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Normally, RVTools doesn’t need to be introduced: for people having VMware infrastructures to administer, RVTools is like a swiss knife. This tool is able to display a lot of information about your VMware infrastructure and allows you to export the result (in CSV or Excel). If I quote the RVTools author’s website, RVTools is able to: [...] list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, Multipath info and health checks. ...

VMware released today a new exam to qualify candidates for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Administration (VCAP5-DCA) Certification. You have now the possibility to pass two different exams: passing either of these will earn VCAP5-DCA certification if you meet the other pre-requisites. This new exam (code VDCA550) is based on vSphere v5.5, where the existing exam (exam code VDCA510) is based on vSphere v5.0. I have just extracted this sentence of the VDCA550 Exam Blueprint: ...

Overview Beginning with vSphere 5.1, VMware introduced LACP support on vSphere Distributed Switch (LACP v1), to form a Link Aggregation team with physical switches. LACP is a standard method (IEEE 802.3ad) to control the bundling of several physical network links together to form a logical channel for increased bandwidth and redundancy purposes. LACP enables a network device to negotiate an automatic bundling of links by sending LACP packets (LACPDUs) to the peer. ...

VMware announced yesterday on the VMTN blog the vExpert 2014 list…and I’m proud to say that I’m part of that list (for the 1st time) ! :) Compared to last year where 581 vExperts were nominated, VMware awarded 754 people with the vExpert title this year, which is a huge step forward (+35%). The vExpert directory is not updated yet, but it should be during the week. [...] the vExpert Program the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. ...

You’re interested about OpenStack and you want to discover it in a fast and easy way ? How about 15 minutes of your time and a single physical device (like your laptop or your workstation) ? :) For those living in caverns for the last 3 years, OpenStack is an open-source cloud-software platform which serves to build public and private clouds. This platform is based on a modular architecture, consisting in the following components: Nova for compute ...