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vSphere 6 Features – VSAN 6.0 Technical Details

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VMware vSphere 6 also brings VSAN 6.0 which brings some significant performance enhancements (As twice as fast in hybrid setup OR 5 times faster in All-Flash setup!!) and new features which the one really excites is that VSAN now allows to be a Flash only (All-Flash), that means that no spinning media is no longer necessary. […]

vSphere 6 Features – vCenter Server 6 Details, (VCSA and Windows)

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VMware vSphere 6 introduces vCenter Server 6 which, again, exists in two different platforms – Windows or Linux (SLES based VCSA). This time however the vCenter Server VCSA based virtual appliance offers equal functions than Windows based vCenter server. In this post we’ll look at vSphere 6 Features – vCenter Server 6 Details. Linux based VCSA has […]

How-to Upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.x to Windows 10 Using Windows Update

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The final release of Windows 10 isn’t available yet but if you’re testing upgrades of existing computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8 because you want to see how it goes, you can also test the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.x to Windows 10 Using Windows Update. Note that Microsoft has announced a Free upgrade for […]

StarWind Virtual SAN Product Review

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StarWind Virtual SAN is a software based solution allowing to create a shared storage for VMware ESXi hypervisor. Not only that StarWind can create a shared storage, but it can also be a pool of HA and fault-tolerant storage served to hypervisor’s VMs. VMware vSphere and Hyper-V are supported platforms, but today I’ll focus on […]

How-to Backup and Restore VM in VSquare Backup

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VSquare Backup is new backup solution (agent-less) for VMware and Hyper-V infrastructures.  The particularity of the offering is that it’s a subscription based solution. Today I’ll show How-to Backup and Restore VM in VSquare Backup. The admin console called Anywhere Administration Console allows to setup the connection to the VSquare backup servers. The connection to the […]

vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d Released – not only maintenance release

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VMware has released vCenter Server  5.5 Update 2d. ESXi host builds stays the same, no update here. This release of vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d fixes many bugs but also changes some default behaviors in DRS. So it’s already 11th update since 5.5 GA version! Check out the release notes here. Here is a quote concerning […]

3CX Phone System Review

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3CX Phone system is a software based IP PBX which replaces the traditional hardware PBX. The solution is based on a Windows server which can be virtualized with VMware. VMware vSphere 5.x and above is a supported virtualization platform, but you can also use Hyper-V. The server part collaborates with clients which can be either software based phones […]

vSphere Client In Different Language [How-to]

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It’s possible to execute the vSphere client in different language. vSphere Windows client (C#) and also vSphere Web client. Without re-installing of course. The steps are fairly simple but I wanted to document for myself, and thought that it might also be usefull for others. The use case for this? I can’t tell for languages […]

Rackware Management Module – RMM. How it works?

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Rackware is a relatively new software company founded in 2009 which I discovered recently. They also took a place as a sponsor on our website. Check out Rackware website for further info if DR is your interest. They provide software system called Rackware Management Module – RMM which can be used as DR scenario from […]