S3Â has been the first service Amazon Web Services division released in 2006, and is still the most used public storage service around. Many of you probably do not even know you are using it. Are you on Dropbox? Well, it runs on S3. Recently Amazon released a 2011 recap of…
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News from the virtualized world.
VMworld Europe 2012: new dates from 9 to 12 October
For unknown reasons, VMware has changed the dates of the VMworld Europe 2012. It will be still in Barcelona, but no more 16-18 October, but sooner, 9-12 October. Update you calendars, hoping none of you has been too early on booking đ
VMUGIT Hands On Day, great start with @ExaGrid
Last 18th January we had our first Italian VMUG Hands On Day. We hosted ExaGrid, US company who realize and sells disk backup appliances. The event went really well, we had 16 attendees, all of them extremely satisfied. I think is a good number, thinking about the extreme specificity; I’ve…
5 v-goals for my 2012
Pass the VCP 5 exam Learn “for real” Powershell Try at least one of the VCAP exams Go again to VMWorld, at least the european one Build a more powerful home vLab to test much more stuff What are you goals? Have you thought about them? Also, come back to…
New ESXi patch 515841
VMware has released patch with build number 515841 of ESXi 5.0, to fix some errors. Among them, this release fixes the problems with Storage UnMap iscsi commands; at the moment, the “brutal” solution has been made my completely disabling this feature. We hope for a future re-enablement when things will work…
#Veeam Backup 6: first patch
Veeam released the first patch for the new Backup & Replication 6. By release notes, the fixed issues are: 1. Direct SAN Access processing mode does not work for some virtual machines with certain SAN makes and models. 2. Virtual Appliance (Hot Add) processing mode does not work when backup…
New sponsor: ExaGrid
I would like to announce a new sponsorship for my blog: ExaGrid. The ExaGrid system is a cost effective and scalable disk backup solution that works with your existing backup application. ExaGrid combines high quality SATA drives, compression and byte-level data deduplication for fast and reliable backups and restores. ExaGrid’s…
#Veeam Backup & Replication 6 is available
After months of wait, with many previews and webinars, today Veeam Backup & Replication v6 has been released. To have all the latest info about this release, you can read about it on the official website and take a look at some review articles I made, you can read them…