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Alex Samoylenko
Alex Samoylenko
Virtualization Architect and VMware vExpert. Alex is the Founder of VMC and CEO of Nova Games. He specializes in enterprise virtualization, IT infrastructure, and mobile gaming operations. Alex provides technical leadership in vSphere deployments and cloud architecture, bridging high-performance systems with digital publishing ecosystems.
Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • August 2, 2022

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.4: Replicating the On-Premises Infrastructure to any VMware Cloud

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution that creates a backup infrastructure in a public cloud. Its most recent upgrade has brought a lot of new possibilities to the table.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • May 17, 2022

7 Interesting Features in latest releases of VMware Horizon 8

Desktop and app virtualization and delivery platform VMware Horizon is one of the top products of VMware, and just recently it got even better with the latest release. If you’re looking for more interesting details than there are in the Release Notes, take a look at a few enhancements that might have not gotten much spotlight.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 17, 2022

VMware App Volumes On-Demand Applications: How Does It Work?

VMware App Volumes is a software solution meant to deliver ready-to-use apps right to the users’ VMs, providing them with instant access to the required application. Formerly belonging to the CloudVolumes, it was released as the part of VMware Horizon line to decouple package management and delivery. Packaging once and deploying everywhere, VMware App Volumes brings the user experience to the whole new level.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • February 9, 2022

VMware Freestyle Orchestrator: Visual Tool for Configuring User Environments

Freestyle Ochestrator expands on the capabilities of Unified Endpoint Management in Workspace ONE. The latter is VMware’s intelligence-driven digital workspace platform. Freestyle Orchestrator is a low-code IT orchestration service that allows admins to build complex workflows attuned to their business’ dynamic deployment requirements.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • January 6, 2022

VMware vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide: 15 Things to Know About

VMware vSphere is one of the most widespread VMware products. No wonder the company takes its security issues seriously. Another update of VMware vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide will explain how to make your vSphere environment even more protected.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 9, 2021

3 New Important Things About VMware vSphere: Project Capitola, Project Monterey, and no more SD Card/USB Boot Device

VMworld 2021 announced three exciting changes. First, Project Capitola, a software-defined memory solution in the cloud. Second, Project Monterey, a revisit of virtualization infrastructure as a distributed control fabric via tight integration with SmartNIC to offload networking to the hardware level, plus a zero-trust security model. Third, future deprecation of SD Card/USB device boot options.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 30, 2021

VMware Multi-Writer Option for VMDK Disks in VMware vSphere for Clustering Solutions

Everything is a bit too complicated when it comes to vSphere, and this feature is no exception. While configuring vSphere clusters, your VMs may need to be accessed by various hosts simultaneously or several VMs in a cluster need to write at once within the same host. Sounds quite routine, but there are several “hoops” to jump through to set that up properly.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • August 10, 2021

5 New Features of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 That You May Not Know About

Admittedly, the newly released VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 has brought along a lot of new interesting features. However, while the primary upgrades have been widely discussed, not all improvements have got their fair share of the spotlight, leaving some prominent new additions largely unnoticed.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • July 6, 2021

Brand new VMware Customer Connect instead of the old My VMware: What’s Changed?

VMware Customer Connect is definitely better than its predecessor, My VMware. The new Customer Connect portal is powered by a novel AI and machine learning for elevated user experience. It also allows you to manage user assets, licenses, teams and user rights, monitor infrastructure health, create support tickets and do a host of other things within a sleek new design.
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