Long awaited Veeam v8 Update 2 brings compatibility for vSphere 6.0, but with that also a possibility to (finally) backup FT protected VMs. Veeam Backup and Replication v8 Update 2 allows also the IT admin to use free Veeam Endpoint Backup in his/her environment, to monitor/restore files from those within the Veeam v8 backup console as those Endpoint […]
ESXi 6.0 Downgrade Options – lab time
If you’re new to VMware or still learning, gaining experience this post might be your interest as I’ll be talking about ESXi 6.0 downgrade options but also about the possibility to downgrade VMware infrastructure as a whole. It’s not something that cannot be done, but some preparations must be done previously in order to be able to […]
TCPView and Curports – Tools to track open ports and connections
When you are having doubt about some program installed on your system or want to quickly check which ports are opened on your desktop there might be a time to check which tool fits for this situation. There are tools to track open ports and show detailed listings of your network connections. Tools which can help […]
Upgrade ESXi with VMware Update Manager (VUM) – [Guide]
On few of my previous posts I showed you how to patch ESXi hosts via CLI (Putty) or simply via CD/DVD where you put the CD in the server > reboot > change boot order in BIOS > upgrade. Tedious, but works. Both methods are good when working in small environments or on ESXi hosts […]
New Free Community Tool – All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility
There is a new free community tool which has made its apparition yesterday. The news came out via Brian Graf’s tweet pointing the to the blog post of Rawlinson Rivera who introduces the usage and scope. Free = yes, but unsupported by VMware… The All-Flash VSAN configuration utility allows to tag/untag flash devices as capacity […]
Patch VMware vCenter Server (VCSA)
In this guide you’ll learn how-to patch VMware vCenter Server. Since there has been few changes since the vCenter Server 5.5, now in the vCenter server 6 the things works little bit differently. Previous version of VMware vCenter server appliance has had a UI which if you remember was accessible through a port 5480, but […]
Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F
As you know my lab got an addition this year, the Supermicro’s Single CPU board a X10SRH-CLN4F model. In this post, we will be upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F. It is a board with four 1-Gigs Intel NICs, IPMI, and lots of other features which I previously missed on consumer based boards. It’s […]
VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more…
VMware Cloud-Native Applications is new model of application distribution across nodes in clustered environment. Today VMware is announcing Cloud-Native applications based on several projects based on open source building blocks for containerized applications. Projects which are Open source and which will in the future allows easier deployment, management and securing of infrastructures which are becoming more […]
Free Clipboard manager called Remembr – Friday Freebie
Today we’ll have a look at this is a very lightweight Freeware called Remembr which allows keeping more than one item in your clipboard – it’s Free Clipboard Manager. That’s the always problematic when you can only keep single item in the clipboard that next time you copy some text you actually overwrite (and loose) […]
Rackware for vCloud Air – DR scenarios for Virtual and Physical Workloads
In my latest article on Rackware I have reported about their solution based on Rackware Management Module (RMM) which is used for DR scenarios for Virtual and Physical Workloads. The disaster recovery scenario uses RMM installed within vCloud Air which orchestrates the DR and syncing all the workloads you need to protect: Virtual and physical. You might […]
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