Plain Virtualization

With the days getting nearer to VMworld 2014, there are so much news from VMware.  First the acquisition of CloudVolume announced on 20th August 2014, now the release of the Virtual SAN (VSAN) Sizing Tool which everyone is having a great effort trying to find one or build one. Check out the release article on this and read about its limitation or requirement at the moment supported. You will be able to access the tool here . Just to note this is an initial release, so there might be one or two bugs you might encounter.  Do help by providing feedback by clicking on the feedback icon so we can have better tool by refine it further. Bugs found on 22nd Aug Initial test, the host count always stay at 14 irregardless of the parameters given. Issue has been resolved on 22nd Aug.

If you are not aware, the vSphere Beta Program is not available to the public.  This is beta 2 where beta 1 was via invite or to VMware employees only. This is the first product from VMware where beta is free for sign up.  Do not miss this if you are a interested with the next release of vSphere. To sign up, head on here . By participating in the beta program, as always you need to be able to install this in some environment.  This can be your home lab or an isolated environment at your work place.  It can also be nested however if any issues resulted from nested will limit the support you reeive. So help sign up in this beta program and provide all your feedback and issues you encounter so that vSphere can remains as resilient, reliable and stable.  VMware will need any inputs possible to better this release so do not hesitate to provide. You will find all the documents and guides from the landing page upon signing up completion.