Nakivo continues its rapid development with another update – Nakivo 3.2, which adds WAN acceleration support, vCloud Director support and also the possibility to be installed in Linux Suse or Redhat. The Ubuntu installations was supported already in previous releases. Also some enhancements were added when managing the backup repositories, like the possibility to delete […]
Top 4 Free Tools to create ISO files
I wanted to point out some freeware tools which are handy to create and manage ISOs. You know that DVDs are used less and less, and ISOs are used daily during management tasks or when doing deployments. It’s always handy to have the right tools for the right job in your pocket (or USB stick). […]
VMware Horizon View Featured Pack 2 Released
There has been a new release of Featured pack 2 for VMware Horizon View 5.2. Featured pack has been introduced with initial release of VMware view 5.2 and brought VMware Blast components. The second release of this featured pack brings the new features: Flash url redirection – for live webcast video enables to stream webcast video. […]
Reducing the Cost of Delivering Compute Services in vCloud Environments
vCD adds an additional layer of complexity when it comes to managing VMs and vApps belonging to vCD. Those VMs and resources to be cost effective, must be right sized, placed on the right tier of storage to match business needs and SLAs, and at the same time achieve this with least administrative effort. Why […]
Windows 8.x Desktop Tweaks
One of the principal troubles since W8 has been around is the problem with start menu. Microsoft corrected that a bit in Windows 8.1 preview, but the Metro is still in the way and the start menu present in W 8.1 preview isn’t a really what we use to have since ages. I’ll show you […]
vSphere Big Data Extensions Beta 1.0 – Hadoop on VMware
VMware has announced recently a new extension for Big Data called vSphere Big Data Extensions. Currently in public Beta, the product allows the integration between Project Serengeti and vSphere. The in-between layer is the vSphere Big Data Extensions, which is visible in vSphere via a plugin through a vSphere Web client. The vSphere Big Data […]
PernixData FVP in my lab
I’ve been testing PernixData FVP since some time now. FVP dramatically accelerates shared storage used by virtual infrastructures running VMware vSphere as it offloads the writes destined to the SAN by using local SSD storage in each host. FVP creates a pooled flash layer which allows to write to locally attached SSDs before sending those writes […]
WIM to VHD converter
Way back I wrote about some tools used to convert VHD to VMDK or the other way around. There is another interesting tool, especially for those experimenting with Hyper-V and Microsoft based hypervizor. This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 […]
Windows 8 and Windows 7 Desktop Optimization Guide
This PDF guide from VMware has 2 important scripts embedded, which allows disabling unneeded services of W7 or W8 systems. The Windows 8 and Windows 7 Desktop Optimization Guide provides detailed specification of those services, and in order to use in corporate environments, you should check in details each of those service’s function and validate (or […]
Visual ESX Top – New Free tool from VMware Labs
New free utility from VMware Labs called Visual ESX Top. As you probably guessed, the free tool allows better viewing experience than the command line ESX Top. In addition, there is a tab which allows to show some nice graphics. The tool can be downloaded from VMware Labs as technical preview, so you must accept the […]
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