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How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down – With Nakivo

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Playing with the lab sometimes break things. If you break an ordinary VM, it does not really matter. But what if the VM is a vCenter VM? Recently that has happened to my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Impossible to connect and dig into the services, to start them up. No VMware snapshot either. But […]

VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup – Advanced Configuration

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Last week we have done a little lab test where we have tested the new vCenter Server 6.5 (for VCSA only) called vCenter HA. If you don’t know anything about how it works or what it can do I invite you to check our detailed article on that here – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Native vCenter […]

VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup With Simple Configuration – [LAB]

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Today we’ll be testing the new VCSA 6.5 feature allowing to setup active-passive architecture where the active node is your usual VCSA 6.5 which manages your infrastructure, and the passive node is a node which sits there doing nothing, just receiving files from the active node. So today’s post will detail VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup […]

Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released – There are 3 different Editions

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Backup of Linux systems can now be done by Veeam! Yes, Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released yesterday. The product has been in Beta for a long time, to allow more through testing and more time for developers to make sure to be reliable and ready for production environments. The destination of backups can be […]

Stratoscale Symphony 3 Generally Available – What’s New?

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Stratoscale Symphony 3 Generally Available, the announce was officially announced yesterday. Don’t you know Stratoscale or what they do? A Hyper-converged storage, what else? Yes, hyper-converged storage solutions are hot, since several years, but more and more vendors finally bring more useful features for clients. And also more offers is good for the competition if […]

VMware Horizon 7.0.3 Released adding compatibility with vSphere 6.5

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Few weeks after VMware vSphere 6.5 release, some VMware products starts to catch up with a compatibility. VMware Horizon 7.0.3 Released adding compatibility with vSphere 6.5, a few days back is one of them. We have reported on the Horizon 7 release as a major release including blast  and vmFork technology . The Blast extreme is […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 and New Image Builder GUI – Cloning a profile

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VMware worked hard to get this done. AutoDeploy fling was a long time the only GUI utility allowing manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment. Some of the features provided through the GUI included the ability to add/remove Depots, list/create/modify Image Profiles, list VIB details, create/modify rules to map hosts to Image Profiles, […]

How to create a custom ESXi 6.5 ISO with VMware Image Builder GUI

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As you know, previously, AutoDeploy and Image Builder played with PowerCLI only. Things have changed in vSphere 6.5 and now you have a possibility to build a custom image within the vSphere Web Client as the new GUI allows you to do that. So, today In the lab – How to create a custom ESXi […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums

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Yes, with vSphere 6.5 there are new VMware vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums. While it is not really important to have even bigger-than-monster VMs, it is still good to know what’s the biggest file size, what’s the biggest number of VMs that can be managed by single vCenter VMs etc. My post will not list everything […]