Here is the thing. You need to check your vCenter server version. How do you proceed? There are many ways to do it. You can view this information through vSphere C# client, vSphere web client or through the CLI, PowerCLI…. But there are also tools which can be used to show both at the same […]
Putty Alternative Called Xshell 5 – Free for Home users and Schools
I wanted to point out to this cool free utility (compatible with Windows 10), a Putty Alternative Called Xshell 5 – Free for Home users and Schools. It’s a company called Netsarang (US) which is producing the software. Xshell 5 is another SSH client and terminal, but the product has more than that under the […]
How-to Restore vCenter Server VM with Veeam Instant Recovery
If you’re running vCenter Server in a VM and something terrible happens, like a virus, file system corruption, Microsoft patch which went wrong, or a certificate problem, then read on. Anything can happen to your vCenter Server. So if you end up in that situation and you’re running Veeam Backup as your primary backup solution, you […]
How-to Create vCenter Alarm for VMs running on Snapshots?
Today we’ll show a built-in tool which can inform you about any VMs that runs on snapshots within your VMware vSphere environment. The built-in tool is simply vCenter Alarms. I know that there are many third-party tools that can inform you about snapshots. One of them is for example Snapwatcher which I reviewed a way […]
3CX v15 Launch Video
A few days back there was a live event organized by 3CX covering the launch of 3CX v15 Phone System. During the event, all details the upcoming 3CX v15 were unveiled followed by question and answers detailing the new features and improvements over the previous release. Admins were asking questions not only about improvements and […]
VCP6-CMA Objective 1.4 – Configure vRealize Automation Settings
Another topic today towards VCP6-CMA Certification exam. Today’s topic for VCP6-CMA Objective 1.4 – Configure vRealize Automation Settings. The exam is based on the 6.2 version of vRA, but I think the exam topics will evolve over time as the latest vRA 7 has been released. For now, passing the exam, according to the source, requires […]
How to configure RDP for your VM in Ravello Cloud
If you haven’t read my series about Ravello, you should start here – How to create a simple VM in Ravello? Ravello allows not only build an environment from scratch, but you can also upload your own VMs to Ravello so you don’t have to create everything (by using a VM Import Tool). Today we’ll show […]
Windows Server 2016 Essentials vs Standard
A few years back I was asked to deploy a Windows Server SBS edition. Being an experienced admin, I did not really like the experience. It was not the “traditional tools” which had to be used to configure AD, networking, and GPO, but rather those built-in web-based assistants. Quite terrible. Anyway. This post’s name is […]
You Are Number Six – Top vBlog 2016 Results!
Few days back you could watch live a Top vBlog 2016 results organized by Eric Siebert from vSphere-land.com. The full results are here. This vBlog popularity contest become an every year event. No suprises again this year, Duncan has the blog with the most popularity, tightly followed by William Lam. My results are a nice […]
VMware ESXi Command List – Maintenance
Today another post of the series ESXi Command List. The title says it all. We’ll have a look at different options to reboot ESXi from a command line and we’ll talk a bit about maintenance mode. You should always put hosts into maintenance mode when you do reboots, firmware updates, apply ESXi updates (most patches require the […]
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