vSphere 6.0 – Feature List

The amazing VMware vSphere 6.0 has just been announced and will be released in March 2015!  Michael Webster wrote a great article about the significance of vSphere 6.0 that is worth reading.  This a “brain-dump” of the impressive new features and improvements:

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PhD. in Architecture Design?

I listened to a recent Nutanix .NEXT Community Podcast (Episode #6) that had Mark Brunstad talking about the education and certification plans of Nutanix.  Very interesting, it confirms a speculative post I wrote last year after VMworld US 2014 based upon rumours I heard around the Blogger’s Area.  There is also Steve Kaplan’s blog post that alludes to this.

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VCDX – Recoverability impacting Availability Explained

I have mentored quite a few VCDX candidates over the past year and the biggest weakness I see (and I was no different) is how Recoverability impacts Availability.  In particular, the relationship of SLAs to BC/DR and Backup/Recovery.

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