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How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

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This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host […]

Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight – New Product

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A public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed per host, and you’ll need vCenter which is a central point where […]

VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1.11 and vSphere Data protection Advanced 5.1.21 Released – update yours

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Last week new update has been released for VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). As you can doubt, new maintenance release for both VDP products has been released. Those releases are mainly fixing bugs related to both products. If you’re concerned and running your backup solution on VDP, consider to update to the latest release. In […]

VMware WSX 1.1 Released – Check It Out

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VMware WSX 1.1 Beta release is available. For those of you who don’t know what’s WSX is. It’s basically a possibility to access VMs that runs under VMware Workstation, remotely by using just a web browser. This opens possibilities for tablets, and an access from different OS without any plugins or software.  The WSX does […]

New training – EMC Storage Essentials. Haven’t tried TrainSignal yet?

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TrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but using the whole TrainSignal’s online library with massive amount of training courses covering networking, virtualization, compute, or office […]

Horizon Mirage 4.2 Introduces New Cool Web Based Console and more…

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Newly released VMware Horizon Mirage 4.2, a product for managing physical or (and) virtual desktops, when it comes to endpoint management, migration from older systems and data protection. The latest VMware Horizon Mirage adds in addition to existing XP to W7 migration, also Vista to W7 migration possibilities. You might saw the VMware video where […]

VDI Calculator Tool as a free offline utility – now available

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VDI calculator allows is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash based online tool, can be now executed offline, without internet connection. VDI Calculator, as we can see from the screenshot, has been sponsored by few VDI partners, like Atlantis Ilio, which is a name that […]

VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) Advanced Training Course to prepare for VCAP5-DCA Exam

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TrainSignal has released a new training course for VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1, which can be used as a preparation to pass VCAP5-DCA Certification exam. The VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) dives into the advanced topics which is advanced storage management, storage connectivity and multipathing, VLANs and PVLAN management, vDS, Optimizing and tuning vSphere performance or advanced […]

How to install VIB on VMware ESXi

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Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. […]