VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Client 4.5 are now available on the Google Play store. Both can be installed on Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones and used with Samsung DeX Station, which enables USB connectivity to peripherals. The joint Samsung and VMware solution delivers a unified, digital workspace to keep end users productive. […]

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VMware NSX for vSphere How to determine if vShield or vCloud Networking & Security is installed before deploying NSX Date Published: 2017/06/12 “Disabled” HA Service status on Edge Appliances after enabling HA Date Published: 2017/06/15 VMware Horizon Computer-based Global Policy Objects (GPOs) that require a reboot to take effect are not applied on instant clones. […]

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Congratulations Puppet on winning the regional VMware Partner Innovation Award! Puppet and VMware have a long history partnering that has borne fruit across multiple dimensions. Most recently the joint work across vRealize Automation and Puppet Enterprise has delivered value to our common customers in the areas of configuration management and automation.   Recently, we announced

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By: Gary Monk   I was recently working with a customer using the Oracle Database Management Pack from Blue Medora, who was interested in creating an alert that shows the percentage of free space in a tablespace. Through the Blue Medora Oracle Database Management Pack, you can gather two important metrics – total amount of

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I have lately started a tradition of copying/pasting reports of events I attend for the community to be able to read them. As always, they are organized as a mix of (personal) thoughts that, as such, are always questionable …. as well as raw notes that I took during the keynotes and breakout . . . → Read More: Hashidays 2017 - London: a personal report

As our CTO Ray O’Farrell recently mentioned, VMware is committed to helping customers build intelligent infrastructure, which includes the ability to take advantage of Machine Learning within their private and hybrid cloud environments. As part of delivering this vision, the Office of the CTO collaborates with customers and with VMware R&D teams to ensure the […]

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Last August, VMware announced enhancements to Advantage+, our opportunity registration program. This year, we continue the evolution as part of our ongoing commitment to deliver best in class partner programs. We are pleased to announce the following Advantage+ enhancements effective June 19: Lead on Professional Services – Premier and Enterprise Solution Providers and Corporate Resellers […]

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SRM supports two different replication technologies, Storage Array or Array-Based Replication and vSphere Replication. One of the key decisions when implementing SRM is which technology to use and for what VMs. The two technologies can be used together in an SRM environment though not to protect the same VM. Given that, what are the differences

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Boston is known for many things: The Red Sox baseball team, fresh lobster, the highest density of universities in one city. “Autonomous vehicles” can now be added to the list. Optimus Ride, an MIT spinoff company, recently announced that it has received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to test highly automated vehicles. Many […]

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It has been a while since the last release of PgBackMan and with this version we hope to start a new period with more frequent releases. This new release implements some new features and fixes some bugs from version 1.1.0. Source files, RPM and DEB files are available at GitHub.

New features

• Add dbname exception field to "register snapshot definition"
• Add dbname exception field to "register backup definitions"
• Possibility of defining multiple snapshots definitions in one command
• Update "show pgbackman config" to show more information
• Define a default backup server in all backup servers inputs.
• Possibility of generating CSV and JSON output with all show_* pgbackman commands
• Refactor the code used to manage command line parameters and define new parameters.
• Automatic compression of cluster type backups if gzip is available.
• New command to move backup definitions between backup servers.
• Add support for postgreSQL 9.6

Migration to 1.2.0

It is very important to check the upgrade procedure to version 1.2.0 in the documentation to avoid problems and errors when and after upgrading to the new version.

Check the section "Upgrading PgBackMan" for more information.

Bugfixes

• "show job queues" view does not show the right domain for pgsql_nodes. Issue:#47
• Backup definitions of type CLUSTER getting DELETE status. Issue:#39

In part 1 we introduced the concept of SAP HANA Application Workload guidance and using example business requirements to come up with a workload and vSphere cluster design for the SAP environment. In the second part we will look at storage, network and security design for the proposed customer environment.Availability Design The availability design depends […]

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