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Trilead announced the release of a new version of Trilead VM Explorer, which is a backup and replication product for virtualization architectures based on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. Trilead has added support for the latest ESXi Versions (ESXi 5.1.1117900, ESXi 5.0.1117897 and ESXi 4.1.1050704). As you know Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 is supported already and [...]
Latest release of VMware vCenter 5.1U1a has been released yesterday. This latest release comes up after several weeks only, because a fix was discovered just after the release of 5.1U1. A bug which affected users which were logging into vCenter Server using the vSphere Client with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) in a multi-domain environment. Those [...]
The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the [...]
A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When [...]
VMware SSO install, when done wrong or when architected the wrong way, can put your infrastructure into a fragile state where SSO can became the single point of failure (SPOF). Before introduction of SSO in vSphere 5.1, there was a vCenter considerations when it comes to resiliency and protection. With the introduction SSO it’s like an additional [...]
Latest release of VMware vCloud and Datacenter suite has been released – VMware vSphere 5.1 U1. The number of changes and updates is quite phenomenal There are many new features introduced and not only as you would imagine, bug fixes. But we’ll have a look at the changes and those evolutions that are in, a bit [...]
ESX Virtualization has an app! Not so long time ago I’ve started to use the mobile version of the WP theme which provides better user experience on iPads, and smartphones, today I tried to create my first Web App for Chrome, and also Chrome extension. There is quite a few guides around the internet on [...]
vOpenData is a community driven project where user submit virtual infrastructure configurations, (collected via script) where only anonymous data are collected. Those data then feed up a database which is accessible in a form of dashboard where you can see most common configurations. Ben Thomas and William Lam had a dream which came true very quickly. Actually it was [...]
New vSphere hardening guide has been released. The news came by from vSphere Security Blog here. The vSphere Hardening guide present itself as an excel spreadsheet, where the different components of vSphere 5.1 are laid on separate worksheet. You have the possibility to consult different ways to restrict (harden) access to different components of vSphere and protect your installation [...]
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 has been released few days ago. vCOPS 5.7 provides performance, capacity and configuration management for VMware vSphere. It’s a standalone product, which is also distributed as bundle with VMware vSphere. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is preconfigured as a virtual appliance (VM) and it’s available in three editions: Standard Advanced Enterprise What’s [...]
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Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 Free Version (New) - also called “VeeamZIP |
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Virtual Health Monitor - Free product for VMware, Hyper-v, Xen, RHEL, Citrix XenServer, OpenStack, CloudStack... |
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Veeam One Free Edition 6.5 (New) - updated version of Veeam One Free edition |
