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How-to Configure Backup in Zerto Virtual Replication

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Zerto Virtual Replication product can not only replicate, but also backup VMs which are present in a protection group. It’s not a full-fledged backup product with fine-grain scheduling engine and ++ tweak options, but it allows to recover a VM from backup which is up to 1 year old. All this is accessible very easily […]

How-to Assign a Public IP Which Persist Across Reboots for Ravello VMs

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This is another How-to post to get you started on Ravello. Today we’ll learn How-to Assign a Public IP Which Persist Across Reboots for Ravello VMs. It may be, after all, a good idea to access your VMs after creating them, no? For those of you who don’t know Ravello, just quickly recap what Ravello […]

FREE vs Paid – StarWind Virtual SAN

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I stumbled into an interesting document while browsing StarWind software website. The document is called Free vs Paid and it explains basically that even the Free, limited edition of StarWind Virtual SAN can be used in production environment. In case, of course, you’re are IT admin with enough knowledge, and you’re able to install, setup […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 4.4 – Troubleshoot PCoIP Configuration

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Today’s objective will give you some details where we’ll monitor PCoIP sessions, see where to troubleshoot network packet loss, optimize performance etc.. VCP6-DTM Objective 4.4 – Troubleshoot PCoIP Configuration is today’s topic. Note that you can find all the VMware Certification Exam topics at our VCP6-DTM Study Guide page. VMware Knowledge Monitor PCoIP session statistics Troubleshoot […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 4.3 – Troubleshoot connectivity between Horizon (with View) components

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VMware Desktop and Mobility certification exam continue today with a new topic. VCP6-DTM Objective 4.3 – Troubleshoot connectivity between Horizon (with View) components. All exam topics can be found on VCP6-DTM Study Guide page on this blog. Difficult to do a post on troubleshooting when having a lab deployment only and not a large scale […]

Simplivity Omnistack 3.5 – Intelligent Workload Optimizer, Stretched Cluster support, Rest API

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Simplivity just announced Omnistack 3.5 release. For those of you who don’t know Simplivity, you might want to check my other post about their hyper-converged architecture and how they are able to provide a performance guarantee, as well as capacity savings across all the storage (including backups) and restore times. The previous Omnistack release brought […]

Friday Freebie: RVTools 3.8 Released

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Nice new update. RVTools 3.8 Released few days back. It’s a free utility for Virtual infrastructures running VMware vSphere and it has been released few days ago. RVTools 3.8 is a free utility which allows to get deep and rich information about virtual infrastructure, or single ESXi host. The tool is part of the Free […]

How-to Install VMware Tools on VM which runs in Ravello Cloud?

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Yes, even a VM which runs on Ravello systems needs VMware tools to be installed in order to get the best possible performance. So if you create a Simple VM on Ravello cloud you have to install a VMware tools inside of that VM. How-to Install VMware Tools on VM which runs in Ravello Cloud […]

vSphere 6.5 Web Client – Free Preview Released by VMware Labs

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Update: The next release is VMware vSphere 6.5 !! During the General session at VMworld Barcelona today, Tuesday 18th of October 2016, a new vSphere 6.5 has been announced by Pat Gelsinger. Check my vSphere 6.5 dedicated WordPress page. VMware labs released a free VMware labs released a free vSphere 6.5 Web Client (or if you […]