With the massive shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), we cannot deny that the traditional SAN and NAS markets are declining very quickly. According to Wikibon, traditional storage markets are declining close to 20% annually and they predict that traditional storage will go from being the dominant player today to a niche solution in less than

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The release of vSphere 6.5 introducesenhancements to several of VMware&#rsquo;s storage management capabilities, including enhancements to Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM), Storage IO Control (SIOC), virtual disk management, and of course the highly anticipated 2.0 version ofvSphereVirtual Volumes. This week we continue our coverage of vSphere 6.5 and bring in VMware Product Manager Ben Meadowcroft to

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vRealize Network Insight Case Study   California Department of Water’s IT Infrastructure and Operations has leveraged several industry standard technologies and tooling to maintain and operate their data center. Many of these tools were built for individual silos of compute, network and security. First of all, during the design phase of their new Cloud 3.0

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As you may recall, in the firstPredictive DRS management blogpost we discussed the three different methodologies that can be deployed to avoid contention, the value of each of them brings to the table and why its important to deploy all three in your datacenter. In this blog and in the video below will focus on

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Datacenter “A problem occurred while getting data from the source vCenter Server” error when upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147895) Date Published: 11/22/2016 VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes are not created on login in a multi vCenter Server environment (2146763) Date Published: 11/21/2016 VMware ESXi VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201611102-SG: Updates esx-ui (2145815) Date […]

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novaPDF 8.8 is now available. The latest version adds several new Macros for names as well as proxy support for activation and several other updates. You can download the latest version here: Download novaPDF 8.8. Here’s an overview on what … Continue reading →

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The concept of &#rsquo;work&#rdquo; has evolved dramatically over the past decade, and 2016 is the year end-user demands and enterprise IT finally began to come together. Watch the video below as digital workspace expert and VMware End-User Computing vice president Dave Grant explores: The impact of consumerization on IT and digital work. The balance between […]

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As the data center continues to evolve, it&#rsquo;s time for a more robust infrastructure that can help organizations meet the needs of modern business. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a radically simple, cost-effective solution designed with the future in mind—from performance to cost to scale.   If you&#rsquo;re interested in learning more about the transformative power

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I&#rsquo;m delighted to announce the availability of a new vSphere 6.5 core storage white paper. The paper covers new features such as VMFS-6 enhancements, policy driven Storage I/O Control, policy driven VM Encryption, NFS and iSCSI improvements and of course new limit increases in vSphere 6.5. There are too many VMware folks to thank for

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Looking to dig a little deeper into the technical side of VMware vCloud® Air™? Then sign up now for our &#rsquo;Technically Speaking&#rdquo; webcast series this December to gain a thorough understanding of all the security and management features that vCloud Air offers. Unlike cloud offerings that only support new applications and rely on proprietary management […]

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Mark your calendar to use these simple tips to clean and manage your pipeline. All registrations submitted and not closed will need to be extended, prior to the 90-day expiration. Detailed instruction to extend your registrations can be found here found here (on slide 18). Process Tip: Edit your registration to progress the Registration Opportunity […]

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Want to get a preview of what&#rsquo;s available in the VMware Learning Zone before you commit to a full subscription? How about free training on the latest VMware technologies? If you answered yes, the new VMware Learning Zone Trial Subscription is just what you&#rsquo;ve been waiting for. Here&#rsquo;s what you get with your free subscription: […]

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