Some sources reported that Microsoft has removed the possibility to shadow RDS connections in Windows 2012, but then put it back in the Windows 2012 R2 release. I quickly checked in my lab on two VMs, but saw that both versions of Windows Server 2012 allows that. I double checked that and unfortunately the statement […]
Clean Installation and Configuration of vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U1 (VCSA)
In this video you’ll see the detailed process of installation and configuration of vCenter Server 5.5 U1 appliance. The installation and configuration takes minutes. I cut perhaps 2-3 min when I recorded the video, not more. It gives you the rough idea of the process and implication. The install process got really simple and the […]
vExpert 2014 announced – check it out!
This year’s vExperts 2014 were announced! Check it out. I’ve been honored again as a vExpert this year. Great thanks to VMware and vExpert team behind the program. It’s Correy Romero who announced the news on the VMTN blog. This year over 700 vExperts (exactly 754 vExperts this year) were named. Here is the full list of […]
Double Commander – Free File manager Windows, Linux, MacOS
I stumbled through this file manager called Double Commander. It’s not the first one I was testing in the past. If you remember, last year I have actually published an article which showed another free file manager based on tabbed approach. Today I’ll show you another free utility, a file manager which might be useful […]
Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 8.x
One of the annoyances of W8.x OS (there are others too) is the fact that pressing WIN (Windows) + R and then typing cmd gives you command prompt window, but without elevated privileges. This is quite annoying because even with being member of the local administrator group you get restricted on that – you need Elevated Command […]
vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – scale up or scale out?
Quite a few cool posts on home labs lately triggers this post concerning vSphere Homelabs in 2014 – designs and evolution. There was the first one I spotted on Erik Bussink’s blog yesterday which talks about Shift in homelab designs. Erik is right when saying that the requirements for homelab are exploding. And now he just […]
Check out the TOP vBlog 2014 Results
Last night I was watching (or trying to) the TOP vBlog 2014 voting live with @ericsiebert @jtroyer @RickVanover and @davidmdavis. Awesome event, great competition and excellent motivation for the future. This year there was 320 blogs participating. The list is just huge….-:) There was over 1400 votes this year compared to around 1300 last year. The number of […]
Veeam Explorer for Active Directory (VEAD) – How-to use
Few days back Veeam announced the public beta availability of new cool utility which allows item-level recovery of AD objects. Veeam Explorer for Active Directory (VEAD) allows exploring the objects by “mounting” directly the ntds.dit – the AD database. The cool thing is that in fact you not only restoring the objects, but also the passwords, […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.0 beta release adds Ms Exchange Objects Recovery
Nakivo has published beta 4.0 release of their product – Nakivo Backup & Replication v 4.0. I have thoroughly reported on the capabilities in previous releases here. This is the current release which brought Dynamic Licensing, Multi-Tenancy and Self-Service for service providers. Few days back they announced new Beta release of the upcoming version 4.0 which brings […]
My VSAN Journey Part 3 – VSAN IO cards – search the VMware HCL
I’m in a phase to build my own VSAN home-brewed cluster. I’m using mostly consumer parts, but where I probably won’t, it’s the IO card. Because it’s the IO card which make the disks visible to VSAN. It’s the card which will affect your system’s stability and reliability, so even I’m planing for homelab, I […]
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