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Default VM Compatibility Level in VMware vSphere 5.1

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VMware vSphere 5.1 has introduced Virtual Hardware version 9 (vmx-09). With the latest hardware version, VMs can have up to 64 vCPU, 1Bt of RAM or hardware accelerated 3D graphics (VMware View only). Together with VHV (virtualized hardware virtualization) improvements and less reboot requirements (from the vmx-09 and onwards), the overall management of versioning of […]

VMware Tools Repair or Change

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If you experience problems with mouse actions or enhanced graphics, there might be a VMware Tools issue in cause. There is simple fix by repairing VMware Tools installation. You can do a VMware Tools repair from the user interface of many VMware products, not only vSphere. The thing is that you can’t invoke the “repair” […]

Virtual Machine – all you need to know

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I have been asked many times by non techie folks about what is virtual machine. I know that for the readers who follow my blog,  the question might be inappropriate, but for those of you who does not know what is virtual machine and want to know simple answer, read on. Experienced virtualization users won’t […]

WordFence Security Plugin for WordPress

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Today I’ll be talking about Wordfence Security Plugin for Wordpres, which enables you to not only secure your WordPress blog or website, but also get rid of Spyware or virus which infected your DB or core WordPress files. This plugin is a fully featured free enterprise class security plugin that includes a firewall, virus scanning, real-time traffic with geolocation […]

VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager

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VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 released. VMware has released VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager version 1.0 today. Managing several hypervisors through a single pane of glass, that’s something that quite expected today, and it seems that VMware has reacted by publishing new plugin for VMware vSphere 5.1 called VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager Plugin (MHM). This plugin […]

How to run Hyper-V on ESXi

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How-to run nested Hyper-V 2012 Server on latest version of ESXi 5.1. If you want to test the latest Microsoft Hyper-V running as a VM on ESXi 5.1 free version, you might run into a following error: “Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running.” when trying to install the Hyper-V role. Just follow this How […]

Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture

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[Sponsored] – Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture. There is new document available in my Free Virtualization Content section, which informs about converged storage for virtualization architecture. This PDF document sponsored by HP and Intel, show you with some real case examples, that traditional storage hits it’s limits. Usually because the traditional storage arrays […]

Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage

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Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage in VMware vSphere environments. New document which explains all about oversubscribtion. When managing VMware vSphere environments, you can easily oversubscribe memory, CPU or disk resources. But meaning that is easy to do does not mean that it’s the best for your infrastructure. How to size the vCPUs […]

Starwind VMware Backup for VMware vSphere

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Starwind VMware Backup – has been launched. Starwind has released new backup product for VMware vSphere called Starwind Backup for vSphere. Fully compatible with latest vSphere 5.1, the product can do backup and recovery of running VMware vSphere or Hyper-V Virtual Machines. The product has had quite a long beta period, and I already informed you […]