PernixData FVP 2.0 has been released last week adding RAM as an additional vector of acceleration, NFS support in addition to block based storage, and also other features that I’ll report in this post like fault domain or adaptive network compression . Fault domain, what is it? Fault domain allows defining the FVP topology based […]
Shellshock (aka Bashdoor) Bug and VMware – Where are We?
Recent Shellshock bug in Linux Bash revealed the 24th of September was often compared to Heartbleed bug in terms of severity. Just to remind you, it affects all Linux/Unix systems using the original bash (which has been re-released for new distros already). OSX users were told to deactivate the advanced Unix services, but apparently even […]
Workstation 11 and Player Pro 7 Announced With Up to 45% Performance Improvements
VMware has announced new version of VMware Workstation 11 and VMware Player Pro v.7. The products are not currently available for download, but we know what to expect when they will. Interesting to know that from the performance standpoint the upcoming Workstation 11 is giving 45% more performance on new Haswell CPUs taking advantage of new Haswell […]
Under the Hood: What Virtualization 2.0 Looks Like
I’ve been working for a project for VMware SMB recently. While I’m possibly good at promoting work of others or showing some tips for virtualization admins, it’s quite hard to find some words to promote my work, to do a self-plug… Today’s admins challenges are to maintain the application performance, data security and availability. They […]
How To Migrate VMware Workstation Inventory Settings
Today I’ll show you a quick tip in case you want to know How to migrate (or copy) VMware Workstation Inventory settings to another computer. There can be use cases that for example you’re preparing a class for few students and have to prepare few machines with identical labs pre-configured or similar scenarios. Or, Imagine […]
Fighting Over 2000 Spam Comments A Day – Here is How
I have been dealing more and more with spam comments lately. Apps for Spammers got smarter and Akismet just can’t handle them all anymore. Since when I started this blog few years back I had to deal with spam comments. The situation however does become increasingly painful since several months due to more and more […]
DR options of VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
In the past I have received few questions on VDP resiliency. Users usually like the “appliance” approach when it comes to backup software, but they want to be sure that they can take steps to get back in business if something gets wrong. Many things can happen to a VM don’t you think? In addition, […]
Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool by VMware Labs
VMware vSphere 5.5 has introduced support for applications which do have special requirements concerning Latency sensitivity. Perhaps it’s your interest and you should know that there is a new free utility at VMware Labs website called Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool. The tool has been released recently to help troubleshoot options concerning application latency. The tool is available […]
vSphere Replication With Single vCenter – How to configure?
VMware has recently updated many products after those has been announced during VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. I have reported on that in my detailed post which shows that 30 products parts are the part of the vSphere 5.8 suite, went out GA that day. vSphere Replication 5.0 was one of the announced products as well […]
How to Patch Free VMware ESXi Standalone Host
This guide will help folks which are new to virtualization or admins just starting with VMware virtualization, they run ESXi free version without vCenter. How to patch Free VMware ESXi standalone host is a common question I’m getting on regular basis and I though that I document that from the beginning to the end. If […]
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