VMware vSphere 6.5 has been announced with many evolutions in the product. Many new features that were part of the beta now can “see the light” through many blog posts and articles, published all around the web. This one is no difference. Every year, during VMworld time we have at least 10 articles scheduled. You […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 – VM Encryption Details
VMware vSphere 6.5 brings also VM encryption. VM encryption will work by applying a new Storage policy to a VM. It is Policy driven. You’ll be able to encrypt the VMDK and the VM home files. There is no modification within the guest OS. It does not matter which OS you’re running (Linux, Windows, DOS, […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 – VUM, AutoDeploy and Host Profiles
We have announced the VMware vSphere 6.5 in a detailed post here and you can also find all news related to vSphere 6.5 on the dedicated page of our blog. This post will uncover news about VMware Update Manager (VUM), Autodeploy and Host Profiles. The latter two are quite tightened together so it makes sense to […]
Free How-To Guide To Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab!
One of my readers, Neil Anderson from Glasgow, wanted me to share a few words about his new How-to guide to Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab. Neil has a new blog at https://www.flackbox.com/about-neil/ and, as he does not get that much traffic as a new blogger, he asked me to give him a […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication (NBR) Appliance – Easy deploy and config
In this post, we will invoke some benefits of Nakivo Backup and Replication (NBR) appliance and we will go through few deployment screens. Nakivo is one of the data protection companies who provides multi-platform deployment product allowing you to chose the OS platform (Windows, Linux) but also the deployment destination – on virtual (as a VM) […]
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Download
Microsoft Announced and released Windows Server 2016. The product is available through MSDN, and also available for download as 180 days trial. Already during the MS Ignite, Microsoft has announced the release is imminent… and it was finally released as eval, the October 1st. We have reported on the different features coming in the Windows […]
Altaro VM Backup Best Practices
I have been running Altaro VM backup in the lab since they have released their v6 of their backup and replication software. In this post, I’ll try to sum what to do after installation. Like configs of storage, a hypervisor(s), retention policies etc. But this post is no mean to be an exhaustive guide. You might want […]
3CX Phone System Backup Options
3CX Phone system is a software solution allowing you to put in place a complete phone system software very quickly. You can use hardware or deploy it in a VM. It’s even possible to deploy the solution on a $100 Mini-PC. (with some cautions). The simplified installer can deploy the solution in 15 minutes. I […]
How To Create Multi-VM Application in Ravello
If you don’t know Ravello Systems (recently bought by Oracle) you might want to take a look as they have a smart solution which allows you to create low-cost virtual environment running on Amazon AWS or Google. Ravello Systems has a highly optimized Hypervisor which allows you to run not only traditional VMs, but also […]
VMware Integrated OpenStack 3.0.0 Released
I have reported recently on VMware Integrated Openstack 3.0.0. The software is now available for download from VMware. It is the “Mitaka” release. The download is single OVA file, quite large 5.52Gb in size. VMware Integrated Openstack (VIO) is integrated product approach where the customers can run OpenStack several ways. Either do it individually and download OpenStack […]
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