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 […]
3 Ways To Shrink WinSXS Folder
With the time and new patches installed to Windows installations, the Windows WinSxS folder present since W7, W2008, W8 and in W8.1 gets more and more “fat” and takes valuable space. I’ve previously reported on easy way to shrink that winsxs folder in Windows 7 by installing a patch which adds a new function to […]
Veeam 7 Patch 4 to assure VSAN and SQL 2014 Compatibility
You may have missed that when it was officially announced by Veem few weeks ago. Veeam has released 4th patch for their flagship datacenter backup software – Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0. It’s a cumulative update, so you don’t have to install the previous 3 patches. The patch assures compatibility with VMware VSAN as previously […]
vSphere Public Beta – With VVols!
vSphere public beta. The next release. It’s quite unusual for VMware as previous years the beta stayed private (except for VSAN, during the beta stage perhaps). VMware has made a public beta of vSphere available to anyone who wish to join. While the vSphere beta IS public (anyone can join) it’s also a strictly confidential. […]
List of VMware Reviewer’s Guides – Free How-to Guides With Graphics
I thought that it might be a good idea to gather a list some available VMware Reviewer’s guides. The reviewers guides are a good “tools” when learning new product by installing it in a home lab or as a POC project. Reviewer’s guides (or sometimes called evaluator’s guides or deployment guides) are step-by-step PDFs how-to’s. The evaluator’s guides […]
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