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vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 – what’s new?

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vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 has been released few days ago. vCOPS 5.7 provides performance, capacity and configuration management for VMware vSphere. It’s a standalone product, which is also distributed as bundle with VMware vSphere. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7 is preconfigured as a virtual appliance (VM) and it’s available in three editions: Standard Advanced Enterprise What’s […]

VCAP-CIA – vCloud VCAP exam available

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For those of you who start thinking about VCAP-CIA exam, which is an exam on vCloud Director – at the Datacenter Advanced Professional level. This exam is now available through VMware Education. When passing this exam, you’ll automatically become VCP-Cloud certified. VCAP-CIA stands for VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure administration. There is a requirements […]

Splunk App For Windows Server

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New release of Splunk App for Windows server is available.  This product is designed for Windows servers, where version 2003, 2008 or 2012 servers are currently supported releases, but can be installed also on client machines running Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. This new release introduces new dashboard for distributed environments, with customizable performance […]

How to find inactive computer accounts in Active Directory

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From time to time you might need to clean up the Active Directory from computer accounts which are no longer active. Computers that has been reinstalled, replaced with new ones, old VMs. In many of those case you’ll might just end up with active directory full of computer objects that are obsolete. In fact those […]

Windows Server 2012 Core or GUI – Some Tips

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Windows Server 2012 Core or GUI? It depends of the usage scenarios and possibilities, because not all the roles works in the core version and not everyone like working with the Core only system. Windows Server 2012 when installed as a core (default option), has not only smaller footprint, but also needs less patching. For […]

VMware Horizon Mirage Video – Migrating XP to Win 7

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This is almost step by step video from VMware showing the seamless migration of Windows XP system by using VMware Mirage. VMware Mirage 4 has introduced layered approach to migration and management of data across AD management infrastructures. Is possible to create a layer with different set of applications, and apply this layer to a group of users or […]

vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0

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Update: You might want to follow the How to use VMware Certificate Automation Tool, my recent article where I’m using the tool to replace SSL certificates in my lab. Managing certificates through vCenter components is a pain. VMware reacts (finally) and released a command line tool called vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 which enables you to automate the […]

FVP – Server Storage Pooled Flash by PernixDATA

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Imagine you have the possibility to plugin a single (or multiple) SSDs to each of your host of you cluster running VMware vSphere, and create a very fast redundant storage tier based on flash. In addition, no existing network or storage changes are necessary. Pure fiction? Not really. PernixData is new startup company, which works on […]

vCenter Server Heartbeat Installation Video

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vCenter Server Heartbeat is a product that allows the protection of vCenter server. You’ll find many good tips on designing the solution and there are many links to documentation and online help explained as well. This post shows the vCenter Server Heartbeat Installation Video. The deployment showed in this video is as  virtual-virtual. You’ll find about […]