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How to Configure VMware High Availability (HA) Cluster

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In this article you’ll learn how to configure VMware High Availability (HA) cluster. It’s not in depth article about HA, but gives you enough knowledge and get things running. You could already read my article VMware HA cluster –  how it works with an introductory video from VMware TechPub. VMware HA components changed in vSphere 5 where […]

Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Virtualization Backup Company

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Nakivo is new company, based in Silicon Valley, California. Nakivo has entered the already crowdy VMware vSphere backup eco-system at the end of October 2012. The company came up from stealth mode since few months, but has already achieved VMware Ready status and has it’s product listed at VMware Exchange. Nakivo is also VMware Technology […]

How-to reset root password in VDP – VMware vSphere Data Protection

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In this how-to you’ll see How-to reset root password in VDP (vSphere Data Protection). VDP is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus, so If you’re on this package, you have the possibility to use it and backup your VMs. If you’re on vSphere Essentials, where no backup product is present, I would suggest going with Veeam Backup […]

Under the Hood: Updates and Improvements in Active Directory Tools for Windows Server 2012

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New free E-book called Under the Hood: Updates and Improvements in Active Directory Tools for Windows Server 2012 by Global Knowledge. Get your copy. The Microsoft Windows Server 2012 released recently brought completely new UI with new management console. You might want to see some quick guide and learn some tweaks to quickly manage Server […]

Free video – Configuring Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V 2012

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A free video from new Training from Trainsignal, which shows you what is dynamic memory in Hyper-V 2012, and how to configure this feature. David Davis is an instructor and he just created new training for recently released Microsoft’s Hyper-V 2012. This new training called Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V New Features Training – and will […]

Upgrading vCenter Server? Use the free VMware Tool called vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker

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If you’re planning, or upgrading vCenter server, you might want to know that there is a free tool provided by VMware, which enables you to check the DB before running the installer. The VMware vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker not only detects problems, but also miss-configuration and can avoid performance problems after the upgrade. The tool produces […]

How to find objects in vSphere Web client – the fastest way

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The New vSphere Web client might not be the way that many admins use to do things in vSphere. In fact it’s been very very long time we have been all working through the vSphere Windows client, so the change to the vSphere Web client aren’t obvious. And so like many others I keep doing […]

Second Revolution of Flash storage – NGFF SATA

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Everybody knows SATA interface, right. SATA II (the older one) and the SATA III, the newer one. In the portable computer market there is also mSATA format of SSD drives available. In my laptop that I’m currently using, there is one mSATA with capacity of 128Gb. The mSATA format is small, but in a near […]

How-to install vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) and possibly save on Microsoft’s licensing

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VMware vCenter Server is also available as vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It is a linux appliance – running on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES). It does not provide all the possibilities as if vCenter installed on Microsoft Windows Server system (lacks support for plugins, ex. Update Manager Plugin), but in smaller environments (the vCSA […]