VMware vFlash Read Cache was introduced in vSphere 5.5 and continue to be present in vSphere 6.x. It allows to leverage local SSD in each host as a cache. Note that no extra VIBs need to be installed on ESXi host or no other software. All the necessary modules are built-in the ESXi 5.5 and […]
2 Nodes 10GbE Switch-Less Configs from Starwind
Starwind like many other software vendors has jumped into the “Hyperconvergent train”. Starwind Software is known for their flagship product Starwind SAN which is already on v8. But since recently they’re also offering bundles (software + hardware + backup + management). They’re proposing bundles for small, medium or larger business starting with 2 nodes or more, where […]
How to Get Started with Ravello Systems – VM Import Tool
Ravello Systems allows many different use cases. Training labs, simulations of production environment or just creating and spinning a couple of VMs from scratch. You can not only use those cloud services through Ravello at a very very reasonable cost but also learn, test or execute different configurations and setups if you don’t have enough resources […]
vRealize Automation 7 Simple install
It’s been some time that vRealize Automation 7 has been released and I reported about that in my post, but still haven’t had the chance to test it in the lab. That’s why today’s post. vRealize Automation 7 Simple Install is for today. Know that another type of installation is Enterprise install which is destined […]
Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0
This post is a guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me on Twitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. As I haven’t had the […]
vSphere Web Client integration plug-in fails
The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This might however be a problem in situations when the OVF file has properties which are visible only through Web client as the “old” vSphere […]
How To Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter
This is a usual situation. You connect to vCenter with self-signed certificate installed and you get this warning on your web browser, that the security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. It’s normal as the certificate isn’t really trusted by nobody, but you. And it’s you who gets […]
VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones
Another post focusing on VMware desktop certification exam today. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones. Yes, pool settings, linked clones etc. Good stuff. All exam objectives will be on our VCP6-DTM page (for now it’s work-in-progress). But in order to do that we must first prepare a source (golden image) of that first pool, […]
Altaro Full Test Restore in a Sandbox
Verification of backups is important. Sometimes you can have a backup taken, everything seems to correct, but then when you need to boot the restored VM you have a failure. For a variety of reasons like file corruption etc. Altaro allows to restore a backed up VM to a sandbox where the VM is booted up […]
VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs
VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]
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