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VMware will announce today at VMworld US its hyper-converged solution: EVO:RAIL™. VMware EVO:RAIL is the first hyper-converged infrastructure appliance powered 100% by VMware’s compute, networking, storage, and management software. EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management streamlines initial setup and ongoing operations including updates with zero downtime and automatic scale-out. EVO:RAIL is fully deployed in minutes, once racked, cabled and powered on. But, wait…so VMware will sell hardware now? No, VMware is not entering the hardware market. ...

VMware Virtual SAN (a.k.a. VSAN) is getting more and more attention. Long story short, VSAN is a new hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage platform which aggregates locally attached disks of hosts that are members of a vSphere cluster, to create a distributed shared storage solution. Keywords of the solution are: optimal performances resilient storage platform simplified management agility Just released, the VMware Virtual SAN™ Sizing Tool provides assistance for design considerations and automates storage sizing calculations for Virtual SAN infrastructures. ...

I’m happy to announce that I will start a new chapter in my professional career. Starting next week, I will be joining VMware as a Solutions Architect within the Professional Services Engineering team (SDDC). :) I can still remember how surprised I was when I saw vMotion in action the first time during a demo back in 2004. Several thoughts came directly to my mind such as “How is that even possible ? ...

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) is a component of the Operations Management Suite which automatically discovers application services, and allows you to visualize relationships and to map dependencies of applications in vSphere Web Client. The discovery and mapping of the application services that exist on virtual machines and their interdependencies permits to understand the relation among them. Infrastructure Navigator is doing its awesomeness without the need for additional agents as it leverages VMware Tools: it’s quite a Fire-and-Forget application. ...

VMware released a new exam to qualify candidates for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Design (VCAP5-DCD) Certification. You have now the possibility to pass two different exams: passing either of these will earn VCAP5-DCD certification if you meet the other pre-requisites. This new exam (code VDCD550) is based on vSphere v5.5, where the existing exam (exam code VDCD510) is based on vSphere v5.0/5.1. Unfortunately, it seems that the blueprint related to the new VDCD550 exam is not released yet: you can only download the Blueprint for the VCAP5-DCD vSphere 5. ...