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Category: VMworld

  • vCloud Suite 5.5 Announcement

    VMware have announced updates to their vCloud Suite product.

    VMware have extended the number of products that are included in the vCloud Suite 5.5, this includes vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) availability in all editions rather than just the Enterprise Suite. Prior to this announcement vCloud Automation Center came in a single version, however the announcement let’s us know that we now have Standard, Advanced and Enterprise versions available.

    • vCloud Automation Center – Standard Edition offers the basic self service portal feature of vCAC.
    • vCloud Automation Center – Advanced Edition offers the same functionality as the existing vCAC product.
    • vCloud Automation Center – Enterprise Edition offers full vCAC functionality plus vFabric App Director for Release Automation.

    vCloud Director and vCloud Networking and Security are not sold as standalone products anymore.

    All editions of the vCloud Suite now include automation features (offered by vCAC) and Operations Management (using vCOPS).

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  • New VMware Certification Offerings – VMware Certified Associate (VCA)

    One of the things that VMware hadn’t followed up was their Associate certification offerings, when they first announced the VCA4 DT exam a couple of years ago there was a hope that VMware would offer further exams but for the last couple of years they haven’t. That’s just changed Smile

    VMware have just announced the availability of more VMware Certified Associate level certifications (VCA). Like the earlier VMware VCA4 DT certification there are no mandatory training course or pre-reqs for the VCA exams but there are recommended FREE on-line training courses which can be taken for the exam preparation.

    There are currently 3 exams which are available now for registration with the VCA-NV exam coming soon.

    Below are the VMware Certified Associate which are available:

    More information about the new certification can be found on the VMware Certification page and the VMware Certfication Road Map

  • What’s new in vSphere 5.5

    VMware has just announced the vSphere 5.5 product at VMworld 2013. Here are the new features and enhancements.

    vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements

    • Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) Devices
    • Support for Reliable Memory Technology
    • Enhancements for CPU C-States

    Virtual Machine Enhancements

    • Virtual Machine Compatibility with VMware ESXi™ 5.5
    • Expanded vGPU Support
    • Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests

    VMware vCenter Server Enhancements

    • VMware vCenter Single Sign-On
    • VMware vSphere Web Client
    • VMware vCenter Server Appliance
    • vSphere App HA
    • vSphere HA and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (vSphere DRS)  Virtual Machine–Virtual Machine Affinity Rules Enhancements
    • vSphere Big Data Extensions

    vSphere Storage Enhancements

    • Support for 62TB VMDK
    • MSCS Updates
    • vSphere 5.1 Feature Updates
    • 16GB E2E support
    • PDL AutoRemove
    • vSphere Replication Interoperability
    • vSphere Replication Multi-Point-in-Time Snapshot Retention
    • vSphere Flash Read Cache

    vSphere Networking Enhancements

    • Link Aggregation Control Protocol Enhancements
    • Traffic Filtering
    • Quality of Service Tagging
    • SR-IOV Enhancements
    • Enhanced Host-Level Packet Capture
    • 40GB NIC support

    More details can be found in the What’s New in vSphere 5.5 Platform Guide

  • VMworld 2012 – So close but not close enough.

    Well I nearly fulfilled my dream of attending VMworld this year, arriving into the office I discovered that one of the attendees had called in sick and I was being asked if I was able to go (I carry my passport with me so could leave there and then Surprised smile) but decided to wait and see if the hotel and event reservations could be swapped over.

    All I can say is a big thanks to VMware for bending over backwards in accommodating a change in attendee at this late stage, not so much a big thanks but a disgruntled growl to the hotel who were totally un-prepared to allow for a change in guest thereby scuppering my chance of going to VMworld 2012.

    Disappointed doesn’t even come close Sad smile