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My VSAN Journey – Part 1 – The homebrew “node”

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VMware VSAN product is nice piece of software which allows using local DAS storage as well as local SSD(s) in each host to configure a pooled datastore. The product shall be released in 2014 and you can find all the necessary info and guides through VMware VSAN community page, where you can currently download public […]

Is your SSD in a good shape? Get Notified before problems strikes with HD Sentinel

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HD Sentinel is a multi OS monitoring and testing utility – Windows, Linux or DOS – for SSDs and HDDs. It’s a tool which monitors and detect problems, and if there are some problems, it has a capability to launch a repair actions or trigger an external backup software to start backing up a faulty […]

VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals – Free Interactive Learning Course

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There is a very interesting interactive learning course from VMware, and it’s free. It’s about networking. If you want to learn about VDS, vCNS and VXLAN or even NSX – the training is for you. The training has 3 modules where the 3rd module discusses some advanced VMware network virtualization solutions like vCNS, VXLAN and NSX…. […]

VMware vCenter Server 5.5b released

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VMware has released vCenter Server 5.5b. This release comes not longer after the 5.5a release (31 of October) and fixes some bugs which were present. Bugs which were affecting installation, upgrade or work with vSphere Web client. VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, so the Build 1476387 is the latest vCenter server release. Update: VMware has released vCenter […]

Nice Free alternative to manage MySQL and MicrosoftSQL Databases

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A nice alternative for working with SQL and MySQL databases called HeidiSQL. The utility is a donationware and the creator of the tool, Ansgar Becker provides it as an OpenSource – free utility. A very handy IMHO as you can create and save several logins/passwords within the utility as you probably manage several SQL or […]

Top 10 most visited posts in 2013

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The 2013 is heading slowly to the end. It’s inevitable. Each one of us getting older, but I say it’s like a good french wine – getting better with age… -:). So today I wanted to do a recap post showing which posts people were reading most this year and what kind of posts they […]

Disk2VHD 2.0 – Free Utility to Convert Systems into VHDX – Microsoft Virtual Disks

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Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell from Microsoft has released an updated utility for conversion of physical systems (PCs, Servers) into virtual disk files (VHD). Disk2VHD is “younger brother” of vCenter Server Converter Standalone, which is an utility for VMware professionals and IT admins (supporting latest vmx-10). Disk2VHD 2.0 is Free Utility to Convert Systems into VHDX or […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 3.1 released

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Zerto has released another update to their product – Zerto Virtual Replication 3.1. This new release further improves Zerto’s capability to protect workflows across remote sites and enhances the capability of Zerto’s Cloud Manager (ZCM), which is basically a dashboard allowing to manage multiple data center’s protection from single console. Zerto Virtual Replication 3.1 release brings […]

Nakivo 3.8 Released – vSphere 5.5 compatible

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Nakivo has released new version of their backup product – Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.8. This release brings a compatibility with latest VMware vSphere 5.5.  Also they introduced a new enhancement which enables to check and self-heal a backup repository in case of data corruption, which might happens during network disruptions or power failure. The […]