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VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Announced

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VMware is announcing vSphere 6.7 Update 2 after several months of the previous release, vSphere 6.7 U1. The U2 not only fixes bugs but brings some significant improvements and support for Windows Server 2019 with VM hardware version 15. VM Hardware version 15 brings not only scalability improvements (you can configure up to 256 vCPUs) […]

Iperius Backup For VMware vSphere Product Review

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Iperius Backup is a backup and replication product for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Other than that the product can also do image level backup and database backup ( Exchange, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle). It’s a small product which does the essential – protects your workloads which can be restored if anything happens […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 5.2 – Monitor resources of VCSA in a vSphere environment

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First chapter today of the whole VCP-DCV 2019 study guide which has 41 chapters to cover. We cover the chapters in no particular order. The study guide page is here – VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide and it is a “work-in-progress”. Today’s topic is Objective 5.2 – Monitor resources of VCSA in a vSphere environment. Chapter after chapter […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for vSphere implementation

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First chapter today of the whole VCP-DCV 2019 study guide which has 41 chapters to cover. We cover the chapters in no particular order. The study guide page is here – VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide and it is a “work-in-progress”. Today we will be covering Objective 1.1 – Identify the pre-requisites and components for vSphere implementation. […]

StarWind Command Center Announced

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Our readers will like this announce I think. It looks like that something has been cooked at StarWind again. The company keeps on innovating. This time they announced a StarWind Command Center. What is it? A kind of a super-console, a super Windows Admin center. A pre-configured tool (deployed as a virtual appliance) allowing you […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.2 – Identify vCenter high availability (HA) requirements

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Post after post we’re covering VCP-DCV 2019 certification and the exam objectives which are the guidelines from the VMware Exam blueprint. Today’s objective to cover is Objective 1.2 – Identify vCenter high availability (HA) requirements. One of the core VMware vSphere functionality. Today we’ll detail another objective towards VCP-DCV 2019 Certification – Objective 1.2 – Identify […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.10 – Describe a virtual machine (VM) file structure

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Today we’ll detail another objective towards VCP-DCV 2019 Certification – Objective 1.10 – Describe a virtual machine (VM) file structure. Again, read the docs as well as we won’t be able to cover everything  – make sure to read the PDFs. The VMware Exam blueprint has 41 chapters (Objectives). VCP-DCV 2019 certification is the latest […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 7.12 – Setup permissions on datastores, clusters, vCenter, and hosts

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Today we’ll cover another objective towards VCP-DCV 2019 Certification. We have started to work on a new Study Guide that we call VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide. Today’s post is about VCP6.7-DCV Objective 7.12 – Setup permissions on datastores, clusters, vCenter, and hosts. An interesting chapter, important to know how to restrict and protect vCenter assets. We […]