As an IT consultant there is often a situation where you need to recover POP password for a user who forgot it. Users are often having several POP e-mail accounts configured, whether is for work or not. And it’s usually not your responsibility if they are allowed or not. There is a quick way to […]
New Book – Essential Virtual SAN
Cormac Hogan (@cormacjhogan) and Duncan Epping (@duncanyb) are the authors of new book which has been released recently. Ben Fathi (CTO of VMware) and Charles Fan (SVP of VMware R&D) did wrote a foreword. By reading the foreword I learned that VSAN as a product was practically ready in June 2013, to be part of the […]
How-to Flash Dell Perc H310 with IT Firmware To Change Queue Depth from 25 to 600
Now, at first. This it totally unsupported by VMware or Dell, even if the firmware I’m flashing the card with is from Dell’s website. To tell you the whole story you should read My VSAN Journey and understand how the setup in my lab is built and why I’m doing this. I’m basically trying to […]
VMware VSAN Resynchronization and Rebalance Operations – New PDF
There is new PDF from VMware targeted for VSAN users, architects and IT admins. Recent change in VMware HCL concerning the queue depth of storage adapters (now there are only the ones with queue depth 256 and higher – see the ones are concerned in this VMware KB ) brought more questions concerning availability and […]
VMware Compliance Checker Utility – Did You Try?
This product is a free download from VMware Website and can check your existing installation of VMware vSphere against the VMware vSphere Hardening Guidelines. Can check vSphere environment since 4.0 up to 5.5, where up to 5 ESXi hosts is checked with single pass. The results shows from within the tool but can get printed, […]
VMware ESXi S.M.A.R.T Health Monitoring
With Flash storage around gaining popularity, it might be interesting to see not only if the performance is what’s should be but also the health of disks whether the’re magnetic or Flash drives. I was looking on checking somehow the S.M.A.R.T values. There are two ways to check it on VMware ESXi, and it can be […]
VMware Workstation Tech Preview July 2014 Shows Virtual Hardware 11 Possibilities
Workstation tech preview July 2014 has been announced recently at the community site. This release brings new OS support – Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, OpenSUSE, but also other new enhancements. One of the most important is new virtual hardware 11 (vmx-11). As usually, VMware says that it’s not sure if those features will made it into […]
Unitrends (PHD) Virtual Backup 8.0 Product Review
I recently tested a beta version of the Unitrends Virtual Backup v 8.0 (previously PHD Virtual) product. While I have reviewed PHD products in the past, I immediately noticed the major interface re-design on this new release. In fact, this virtual backup product now has over 120 new features and enhancements according to Unitrends with […]
Bitvise SSH Client (Tunnelier) – Another SSH Client
Bitvise SSH Client (Tunnelier) is a small SSH client, which is an alternative to well known Putty. Usually SSH client is used interactively, so it will only run when a user runs it. But it’s also possible to launch unattended session and run scripted commands or file transfers. It’s also possible to maintain an SSH connection […]
FreeNAS 9.2.1.6 update – Updates and Performance Improvements of ZVS ZVOLS for ISCSI with VMWare
New FreeNAS 9.2.1.6 update brings several new updates which get the software up-to-date with latest release of Samba for example and according to the release notes, there is a performance improvements of of ZVS ZVOLS when used in ISCSI with VMWare vSphere or ESXi. For home labers FreeNAS offers an easy way to build a home […]
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