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VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

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VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View)

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Horizon View and preparation for VCP6-DTM Study guide continue today with Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View). Today’s (long) chapter is divided into several sections, each one of those very important and “un-skippable”. This guide shall help, but it’s only a part of the equation… So far we have covered few chapters (the road is long). […]

How-to Upgrade to Veeam Backup and Replication v9

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9 went RTM and many folks will be upgrading. In this post I’ll walk you through the upgrade process. There are few requirements and I’ve added few advice in this post concerning backing up your environment so you can roll-back in case of problem. You never know. First of you should run at […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer

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VCP6-DTM Study Guide continue with today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer. Horizon View composer is an essential piece of the artchitecture allowing to use linked-clones. The big advantage of linked-clones is storage savings that it allows, because linked-clone desktops share a base system-disk image, they use less storage than full virtual […]

Run Nested ESXi in AWS or Google with RavelloSystems

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Ravello Systems is a company allowing to use nested virtualization in the cloud. Instead of investing into a costly homelab, you might be interested into their advanced nested virtualization engine allowing you to run nested ESXi host and VMs on the top, through Amazon AWS or Google. Ravello was born in 2011 from folks working at […]

Linux on a USB Stick – create persistant Linux Distro on bootable USB

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There is this tool which you might find useful in a situation where you want to boot into a Linux. The utility is called LiveUSB Install and allows to install Linux distribution onto an USB stick (not to create installation USB). This might be the case when you’re facing unbootable system or simply want to have […]

Windows Server 2016 – What is the difference between Standard And Datacenter Edition

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Windows Server 2016 will come up in two releases. Standard and Datacenter. The standard edition will however not contain some features that the Datacenter will provide. This wasn’t the case of the current Windows Server 2012R2 where Standard and Datacenter editions provided the same features, but the only difference was in the possibilities to virtualize two […]

Xtreme Download Manager Freebie

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X-mass time is over but I though that this post would keep this “gift” atmosphere a bit longer, by introducing you to Xtreme Download Manager. This Free download manager is a class. It’s super fast, being able to increase a download speed up to 500% by launching multiple streams each downloading another piece (uses segmentation […]

vRealize Automation 7.0 Released

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A big release last week from VMware – A vRealize Automation 7.0 which has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. It took VMware finally several months to release the full product (the demo I saw was just before the Barcelona 2015 event). The product has simplified deployment (single OVA file) and has many architectural changes needing to […]