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Samsung RAPID Mode Performance Increase

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Since some time I was using my 64 Gb whitebox for different sort of stuff principally as a working system with VMware Workstation installed, but also as an multimedia home system. One of the SSDs is Samsung 840 Pro. With the SAMSUNG RAPID technology activated the SSD showed some spectacular results. Recently I tried to […]

How-to Migrate a VMware vRealize Operations Manager vApp from one cluster to another

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You might encounter a situation where you have vCOPS 5.x running in your environment. As you know VMware vCOPS 5.8 is a vAPP (2 VMs) so you can’t simply vMotion the vApp as a whole to another cluster. vCOPs (vCenter Operations Manager) now renamed to vROPs (vRealize Operation Manager) was architected untill the version 5.8 […]

VSAN datastore in cluster does not have capacity message

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I had this message in my lab recently after deactivating VSAN and VSAN datastore. The message “vsan datastore in cluster does not have capacity” won’t go away even after reboots. The VSAN datastore <vsanDatastore> in cluster <cluster> in datacenter <datacenter> does not have capacity. If I go to Manage > Settings > Virtual SAN > […]

Set Session Timeout to Never Expire in vROPS 6.0

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In the latest version of vROPS ( vRealize Operations Manager) it’s very easy to setup the session timeout to never expire. This wasn’t the case always in vCOPS where you had to manually hack the web.xml file in the UI VM of the vCOPS and change the value there. The vROPS 6.0 you can set […]

Veeam v8 Reference Poster – Free Download

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There is a nice free poster for Veeam Backup and Replication v8, which you can download and which shows certain architectural points, like deployment methods but also requirements (where to install what) etc. The poster also shows different deployments methods and features details from Veeam v8. The free PDF poster is available at cloud-land.com maintained by Andre […]

ESXi Free Version – 3 Ways to Clone a VM

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When you have an ESXi standalone hypervisor running in a lab or test environment, it’s not possible (simple way) to clone a VM. If the host is managed by vCenter server, than it’s a simple right click > clone VM. But in situations where vCenter server is not available, what’s your options? The ESXi Free Version is […]

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide – Get Your Copy

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VMware App Volumes (previously Cloud Volumes) are generally available from VMware. The product has now been integrated and can be I had the chance to see the live demo during this year’s VMworld and also recorded a video from the presentation. It’s pretty impressive to see almost unlimited number of applications being delivered to a […]

VMware Log Insight 2.5 – vRealize Log Insight, upgrade and PAK management walkthrough

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VMware released Log Insight 2.5 product, which name is now vRealize Log Insight 2.5. In case you were running version 2.0 previously you can upgrade with a .PAK file and in this post I’ll show you the process and also how easy it is to update or install new content pak from within the UI. […]