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vSphere Public Beta – With VVols!

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vSphere public beta. The next release. It’s quite unusual for VMware as previous years the beta stayed private (except for VSAN, during the beta stage perhaps). VMware has made a public beta of vSphere available to anyone who wish to join. While the vSphere beta IS public (anyone can join) it’s also a strictly confidential. […]

List of VMware Reviewer’s Guides – Free How-to Guides With Graphics

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I thought that it might be a good idea to gather a list some available VMware Reviewer’s guides.  The reviewers guides are a good “tools” when learning new product by installing it in a home lab or as a POC project. Reviewer’s guides (or sometimes called evaluator’s guides or deployment guides) are step-by-step PDFs how-to’s. The evaluator’s guides […]

How to Add Padding and Border to Images in WordPress

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Since the release of WordPress 3.9 the advanced options for images are gone. It’s no longer possible to use the previous options which allowed to put margins and padding, or image border. In the old version you click on an image, click advanced settings and here you go, you can edit image properties – border, vertical space, […]

Book Review – Disaster Recovery Using VMware Replication and vCenter SRM

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Disaster Recovery Using VMware Replication and vCenter SRM is an In depth book which walks you through the different scenarios possible with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMware vSphere Replication (VR). I was nicely surprised by the quality of the book and the details, including screenshots. The author of the book, Abhilash GB (VMware vExpert, […]

VMware Mirage 5 How-to Upgrade From Previous Release

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VMware Mirage 5.0 which has been released recently and, brings new features but slightly complicate the upgrade procedure where you have to basically uninstall all components first…. The uninstall before install of the v5.0 is apparently due to some new functions that has been introduced, but for future releases the process will be simplified where only […]

VyOS – Vyatta Open Source

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If you ever used Vyatta before or not, It’s worth to test it. During a long time, there was Vyatta as an OpenSource router/firewall. I just recently discovered that Vyatta is no more and that Vyata’s Brocade acquisition stopped further availability. This led to new free VyOS, which is a free and opensource version of Vyatta […]

VSAN Ready Nodes from Dell, Fujitsu, HP and SuperMicro – details, specs and models available

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VMware has published a blog post announcing a VSAN Ready Nodes from Dell, Fujitsu, HP and SuperMicro. You’ll be able to download a PDF from this post, where you’ll see the specifications and details concerning each node. I have reported already on the way to check the existing hardware parts for compatibility for VSAN in […]

VDP Advanced Can Backup Applications Which Aren’t Virtualized Yet – Did You Know?

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I found out about it when browsing the VDP advanced FAQ – check the document from VDP advanced page at VMware. VDP Advanced Can Backup Applications Which Aren’t Virtualized. I have seen many businesses which still keeps some of their workflows on physical servers, like SQL or Exchange. That’s where VDP advanced can be used, […]

How-to check Queue Depth Of Storage Adapter or Storage Device

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My VSAN lab uses Dell h310 with queue depth 25. A low VM count with low contention should be fine. I know, but they were on VMware HCL and they were cheap on eBay. While the adapters work out of the box, they had an issue – deactivating one memory channel, which I solved. Recently I found […]