VMware Paravirtual adapters were introduced back in 4.x and at the beginning there were some concerns. There were some issues if used with virtual machines that didn’t do a lot of IOPS, but that was resolved in vSphere 4.1. Otherwise PVSCSI offers 12% improvement in throughput at 18% less CPU. Today we’ll see how-to safely change virtual […]
IOMeter 1.1 Release
It’s been a while since IOMeter was updated. IOMeter 1.1 has some huge code changes according to the user guide. There are some some bug fixes as well in this new release. Important to note that if comparing the same workload between two different versions of IOMeter, you might not get the same results. It’s because […]
VMware vSphere Hardening Guide 5.5 U1 Released
A new update to hardening guide which matches now the latest VMware vSphere 5.5 release. There are wewly introduced four sections which matches the latest vSphere 5.5 U1 – Enable-VGA-Only-Mode, Disable-non-essential-3D-features, Change-sso-admin-password, Use-unique-roles. You might ask what this guide is for? The answer is simple. To help VMware administrators to make vSphere more secure with following simple tips […]
Free DebugDiag Tool v2 Update 1 – Process crashes, memory leaks, process performance
New update to Microsoft’s tool which can diagnose Process crashes, memory leaks and overall process performance has been released recently. The tool has been around for a while but now it’s available as a standalone MSI package (for x32 or x64). The utility is called DebugDiag and it’s a free download. This 2.0 U1 version includes an […]
Free ESXi host backup and restore utility with frontend GUI
Free ESXi host backup and restore utility allows backup and restore ESXi configuration. The backup/restore could be done only throug PowerCLI with commandlets Get-VMHostFirmware and Set-VMHostFirmware, but this utility called simply Host Backup & Restore GUI utility simplifies the process a bit. The utility tests if the host is a valid host and if maintenance mode […]
How-to delete orphaned Horizon View replica
After reinstalling composer server in my lab I was left with some orphaned replicas in the lab. While I was able to delete the virtual desktop VMs it was not possible to delete those replicas VM from within the vSphere client as the option is grayed out. The replica VM has some strange name as you […]
Zerto 3.5 Integrates Offsite Backup To The Replication Capabilities
Zerto Virtual Replication product gets more robust with more features for VMware administrators wanting to protect their workflows by replicating to the DR sites. Zerto 3.5 Integrates Offsite Backup To The Replication Capabilities which shows that it’s possible to protect workflows different ways. The offsite backup feature of Zerto 3.5 is one of many enhancements of Zerto’s product. […]
How-to restart VMware VDP webservices if you can’t login to web configuration interface
The other day I played with VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) in my lab and in one moment I wasn’t able to connect into the appliance via the web interface configuration address. You need to know how-to restart VDP webservices. By default the connection URL looks something like this: https://<your_vdp_ip_adress>:8543/vdp-configure/ The appliance was showing corectly the IP […]
How-to Create Multiboot USB stick by using awesome freeware called YUMI
Multiboot USB stick with bootable Linux Distributions, Acronis recovery bootable images or other tools can be easily created by using freeware application called YUMI. Having multiple distros on USB gives you not only option to run it as a live CD, but also the option to install a distro from the USB stick. You could possibly […]
vSphere Virtual Machine Management – detailed vSphere book focusing on VMs
vSphere Virtual Machine Management – This book focuces in depth on VM management in vSphere. It’s a very detailed book which was written by Rebecca Fitzhugh (@RebeccaFitzhug) and has over 300 pages. Quick look at the content shows you that you’ll get everything you need to know to create and manage VMs on vSphere with detailed […]
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