The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 is full of new and exclusivefeatures. One of which is the nativefile-based backup and restore.I’m happy to announce two new guided walkthroughs on the VMware Feature Walkthrough site. These walkthroughs will help illustratehow to setup the vCenter Server Appliance file-based backup feature. But also how to restore your vCenter

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The CPBU user group survey program was started in 2014 with the intention of collecting pertinent and accurate information pertaining to the actual usage of vSphere for both critical and non-critical implementations in a variety of Business Critical Applications and RDBMS disciplines. The program is run by the CPBU as a partnership with “Database Trends

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I can’t handle the truth. I’ve long clung fast to the fantasy that age has made only the faintest etchings on my youthful looks. Then I tried Olay’s new artificial intelligence skin care tool, which uses deep learning to evaluate facial skin age and condition and compare it with actual age. The Olay Skin Advisor […]

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Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA today at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas announced a partnership to bring an NVIDIA AI-powered car to market. The news broke during the Mercedes Benz Inspiration talk at CES 2017 featuring NVIDIA founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Mercedes-Benz Vice President of Digital Vehicle and Mobility, Sajjad Khan. The […]

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Here is our Top 20 ESXi articles list for December 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article. Product offerings for vSphere 6.x Uploading diagnostic information for VMware using FTP How to purchase and file Pay Per […]

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Happy 2017 from the VMware Hands-on Labs team! I have three quick updates for you in this post. 1. We are currently working on our Spring Release, which is when we refresh some of thelabs from the prioryear’s VMworld. Look for some updated content around April of this year. 2. We havestarted planning the labs […]

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As the mobile-cloud era unfolds, IT organizations must keep pace with accelerating business expectations. But with more and more users to serve, endpoints to manage, and data to protect, in some cases those expectations are outpacing IT&#rsquo;s ability to stay in step. So, how do you close the gap when basic virtualization platforms can&#rsquo;t support […]

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There is no doubt about it; the channel has evolved thanks to a strong partner ecosystem. Today&#rsquo;s channel partners are stronger and better informed than ever before. As a result, the channel is moving in a much more collaborative direction of vendors and partners working together toward success. With this evolution continuing into 2017, we […]

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There are car guys and there are car guys. People who enjoy cars, and people who build cars. And if you step inside our booth at the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you’ll find a lot of people who know more than a few things about building cars, trucks, and other kind […]

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2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of repmgr version 3.3, the popular tool for PostgreSQL failover since 2010.

repmgr 3.3 provides a number of usability improvements for the repmgr command line utility, particularly for the ‘standby clone’ and ‘standby register’ commands. These changes are primarily aimed at making repmgr easier to use when provisioning complex replication clusters.

repmgrd users should take note of the changes to repmgr logging behaviour.

From repmgr 3.3, support for the upcoming PostgreSQL 10 release will be provided as far as possible. PostgreSQL 10 is still under development with significant changes expected to the implementation of replication functionality; anyone wishing to test repmgr with PostgreSQL 10 should build from the repmgr master branch. Links

• Website: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/repmgr/
• Download: http://repmgr.org/download/repmgr-3.3.tar.gz
• Release Notes: http://repmgr.org/release-notes-3.3.html
• Installation Instructions: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/repmgr/installation-instructions/
• Documentation: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr/blob/master/README.md
• Professional Support: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/support/support-postgresql/ About

repmgr is an open source package that helps DBAs and System Administrators manage a cluster of PostgreSQL databases. By taking advantage of the Hot Standby capability introduced in PostgreSQL 9, repmgr greatly simplifies the process of setting up and managing databases with high availability and scalability requirements.

repmgr is distributed under GPL v3 and maintained by 2ndQuadrant.

HCI is Not Just About Software-Defined When we talk about hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), we often focus on how this new model of IT infrastructure simplifies operations by uniting compute, storage, and networking under a single management interface. An aspect that&#rsquo;s occasionally overlooked, however, is how HCI&#rsquo;s hardware model also directly improves IT agility and cost-effectiveness

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By: Lora Johnson To help extend monitoring within your Microsoft SQL Server workloads, Blue Medora recently released an updated management pack for Microsoft SQL Server, featuring new monitoring capabilities for queries and extending its out-of-the-box dashboards to ensure you can optimize performance within your Microsoft SQL Server environment and across the IT stack. What&#rsquo;s New

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The PC is the driving force defining the future of gaming, and 2016 delivered in spades. It’s no shock that the action was focused on PCs. It’s the most open, customizable, scalable gaming platform – the home of passionate fans. Where the limits of realism, immersion and storytelling get pushed by hardware innovators and game […]

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Partners looking to catch up with TAP can utilize Partner Central to take full advantage of their partnership. We publish many of our quarterly webinars and trainings in Partner Central, making the portal essential for partners looking for TAP go-to-market opportunities and training resources. To get started, login to Partner Central and choose the option […]

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I&#rsquo;d like to welcome someone new to the PowerCLI team: Jake Robinson. Jake is our new Senior Product Manager for Automation Frameworks and CLIs. This means he&#rsquo;s going to be spending a lot of time focusing on the future of PowerCLI! Jake has been long been a PowerCLI user. He&#rsquo;s even presented PowerCLI sessions at […]

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As part of the continuing effort to develop joint VMW-Partner collateral in the broad space of Business Critical Applications running on vSphere or what we are in 2017 referring to as Enterprise Critical Solutions HPE and VMware have just completed a joint paper. This work is focused on Microsoft SQL Server implementations on vSphere on

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