Tutorial: emulate SSD disk on VM on ESXi

Tutorial: emulate SSD disk on VM on ESXi

Today we’re bringing an interesting tutorial that explains how to emulate a SSD on nested ESXi courtesy of Settlersoman.

The author explains that this process may help you to test VSAN and EMC ScaleIO in case you don’t have a server with SSD disk.

Find below the link to the article where you can see screenshots and learn about the whole process:

How to emulate SSD disk on virtual machine hosted on ESXi?.

VMware unveils vCloud for NFV with integrated OpenStack

VMware unveils vCloud for NFV with integrated OpenStack

VMware debuted VMware vCloud for NFV, an integrated Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that will combine VMware’s production-proven virtualized compute, networking, storage and management solutions with integrated OpenStack support.

With support for more than 40 different virtual network functions (VNFs) from more than 30 vendors, VMware vCloud for NFV is the only platform available today that runs different VNFs from different vendors side by side on the same unified platform for the cloud.

With vCloud for NFV, communication service providers (CSPs) can deploy NFV solutions into production on a proven platform to achieve faster time to market for new and differentiated services while driving sustainable cost reductions.

See more details at VMware press release.

vSphere 6, Remote PCs & VDI Tips

vSphere 6, Remote PCs & VDI Tips

During the last two weeks, the most outstanding topics in our blog have been the following: VMware vSphere new version, the new functionalities of UDS Enterprise with OpenGnsys and tips to avoid errors when deploying a virtual desktop infraestructure.

Below you can find the links to these posts so that you can be up to date with the most interesting news about virtualization:

VSphere 6: VMware walks towards the Hybrid Cloud

Remote PCs: New functionalities of UDS Enterprise with OpenGnsys

How to avoid the 8 most common errors in VDI

vSphere 6: VMware walks towards the Hybrid Cloud

vSphere 6: VMware walks towards the Hybrid Cloud

VMware announced vSphere 6, the newest edition of the industry-defining virtualization solution for the hybrid cloud and foundation for the software-defined data center. With more than 650 new features and innovations, VMware vSphere 6 will provide customers with a highly available, resilient, on-demand cloud infrastructure to run, protect and manage any application.

VMware vSphere 6 will be complemented by the newest releases of VMware vCloud Suite 6, VMware vSphere with Operations Management 6, and VMware Virtual SAN 6.

vSphere 6, Remote PCs & VDI Tips

Remote PCs, Hyper-V, ESXi & graphic station

The information about the Remote PCs project, the differences between ESXi and Hyper-V and virtualization of graphic station environments have been the most interesting topics during the last two weeks according to our followers.

If you didn’t have the chance to read them, you can find the links to these articles below:

Remote PCs with UDS Enterprise & OpenGnSys

Differences between Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi

Graphic station environments virtualization I

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