After few months in public beta, the VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone has been released. I wrote an article on that – Nice Update VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta) where I introduced the new features, like the support for Virtual Hardware version 9 or GUID Partition Table (GPT) Disk support. Also EXT 4 as an filesystem […]
VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Released – What’s new?
Latest release of VMware vCloud and Datacenter suite has been released – VMware vSphere 5.1 U1. The number of changes and updates is quite phenomenal There are many new features introduced and not only as you would imagine, bug fixes. But we’ll have a look at the changes and those evolutions that are in, a bit […]
ESX Virtualization Has a Chrome App and Extension -:)
ESX Virtualization has an app! Not so long time ago I’ve started to use the mobile version of the WP theme which provides better user experience on iPads, and smartphones, today I tried to create my first Web App for Chrome, and also Chrome extension. There is quite a few guides around the internet on […]
Edit VMX file – quick tips
Sometimes there might be some reasons to edit VMX files. Usually in lab testing, you might be editing VMX files more often than the VMX files you have for production VMs. Right? That does not mean that you would not want to learn about some guidelines or good practices on editing those VMX files. The […]
ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences?
Fairly often new people discovering VMware asking these questions: ESXi free vs paid? What’s the difference? While for many folks, VMware certified people, and others, this question (and especially the answer) is obvious, the new people who just discovered virtualization, might want to know exactly. That’s why this post. At first, you might want to read […]
PowerShell 3.0 Cheat Sheets – learn quickly some tips and tricks
There is 5 PowerShell 3.0 Cheat Sheets available as a free download from Microsoft. If you’re IT sysadmin, you certainly started using PowerShell here or there. If not, you have an occasion to learn some quickly some tips and tricks, shortcuts, and common operations in the new Windows Powershell 3.0. So for example, in the first […]
Veeam 7 Tape Support
Veeam has announced another killer feature for their upcoming product – Veeam Backup & Replication 7. The feature is called Backup to Tape. This was one of the major feature which was missing, compared to traditional backup products for physical environments. As devices, all tape devices (Tape Libraries, Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), or Standalone Drives) […]
VMware Certificate Automation Tool – How to use
VMware Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which has been released few days back (my post: vCenter certificate automation tool 1.0) enables to automate (or rather semi-automate) the management of SSL certificates of different vCenter components. This tool is the only tool that automates the job and which is supported by VMware. Certificates are real pain, and […]
vOpenData – open community virtualization database project
vOpenData is a community driven project where user submit virtual infrastructure configurations, (collected via script) where only anonymous data are collected. Those data then feed up a database which is accessible in a form of dashboard where you can see most common configurations. Ben Thomas and William Lam had a dream which came true very quickly. Actually it was […]
vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Released
New vSphere hardening guide has been released. The news came by from vSphere Security Blog here. The vSphere Hardening guide present itself as an excel spreadsheet, where the different components of vSphere 5.1 are laid on separate worksheet. You have the possibility to consult different ways to restrict (harden) access to different components of vSphere and protect your installation […]
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