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What Happens after 60 Days VMware vSphere Evaluation Period?

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I got this question several times already and realized that I don’t have a blog post which outlines that situation. You may wonder what happens after 60 days VMware vSphere evaluation period? Do all VMs stops? Does vCenter is still accessible? Can I still use my applications? One of my previous posts talks already about […]

StarWind Virtual SAN Getting Started

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I often get questions on setting up virtual environments. Which design to adopt for SMB or (and) enterprise environment, which storage, which how much RAM, etc. Some businesses might grow at slower pace and some might don’t grow at all. It’s often important to start small and have a possibility to upgrade when a business grows. If […]

VMware vSphere C# Client will be discontinued in the Next Major vSphere Release

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VMware is announcing today that the Windows-based C# client will be discontinued in the Next Major release of VMware vSphere. The only way to continue to manage VMware vSphere 6.next will be by using vSphere Web client, which we all know today has plenty of problems (slow, Flash plugin crashes, Client Integration plugin crashes…). It […]

How To Install VMware VCSA 6 in VMware Workstation

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You could have read my detailed post How-to Install VMware VCSA 6.0 on ESXi hypervisor already. Today we’ll show you how from the installation ISO you deploy VCSA by using VMware Workstation or Player. This is not supported by VMware, but it might be useful for home lab testing or “vSphere-in-a-box” demos. I have a […]

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 […]