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VMware EVO:RAIL – New Hyper-Converged Solution By VMware

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VMware EVO:Rail is one of the newest and hottest news that is announced by VMware. It’s a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance which consists of EVO:RAIL Software bundle and 2U 4-Node hardware platform. It’s not VMware who provides the hardware, so the thoughts previously written elsewhere that VMware goes into a hardware business are cleared out. No, it’s a hardware partners […]

VMware Docker Integration

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This year’s VMworld will be full of news. It’s not secret now that one of the announces is VMware Docker Integration. The news is publicly available via this link of VMworld session –  SDDC3350 – VMware and Docker – Better Together.  This and other news from the conference will be “raining” during the days to […]

VMware Virtual SAN Sizing Tool

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There is new Online utility which assists in design considerations and automates the storage sizing calculations for VSAN clusters. The utility gathers requirements in order to give you as an output a full detailed specifications. The process is done in two steps: Step1: You need to enter your VMs characteristics – size of VMDK, number of […]

How-to Monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer – New PDF

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There is a new whitepaper provide by VMware which teaches you how to monitor VMware VSAN with a VMware VSAN Observer. It’s a utility which is baked in with vCenter server (since 5.5 U1) and which allows to dig deep into VSAN’s performance, see the IOPS, latency, Outstanding I/Os and congestions etc… It’s quite complex […]

Atlantis USX 2.0 – The New Hyper-Converged Leader?

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Atlantis computing just announced Atlantis USX 2.0 which brings some quite unique capabilities. If you don’t know Atlantis computing than you should read my article about diskless VDI architecture from Atlantis computing, which is another product they do – Fastest Virtual Desktop Experience – Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0 – desktops running in RAM. (BTW, […]

Configuring IP Pools – What are vSphere IP pools for?

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Configuring IP pools is easy. IP pools were first introduced with vSphere 4, but they’re not necessarily used by everyone. IP pools are necessary if you want to create or deploy a vApp. They provide a network identity to vApps. IP pool gives a network config to VMs that run in the vApp. So you’ll […]

3 Free Videos To Get Started With PowerShell

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Veeam has created Free Videos to get started with Powershell. Those videos which are 4 h in total helps to get started with PowerShell. Each video provides not only the video, but also link to presentation (PDF), the PowerShell code used in those videos and cheat sheet. It’s an excellent way to get started. There is also […]

Free Tool Friday – File Menu Tools

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File Menu Tools is free utility (or rather set of utilities) which installs on x86 or x64 systems. The goal of this free application is to ease the pain (as usually) and to make the life of th admin easier. We all seek to make our lives easier, right? Than read on because this utility […]

10 Days Free Trial With PluralSight Training – Try It

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Training is changing. The way we learn is changing. Before, to get the knowledge one had to travel to the nearest training center or a certified trainer had to come on site. Then the possibility to buy training on video support has become available. Companies like TrainSignal were the choice for getting latest and hottest trainings. […]