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VMturbo Operations Manager 5.0 Adds Network Control Module and More

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VMturbo just released v 5.0 of their flagship software – VMturbo Operations Manager. The product matured over time with important releases but the 5.0 has added an important one – network control module.  VMturbo places automatically workloads communicating often, together in order to minimize east-west traffic and reduce latency. One could achieve the same using […]

How-to restore computer account with Veeam Backup and Replication Free version And Track Changes On AD Objects

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Veeam availability suite has some goodies inside. One of them is Free Veeam Explorer For Active Directory.  Veeam Availability Suite v8 which has been released recently also has Veeam One v8 product providing monitoring, and capacity planning. Both products are compatible with latest version of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Today we show How-to restore computer […]

StorMagic SvSAN 5.2 for VMware and Hyper-V Has Also Write-back caching (SSD)

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StorMagic has been around since few years now and in the past their simple approach for mirroring data with two ESXi hosts was one of the solutions that I’ve been looking at to for small environments. The recent release of StorMagic 5.2 brought also some more data services like Write-back caching (using SSDs) or Data Migration between […]

Veeam Availability Suite v8 Released

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Veeam has released Veeam Availability Suite v8 which is a major release of their product. Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam One are the pillar parts of Veeam Availability Suite v8. Over 100 features announced and many enhancements, Veeam’s innovation never stops. It’s this innovation which makes their products unique. I did shoot also short […]

Zentyal Server 4.0 – full AD and MS Exchange Integration

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Zentyal Server 4.0 is major release of this popular distribution which more and more has the capability to replace Microsoft services inside of the enterprise. The 4.0 release which went out few days back offers native Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory compatibility. The distribution is packaged via latest Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (Trusty) distribution, but can be installed via […]

Patching and Patching – Set it and forget for Routers Is The way To Go

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Enterprise Administrators to keep their systems up to date are usually in situation when they have to deal with tons of patches. Depending on many factors like for example how many different OS and types of OS they run in their (virtualized) environments. Patching of VMs or physical servers is important, however patching of routers […]

PowerCLI 5.8 R1 Reference Poster – Free Download

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VMware posters were always very popular. Those free posters could usually found at HOL during VMworlds or you could download your copy as a PDF and print. If you’re learning PowerShell then you will love this new PowerCLI 5.8 R1 poster which has new and updated commands. Very useful autodeploy commands (with examples) or TOP […]

Veeam Failover Plans – 1 click failovers and More goodness from V8

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Innovation never stops at Veeam and they shall release version 8 of their flagship product this quarter. During VMworld Barcelona I could gather some further details on what’s expected in Veeam Availability Suite 8, but not all features has been unweiled yet. There is a lot of new – over 100 new features planned! If you haven’t checked […]

6.4 TB of Data on Single SSD Backed by Internal RAID – Upcoming model of NVMe SSD from OCZ

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If you have passed by the OCZ stand (Now part of Toshiba Group) during this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2014 you could have probably spotted a new upcoming SSD drive they were showing up. the format was like the classic 2.5′ format, but twice thicker. Destined for the enterprise customers, the drive will use new connector […]