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PSA: Less Than 1 Month Until Free VMware vCloud Suite Offer Expires

November 16, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

A friendly public service announcement: VMware announced at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco that any customer with vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing under a current Support & Subscription (SnS) agreement as of August 27th would receive a free upgrade to the new vCloud Suite Standard Edition. The free upgrade offer is only available through December 15, 2012. The vCloud Suite Standard Edition includes vSphere Enterprise Plus, VMware vCloud Director, vCloud Connector and vCloud Networking & Security Standard (formerly known as vShield Edge and vShield App). There's some other great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, Product Releases, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: free, licensing, Suite, vCloud, VMware

VMworld Europe News and Announcements

October 10, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

I wanted to let you all know about some announcements that have come out at VMworld Europe over the past couple days. These announcements help round out some of the new products and features announced at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. These new and updated features are a big deal for customers who want to take a wholistic approach to deploying and managing a hybrid cloud across different service providers. If you're thinking about upgrading your vSphere license to a vCloud Suite license (you have until December 15th to claim the free upgrade to the vCloud Suite Standard Edition, along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EMC, News, Product Releases, vCloud, VMware, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware vCenter Operations, VMware vSphere, VMworld Tagged With: 5.1, srm, vCloud, vCOps, vfabric, VMware, vmworld, vsphere

Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What’s New from VMware

October 1, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

Update: If you missed the webcast, you can watch the recorded session playback here: https://clearpathevents.webex.com/clearpathevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=5836487&rKey=29a86bf8d53cdfc8 The presentation is available on Sliderocket if you want to skip through the presentation quickly without listening to my goofy voice: Webcast: VMworld 2012 Recap: What's New from VMware Tuesday, October 2, 10-11 am Eastern In keeping current with the latest news from VMware, Clearpath's team followed all of the breaking developments at VMworld 2012 to observe and report on all the changes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, News, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: 2012, 5.1, horizon, Mirage, vCloud, vmworld, vsphere, webcast

New VMUG Advantage Benefit: Free VMworld Online Content Access!

September 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The VMUG Advantage subscription is an awesome benefit for members of the VMware User Group, and just got more awesomer with the addition of a new benefit - full access to all of the VMworld content, including breakout session recordings and slide decks, labs, and general sessions. Normally a VMworld.com subscription for online access to content is $699. The VMUG Advantage subscription is only $200 (or less if you got the 15% discount codes from yesterday's Potomac Regional VMUG in Washington DC), and VMworld content is free with the VMUG Advantage subscription. The VMworld session benefit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, News, VMUG, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: benefits, certification, discount, education, subscription, training, vcp, VMUG, vmug advantage, VMware, vmworld

You Get A Cloud, and You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud

August 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

It's like Oprah has visited VMworld today, proclaiming "You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud, and You Get a Cloud!" Look at your vSphere 5 box. If it says 'Enterprise Plus Edition' you get a key -- to the cloud. That's right - if you own VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Plus edition, you now have VMware vCloud Director. For free. As I predicted in Reading the Tea Leaves Before VMworld 2012 Part 2, VMware has introduced a new pricing/packaging scheme called the vCloud Suite, which combines vSphere 5.1, vCloud 5.1, and vCloud Networking and Security into a new package called the vCloud … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Product Releases, vCloud, VMware, VMware vSphere, VMworld Tagged With: 5.1, Suite, upgrade, vCloud, VMware, vmworld

No More vRAM Entitlement Licensing!

August 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

No More VMware vRAM Entitlement Licensing

Just announced at VMworld 2012 – VMware has stopped the unpopular ‘vRAM Entitlement’ licensing that restricted customers to provisioning virtual machines with a virtual memory beyond a licensed limit. The vRAM Entitlements were introduced with vSphere 5 and drew wide criticism despite the fact that few customers were actually impacted by the soft memory caps once N+1 hosts and other design architecture best practices were considered. Rather, I’d like to think that the vRAM Entitlement licensing may have actually been helpful in getting customers to right-size their VM’s and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Product Releases, VMware, VMworld Tagged With: 2012, licensing, VMware, vmworld

Booth Babe B.S.

August 27, 2012 By Josh Townsend 4 Comments

When will vendors get it - hired booth babes are just not cool at tech conferences. Don't get me wrong - I have no problem with attractive females in tech, but damn it, have some brains and be able to talk about the technology you are representing. I think next year I may submit fake talent to the Craigslist ads and modeling agencies seeking 'models' for VMworld booths - flood em with false positives and maybe we can kill off the practice..... If we vNerds start showing respect to our female counterparts we might actually attract more women to our trade and end the sausage fest that is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: VMworld Tagged With: vmworld, women of IT

Reading the Tea Leaves before VMworld 2012 – Part 2

August 26, 2012 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

In Part 1 of ‘Reading the Tea Leaves Before VMworld,’ I looked at some recent VMware acquisitions to make some predictions on what might be announced this week at VMworld. In part 2, I’ll work through the VMworld Content Catalog and a few other sources to guess at what product specific features and upgrades we might expect. So, without further ado, here’s What to Expect when you are vExpecting. vSphere 5.1 It’s no secret that an updated version of the flagship vSphere product will be announced this week. If history repeats itself, the version announced this week will pick up … [Read more...]