If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]
How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell
First, I’d like to talk about PowerShell Core which is a module that can run on different platforms. Yes, It is a cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core, and this is an open source application. (Note that the “traditional”, built-in version of PowerShell is NOT open source and it is based on .NET […]
VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Update 2d adds tool to convert external PSCs into embedded PSCs
VMware releases another update for vSphere 6.5. This update brings a Command Line tool (CLI) which is able to convert vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) instances with an external Platform Service Controller (PSC) into a VCSA with an embedded PSC connected in Embedded Linked Mode. We’ve talked about Embedded Linked Mode (ELM) in this post. Basically, (vCSA) supports […]
Nakivo Backup And Replication 8.1 Is Released
A couple of weeks ago, during VMworld Barcelona 2018, Nakivo has announced their 8.1 product. Today we can report that Nakivo Backup And Replication 8.1 is released. As previously reported, the product added an additional function called Policy-based data protection allowing you to create backup, replication and copy jobs grace to a policy which automates the […]
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – Manage Firewall Settings
VMware vSphere 6.7 has introduced a firewall management for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The firewall options allow you to create new firewall rules or edit some existing firewall rules. the feature has been introduced in vSphere 6.7 Update 1. We’ll have a look at all those options in this post – VMware vCenter Server […]
StarWind VVOLS Support and details of integration with VMware vSphere
As you might notice, StarWind VSAN now supports VMware VVOLS. If you’re new into VMware VVOLS, you should perhaps check some VMware documentation, or we have an article about storage and VMware VVOLS as well. Virtual volumes are object exported by a compliant storage system. vVOLs correspond one-to-one with a VMs disk and other VM related files. […]
Altaro Community Forums runs on DOJO
Today just an easy post where I’d like to share some news from one of the new backup vendors which are young and dynamic. Just recently, it’s been a nice surprise to find new forums at Altaro. I don’t know where the DOJO name came from but I find it kinda cool. With those icons […]
What is VMware UNMAP? – Dead Space Reclamation
I’ve had a couple of questions concerning UNMAP and dead space reclamation, in VMware vSphere. We know this also as “TRIM” on Windows and other systems. While in the past, the mechanism of space reclamation was able to reclaim dead space from a thinly provisioned array, but also from thin provisioned VMs (or rather their VMDKs), […]
Altaro VM Backup v 8.0 Released – What’s New?
New release from Altaro a few days back. This backup vendor is not so well known so far within VMware virtualization community, but they’re very active and they work hard to catch up. They’ve been in the backup business for a while, but at first, focused on Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Altaro VM Backup v 8.0 released […]
What Is Log-Structured Write Cache?
Log-Structured Write Cache (LWC) is composed of RAM but also small SSD pool. This way, an application with random writes, can have optimal performance, compared to a cache using RAM only. But it is also more secure as logs are written to SSD tier and replicated to other nodes within the cluster. StarWind VSAN uses LWC […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- 73
- …
- 306
- Next Page »