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VMware vCenter 5.1U1a Released fixing SSO Multidomain Authentication bug

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Latest release of VMware vCenter 5.1U1a has been released yesterday. This latest release comes up after several weeks only, because a fix was discovered just after the release of 5.1U1. A bug which affected users which were logging into vCenter Server using the vSphere Client with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) in a multi-domain environment. Those […]

Foglight for Virtualization – New Free Tool from Dell for Multi Hypervisors Environments

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Dell has just released updated free tool for virtual infrastructure called Foglight for Virtualization. It’s a known tool to my readers previously called vOps Server Explorer and which contains already 5 different Free utilities to give you an overview of overall activity of your virtual environment, eventual bottlenecks etc. In addition to vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 3.0, the RHEV 3.1 is […]

Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMware

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New technical PDF from VMware which helps with a design of a DMZ by using software protection that comes with VMware vSphere. By using the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS). The vCNS is a product bundled with VMware vSphere (from Essentials Plus and higher) and vCloud Suite, and it’s destined to secure VMware vSphere environments. vCNS […]

How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP

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When VMware vSphere Data Protection has been launched last year, there is now a way to migrate the backups made with vSphere Data Recovery (VDR). VMware moved forward since then and provides a tool for migrating the VDR restore points into VDP.  The tool is built into the latest version of VDP. The version 5.1.10 of […]

Veeam Backup 7 Announced with WAN Accellerator

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Veeam Backup 7 has been announced today, but the GA release is planned for Q3. The countdown to the new version has been floating around since some time at the Veeam’s teaser page, but today all the features has been unveiled. There is many of them which had been added because clients has asked for […]

Top 5 VM performance problems and how to solve them

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We could discuss Top 5 VM Performance Problems during long hours, but most important problems are usually storage array performance problems and not enough memory in your infrastructure. So when your hosts starts to “fight” for memory and starts to use one of the 4 memory reclamation techniques that VMware uses, then there might be time […]

View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more

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There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here – VMware Horizon Workspace – […]

NTFS Permissions Reporter to quickly check directory permissions on file servers

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Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows […]

VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press

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The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified.  Before pretending for a VCDX, the […]