If you have just installed the latest VMware vSphere 6 for example and want to patch, but you don’t know how? This guide is especially useful if your ESXi host is not connected to the internet. Many folks are waiting for VMware to “polish” the 6.0 release the latest patches which don’t break things, but […]
Seven Editions of Windows 10 has been introduced
Windows 10 release is approaching and Microsoft has released the 7 editions of Windows 10, which will be released. The W10 launch is fixed for this summer and Microsoft shall be in time. However there will no longer be future versions. The Windows 10 will be the last Windows edition. Every other new release will […]
What is Storage Spaces Direct? It’s a Software Based Storage by Microsoft
Another vendor who will jump into the hyper-converged wagon – Microsoft. Storage Spaces Direct is in preview in Windows server 2016 which is upcoming server software from Microsoft. Storage spaces direct has the same principle as VMware VSAN – leverages local disks of each host (DAS storage) in order to create a shared pool of clustered storage […]
Application Performance Management for Dummies
There is a free e-Book which I found interesting. It’s a book that treats a subject which is important at small, big or the biggest datacenters. It’s an Application performance. There are Application performance management (APM) software tools which helps to monitor and troubleshoot those mission-critical applications. Application Performance Management for Dummies is a free […]
Building Energy Efficient ESXi Home Lab – parts list
The main problem with an ESXi home lab running 7/7 is usually one factor – Power consumption as a primary ongoing cost. Especially when you run a lab with a several hosts. Additional factors like cooling or noise can be usually solved by moving the server(s) to the separate room with natural airflow, but the power consumption is […]
VMware VSAN Health Check Plugin Released
There is a new plugin for VMware VSAN 6.0 which allows troubleshooting and monitoring of VSAN 6.0 installations and implementations. There are 2 versions of the plugin where the first one is for vCenter Server on Linux (VCSA) – this is an RPM file. And the second one is for Windows based vCenter server 6.0 – a […]
ScaleIO Free Download starting May 29th – from EMC
Another free Software Defined storage will be available soon. This time it’s EMC’s ScaleIO Software! The news came from (big) Virtual Geek’s blog, and you certainly know the person behind – Chad Sakac. I’m not an EMC person and I’m not familiar with the solution, but I’m most likely interested in a hyper-converged software solution that […]
Mount VMFS Datastore – via GUI or via CLI [Guide]
Mount VMFS Datastore manually is sometimes necessary when working with DR plans. A volume that isn’t automatically mounted on the other side has to be mounted manually. Normaly SRM takes care of it. Also, sometimes when an existing VMFS volume is still present we have an option to keep an existing signature or choose to resignature. […]
Zerto Virtual Replication 4 Released
Zerto Virtual Replication 4 has been released. Together with latest VMware vSphere 6 support, the product has added new and useful functions and also got a “new coat” – A full HTML 5 based user interface. When I wrote about Zerto last time, they were preparing a new module which would allow to support different hypervisors at an almost-real […]
New Upcoming features from Veeam Management Pack v8 for System Center Operations Manager
The Veeam Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager is curently in pre-beta stage, but I was able to assist a presentation from Veeam showing upcoming features that will be packed in. Note that the management pack will also brings new support for VMware vSphere 6.0 environments as well. The admin will be able to […]
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