Recently deploying another ESXi host which does shared storage for the whole lab at the same time pointed out the usual warning messages. Most of you usually know all of them, but for the new people which are trying to learn, this post might be useful. When working in my lab, installing ESXi hosts which runs […]
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi – as a VM
Homelab Nexenta on ESXi. In the article I wrote few days back I was building a NAS box for my lab and was going to use it not only as a pure storage box, but also as an ESXi host. At the same time I was going to explore the ZFS possibilities with L2ARC and ZIL […]
Building NAS Box With SoftNAS
I’ve recently bought some parts to replace my old NAS build to get more power and more IOPS. This NAS box will be used for lab only. I also recovered some parts from the old box, but added some SSD’s. The Mini-NAS will be used also as an ESXi box. While the Mini-ITX boards are […]
vCenter Server Appliance Upgrade Process Video
vCenter Server Appliance is very popular for small deployment and also during home lab testings. This is mostly because of it’s limitations, and also because of dependency on windows based vCenter plugins. The vCSA 5.1 does currently have some limitations, but the future is going to be with vCSA: 5 hosts and 50 virtual machines. […]
Microsoft Sharepoint Explorer – Another Cool Feature comming up in V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cool Feature for Sharepoint admins, which will be present in the upcoming V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. The Sharepoint Explorer brings the possibility to navigate through Sharepoint DB and restore directly documents from there, or […]
vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) videos
vCloud Automation center (vCAC) is a new product that has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. vCAC enables you to automate provisioning and management if IT services across multi-vendor deployment technologies, tools and processes. This product is quite complex but automation provided can reduce complexity and risk, speed of deployments. It’s an automation toolkit. I have reported on details […]
Nakivo Backup & Replication 3.0 released – bringing FLR support
Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.0 has been released today and brought in an indispensable feature for every viable virtualization backup solution out there – a File Level Recovery (FLR). Without this feature you, IT admin, can’t live. Or will have to have different backup solution (usually in guest) that enables you to recover individual files […]
vExpert Applications 2013 are open
John Troyer @jtroyer is the man behind the vExpert program. He is the guy that does that magic…. he is able to bring the passionate people (us) together, as a community. He has made the announcement that vExpert 2013 applications are now available, check it out. vExpert Applications 2013 are open. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2013. […]
VMware vSphere Design Book – 2nd Edition
This newly published book is a second edition of VMware vSphere Design. The Authors Scott Lowe and Forbes Guthrie were joined by Kendrick Coleman for a detailed chapter on vCloud Director which is part of the book. The news has been here for several days and many bloggers has already covered this during this week, […]
VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products?
VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced Version is GA. VDP Advanced is a new product is an enhanced version of VDP and I already reported on that few weeks back during the announcement. The VDPA scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. The product is sold separately with Per Physical CPU […]
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