It’s time to do another home lab build! This time I want to break the RAM barrier for Homelab white box. In the past when I use to build a white boxes at the end I got always stuck not by CPU performance, but RAM limit. With 24Gb, 32Gb or 64Gb RAM respectively. No matter how […]
vSphere Data Protection 6.0 is “Advanced” By Default
One of the news coming from VMware about vSphere release is the fact that new vSphere Data Protection 6.0 product will by default be the “Advanced” version. It means that there will no longer be VDP advanced to buy and that the version of VDP 6.0 bundled with vSphere 6.0 will have all the features […]
Free VMware Training – 2h of vCloud Air [Fundamentals] self paced
Free VMware Training which is two hours long is available at VMware and allows to get started with vCloud Air, understand the basics, but also get in the deep details concerning networking and tools used with vCloud air. Tools like the web based portal or vCloud connector. What’s vCloud air for? Remote site for your datacenter, DR […]
ESXi Home Lab – Get a quality and comfortable case
One of the mistakes in the past that I’ve done when building ESXi Home Lab was that I wanted to stay cheap as much as I could on choosing an entry level PC case. Or once I took an option to build a NAS in mini PC case. It’s possible, but I remember that the […]
Building Power Efficient ESXi Server – Start with an Efficient Power Supply
When it comes to build a power friendly ESXi host, one of the first things is to think about power supply. Take in mind that the host will be running 7/7 and so power efficiency is parameter to take into account. After all, next upgrade you might be planning for your lab will be 2-3 years […]
Super Control Panel For Windows 7/8/10 – God Mode [Guide]
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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