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Super Control Panel For Windows 7/8/10 – God Mode [Guide]

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Today’s post is a lightweight post, easy to do tweak on your Windows Workstation or laptop. The tweak you perhaps heard about, it’s about some kind of Super control panel also called Windows “God mode” which allows to access via single folder to everything, or almost. Most of the settings you usually access on Windows is […]

Three Ways to Downgrade Virtual Machine Hardware Version

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If you need to downgrade virtual hardware version of your VM there are several choices. I have previously wrote about this possibility and why one would want to do it here and here (for Wkst local VMs only). Basically VMware supports three ways to downgrade virtual machine hardware version. But first let’s go back in time […]

Perform What-If analysis on VMware Host failure with this new Free Utility from VMware Labs

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There is new utility at VMware labs website, which allows to perform a what-if analysis in case there is a VMware Host failure. Possibility to simulate hos failure is not current feature of vSphere so this little service has some good reasons to exists. And who knows, perhaps it will make it to the vNext release of vSphere…. […]

ESXi 6.0 Security and Password Complexity Changes

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VMware ESXi 6.0 increased scalability by doubling almost all the numbers. Cluster size is now 64 hosts (previously 32) with up to 8000 VMs in single cluster. You can read all the details about scalability of vSphere 6 and VMware ESXi hypervisor in my detailed post here – vSphere 6 Features – New Config Maximums, Long […]

Free Android App vMaxGuide from VMware Labs

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In case you’re fan of free applications there is good news. There is a Free Android App vMaxGuide which is a new free fling application by VMware Labs. The app gives you quick reference of configuration maximums for different versions of vSphere. The application is available as Android app for now and it’s free download. This app […]

How to Install VMware VCSA 6.0

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VMware VCSA (vCenter Server appliance) is more robust and more scalable. Details in my post which has the details of vCenter server 6.0 (Windows and Linux versions). While deployment of Windows based vCenter server is probbably more usuall in the enterprise, the VCSA isn’t that popular just yet. The reason is certainly the previous limitations […]

vSphere 6 Features – Mark or Tag local disk as SSD disk

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In vSphere 6 you can mark local disk as SSD disk (or we can say tag). If you’re planning to activate VSAN, you’ll need some SSDs, at least one per disk group. And you’ll need at least one disk group per host. There is a new feature which is part of the VMware VSAN 6.0 announced […]

vSphere 6 Features – New Config Maximums, Long Distance vMotion and FT for 4vCPUs

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VMware vSphere 6 Features: vMotion is one of the emblematic features of VMware Virtualization technology. vMotion is what many of the IT guys (including me) thinks is the “thing that got me hooked” into virtualization. It’s magic. vMotion has been here over a decade. Several improvements were already implemented since 2004 like storage vMotion (sVMotion), multiple […]

vSphere 6 Features – vSphere Client (FAT and Web Client)

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VMware vSphere 6 brought new changes into the web client, but not only. The changes are affecting also the Windows (FAT) client. Yes the one you keep using…. The new Web client however is much faster. For example if you remember the login speed in version 5.0, 5.1 or 5.5, that the login speed was […]