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Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 is Next

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Few weeks back Veeam has announced the first feature from Veeam Availability Suite 9.5. This obviously answers questions about what’s next release of Veeam. The first feature that has been mentioned in this announce is another storage vendor integration – Nimble Storage. Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 and Veeam, in general, is more and more used not only […]

Windows Server 2016 Telemetry Details

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Are you concerned? If you’re planning to deploy Windows Server 2016 in your company, then yes, you should definitely get this document which talks about Windows Server 2016 Telemetry (aka “Windows phone home”) settings. One would have thought that there wasn’t enough noise when Windows 10 went out and many freeware apps were released to […]

ESXi Commands List – Storage

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Learning CLI commands might not be fun for someone, but let’s try to add another post today. You could already learn about how-to monitor snapshot deletion from the CLI in our previous post – ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring – or get hand on some ESXi CLI Networking commands. ESXi Commands List – Storage, is today’s post. […]

PuTTyTray Is Free Improved Version of PuTTy

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A quick post today about a neat free tool which will be added to my Free Tools page. PuttyTray is improved version of Putty, SSH client, and terminal emulator. It’s heavy modified version, originally compiled by Barry Haanstra, now maintained by Chris West (Faux). It’s a free tool which can be personalized and which is cool. […]

Nakivo Distributed Deployment – How it works?

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Nakivo Backup and Replication 6 product can be deployed on single site, in simple deployment model. In this case, the Director and Transporter are deployed together. The second choice is to do a Nakivo Distributed Deployment, where you’ll be using two or more sites. In this case, a second transporter component shall be deployed at […]

Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Installation Guide

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This is step by step article (with video) which shows the installation of a Windows Server 2016 Active Directory on Windows Server 2016 (the latest TP5) by using VMware ESXi (I’m running the whole vSphere 6 in my lab). Many folks learning towards Microsoft and VMware certifications usually use a free version of ESXi which is […]

ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring

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Deleting a snapshot can sometimes go wrong. Through vSphere client you can’t see any progress and it’s impossible to visualize the status of snapshot deletion. Today’s post, ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring, will show some ESXi CLI commands which should help. Snapshots are something which has been around since the beginning of virtualization. While […]

How to stop Windows 10 Upgrade to be downloaded automatically on your computer

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If you’re on Windows 7/8 computer and don’t want in any way to upgrade to Windows 10, know that you can prevent the notifications pushed by Microsoft. Recently I had a client that asked me to do that so I thought that I share. Windows 10 brought many changes compared to W7/8 and some users […]

Which Blog is Your Favorite TOP vBlog 2016?

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As in previous years, Eric Siebert with vSphere-land.com is organizing a TOP vBlog voting competition and my blog, ESX Virtualization blog, is participating. I try to do a bit of everything, but staying as accurate as possible. Readers can vote and determine which virtualization blog they prefer to read through the year. Some readers might […]