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Alex Samoylenko
Alex Samoylenko
Virtualization Architect. Alex is a certified VMware vExpert and the Founder of VMC, a company focused on virtualization, and the CEO of Nova Games, a mobile game publisher.
Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • February 21, 2017

What is Smart Policies and how it works in VMware Horizon 7 infrastructure

As administrators of VMs infrastructure based on VMware Horizon 7 well know, the last version of VMware User Environment Manager 9.0 (UEM) solution provides an interesting feature – Smart Policies. This functionality allows customization of user environment on a virtual desktop, depending on various conditions, such as the location from which the user logs in.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • January 26, 2017

Encryption of VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines and vMotion migrations. And their performance

As many admins of virtual infrastructures know, for the first time ever, VMware vSphere 6.5 received the long awaited encryption feature of both virtual disks content and vMotion hot migrations. The VMs encryption works based on AES-NI algorithm, and the key management is carried out based on KMIP 1.1 standard. When I/O operation comes to the disk of the virtual machine, it is immediately encrypted on-the-fly, which provides complete security against data security attack.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • December 29, 2016

3 useful tricks with VMware vCenter Server Appliance

As is well-known, VMware has released a new version of virtual VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 in the new version of vSphere 6.5 platform. Now vCSA is Photon OS-based. It works faster; it is provided with built-in high availability tools and has a ready-to-use vCenter Update Manager (VUM).  
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 29, 2016

Recent news for VMware Tools packages for VMware vSphere 6.5

Starting from VMware Tools 10.0 version, VMware has done these packages downloadable separately from VMware ESXi distributions. They are available here. To see the active VMware Tools version installed in your VM, simply look at VM properties in vSphere Client.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 1, 2016

VMworld Europe 2016 main announcements – all you need to know about new versions of VMware products in just one article

Just recently one of the main virtualization conferences VMworld Europe 2016 has finished. Traditionally, it has been held a while after the main VMworld in the USA. While in the USA VMware was speaking about the new technologies and the future of datacenters, in Europe much more attention was paid to the new features of updated VMware products. The main of them is, of course, VMware vSphere 6.5 server virtualization platform. We’ll start our overview with it.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • October 20, 2016

VMware Horizon FLEX. The architecture and the key features

As far back as 2 years ago at VMworld Europe 2014 conference VMware announced the release of the VMware Horizon FLEX solution. It is a virtualization platform for desktops, which allows running virtual machines locally on users’ computers, both on Mac and with Windows, while connection to the company’s datacenter isn’t available. At the same time, the virtual machine utilized by the user can be Windows-based or have guest OS Linux inside. Many virtual infrastructures administrators still remember that before VMware had VMware ACE and VMware View Local Mode products, which passed long ago and now have been replaced with FLEX technology. Since VMware Horizon FLEX 1.9 version, as well as the new versions of Workstation and Fusion desktop platforms, has been released just recently, let’s look closer at the FLEX solution and consider its key features.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • September 1, 2016

How VMware sees IT future. VMworld 2016. Day 1.

As you know, the main virtualization conference VMworld 2016 arranged by VMware is now being held in Las Vegas. On the first day of the conference several interesting announcements were made. For example, VMware Cloud Foundation, which soon will be available on the IBM platform and later with other vendors, as well, was presented. It allows to get a ready-made infrastructure at customer’s site with both necessary software and hardware components and ready, configured and integrated control and automation tools like NSX, Virtual SAN and vRealize:
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • July 22, 2016

Instant Clone functionality in VMware Horizon 7 – how quickly and efficiently it works

As far back as at VMworld 2014, VMware announced VMware Project Fargo technology, also broadly known as VMFork. It allows to make a working copy of a running virtual machine on VMware vSphere platform very fast.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • July 4, 2016

VMware Photon OS + Docker Volume Driver = containers architecture on vSphere virtualization platform

Many of you know that VMware has a technology called vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). It involves launch of Docker (and others) virtualized containers in small virtual machines with a lightweight operating system based on Linux distribution. This operating system is VMware Photon OS 1.0, which has been finally released just recently. This is the first release version of this operating system from VMware, but in the long view it can become the main platform for virtual appliances by replacing the everlasting SUSE Linux.
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