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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 […]

Royal TS – A Very Complete Remote Connection Manager

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Royal TS is a very complete remote connection manager that I had an occasion to discover recently after requesting my NFR copy. It’s truly cross platform, available for Widnows, OSX, iOS or Android. It has a very nice UI which allows management of your remote sessions for RDP, VNC, TightVNC, Terminal, web page, command task. The […]

Horizon 6 Download Available

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VMware made Horizon 6 Download available. Freshly released Horizon 6 Suite binaries are available. Major release of the suite which includes Horizon View 6, Horizon Workspace 2.0  (haven’t seen the Mirage 5.0 yet so the latest release of Mirage is still 4.4.3). Horizon View 6 is a major release of the product with some major […]

Free PowerShell Script Browser and Script Analyzer

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There is a free utility from Microsoft which allows to browse published PowerShell script on Technet script center repository. A repository where there is over 9000 script samples. The utility lets you search within the environment.  The searches can be done through a window where you can also sort the scripts by date, popularity, author or […]