VMware Photon platform and Photon controller are part of a new technology coming from VMware. I have already tested the PhotonOS VM installation in the lab, but this is just one part of the puzzle. The other parts are the Photon Controller, which is going to be Open Source, and the Photon Machine (a stripped down […]
PassMark OSFMount – Free utility to create RAM Disk or mount images as local disks
I stumbled through this utility called OSFMount, which is Free utility to create RAM Disk. It can also mount images as local disks. This free utility isn’t new, but it’s first time I’m testing it. The interest and curiosity had me download this software and quickly create 32Gb RAM Disk on my destkop workstation which […]
HP ZBook Studio – A new (Real) competitor of Mac Book Pro?
Today’s announce of HP for their new ZBook Studio took my attention. Why? Because my old Samsung NP900x3A Ultrabook is getting old… the resolution isn’t what I’d expect now, my GoPro videos are kind of sluggish to edit. So I’m in a process of researching a new laptop gear which is not only portable (up to 2 […]
This VM will Expire after 7 days – VMware Workstation
One of the cool features of VMware Workstation is protecting VMs. This can be a VM which has limited lifetime. You can use those VMs for example for student’s class or hand it to prospects or customers without worrying that they’ll continue using those VMs after certain period. The use cases are multiple as you can […]
How-to Set an ESXi Scratch Partition from the vSphere Web Client
Instalable versions of ESXi has a scratch partition created during the installation process. It’s a 4GB VFAT scratch partition which is created during the autoconfiguratio phase. What’s scratch partition used for? It’s used for vm-support files (when you creating a support bundle). If a scratch partition is not set up, you might want to configure […]
VMware VSAN Stretched Cluster Performance and Best Practices
There is new PDF from VMware detailing best practices for VMware VSAN. The title says it all – VMware VSAN Stretched Cluster Performance and Best Practices. It does targets the latest VMware VSAN 6.1 where stretched cluster feature was introduced. A possibility to have a full site (with VSAN) failure. You’ll see some detailed tests which looks […]
How-to Protect Your Blog from Brute Force Attacks
If you’re one of our readers who has also a blog, then you might be interested in following tip allowing you to be safer. It happened to my server few months back and the folks at Hostcolor did alert me about my high CPU utilization and they did add a second layer of security for me. It’s […]
Onyx for vSphere Web Client – Automate creation of PowerShell Scripts
A very long time ago I wrote about Onyx for vSphere. At that time there wasn’t any vSphere web client, but the magic to see Onyx in action was impressive. First thing you might ask if you’re not old school or if just starting with VMware virtualization technologies is What is Onyx? It’s simple. Onyx […]
How to Install Photon OS In VMware vSphere
VMware Photon is a new project started this year within VMware, which shall allow faster deployment of containerized applications from developer’s desktops (Workstation, Fusion) to the production environment (vSphere). It is a minimalist Linux distribution allowing to install container runtime environment which is able to run those “containerized apps”, those apps that are pre-packaged and pre-configured […]
How To Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client v3
Newly released ESXi host client v3 (already) has been up for few weeks. I’ve been quite busy visiting VMworld Barcelona and VeeamON recently. However I’m back home, at Reunion, and can fully work as usually. Homelabbing, blogging and providing IT services to few clients localy here where I live. Today we will focus on quick […]
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