA mini (a new feature in SP2). Hence, either install it using Server Manager (right click “Web Server” and add role service) or Windows PowerShell. --> Please see the rest on the blog :  http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2011/12/iis-6-wmi-compatibility-component-is.html 

n March this year Citrix released a first public beta of the next version of XenServer called Project Boston, followed by another beta release in July this year. Now Citrix has released XenServer 6.0, which provides networking, performance and scalability improvements, based on the Xen hypervisor. Citrix has now introduced the Open vSwitch (OVS) standard as the default network stack of the product. Citrix has decided not to release the Self-Service Manager feature available in the beta, because Citrix wants to... [Lire la suite]

Quel que soit le type de cloud qui vous intéresse (IaaS / PaaS / SaaS) la beta de la nouvelle version de MAP (Microsoft Assesment and Planning toolkit) est là pour vous aider à mener à bien votre/vos projet(s). - Pour les projets de type IaaS: MAP 6 propose maintenant une intégration plus poussée avec les configurations proposées par les partenaires participants au programme Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track incluant le stockage, le réseau et la consommation électrique en complément des aspects mémoire et CPU. MAP 6 propose aussi un... [Lire la suite]

La RHEL 6 est aujourd’hui disponible en version bêta. Petit tour d’horizon du prochain produit phare de Red Hat. --> A voir sur le site http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2010/04/22/linux__la_red_hat_enterprise_linux_6_entre_en_beta

A while ago I noticed that when I started virtual machines on Hyper-V on my laptop – they were taking just over a minute to start.  Looking at the Hyper-V management console showed that for most of this time the virtual machine was sitting at “Starting (6%)” under the status column. After a bit of investigation I discovered that this was the result of a known issue.  When this happens the cause is usually because there is a problem with Hyper-V finding a valid certificate.  To give a bit more context: When you... [Lire la suite]