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VMware VSAN 6.1 Details

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VMware VSAN 6.1 is already third release of VMware VSAN. This release brings an enterprise features which brings stretched cluster features, NVMe and Diablo Ultra DIMM support (storage closer to the CPU, on memory-stick), but also enhanced usability and management with new Virtual SAN On-Disk format upgrade and disk group bulk claiming. Also an integration […]

VMware Validated Designs Introduced

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Hey, it’s VMworld Time again! Enjoy the show wherever you are! This year I’ll be present in VMworld Barcelona, so my readers, enjoy some writing during VMworld US, from my remote location – Reunion Island. Today’s post is about VMware Validated Designs which are introducing new way to work with design, architecture and implementation. VMware […]

Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO – Easy Convert With NTlite

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There is a cool utility to convert Windows 10 install.esd to an ISO image. The main purpose of the tool is however to customize Windows images, removing components from ISOs, driver integration, language packs or apps integration. Few weeks back when I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 10 to my USB stick I did it in […]

Tintri All-Flash VM-Aware With OS 4.0 details

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Few days back there has been an announce from one of the pioneers of the VM-aware storage – Tintri. A new Tintri All-Flash architecture with new All-Flash hardware models has been announced, as well as Tintri OS 4.0 which feature QoS per VM. Tintri is compatible together with VMware vSphere 5.x and 6.x (NFS), Red […]

Simplivity Omnistack 3.0 Announced With Up To 30% increase in IO performance

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Simplivity has announced Omnistack 3.0 Data Virtualization Platform. The third version of their hyperconverged architecture brings up to 30% more IO performance for real world workloads, new hardware nodes targets ROBO deployments and they also adds significant enhancements to data protection (backup and recovery) and global unified management capabilities. New nodes are discovered automatically without […]

Windows 10 Cleanup Windows.old Directory After Upgrade

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After upgrading to Windows 10 you might wonder that it would bee good idea to clean the old Windows files and files left after the succefull upgrade process finished. If you browse the root of your system drive, and you’ll probably find two directories quite large in size — $Windows.~BT, and $Windows.~WS, and also a Windows.old […]

Windows 10 RSAT RTM – Download Your Copy

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Microsoft just released Windows 10 RSAT RTM (Remote Server Administration Tools) for Windows 10. You certainly know what those tools are for, so I skip that. What’s part of the release package is the fact that not all the roles and features of a Windows Server 2016 TP3 can be managed with those tools. But […]

Rubrik Data Management – New Aproach For VMware Backups?

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Rubrik is a new startup company which I have had first occasion to see during my #VFD event in Boston, where their presentation really surprised me (and I wasn’t the only one) as they are giving a storage and backup completely different approach for today’s hybrid environments based still mostly on on-premise deployments, with cloud […]

vROPs Management Pack for VMware VSAN 6.0

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The news just came in from VMware blog and I’d like to share it with our readers as many of them has been waiting for this one. There is a new management pack for vROPs and this pack can manage VMware VSAN 6.0. The management pack has not only the VSAN 6.0 add-ons, but can […]