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Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility – Free Tool

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There is a new update on Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility, which is a free tool for VMware vSphere. The tool is free but is not intended to be used in the production system, because it’s only experimental. The same for all the other VMware Flings. Download only when accepting the checkbox…. The latest update has brought […]

Runecast Announcing NSX-V support with Runecast Analyzer 1.8

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Runecast analyzer continues its rapid development with fast update cycles. Today we’ll report on their latest update of Runecast Analyzer 1.8 which brings VMware NSX-V support allowing to detect misconfiguration and problems within your NSX-V environment. One of the previous releases of Runecast brought much-awaited VMware vSAN support and we have reported on it in details […]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ravello Service Is a Good Choice for DevOps

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Enterprise admins usually value their time which is precious. At the end of the day, the working day has only 24 hours, so every min saved counts. Same for hardware savings, when you need to implement a new application in production, you first need a testing environment. If you don’t have testing environment because there is […]

Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling – Create a Speed Limit on a Per-Job Basis

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Today we’ll have a look at Nakivo Backup and Replication, and particularly at one function, it has – Bandwidth Throttling. Nakivo Backup and Replication supports Bandwidth Throttling since it’s version 7.4. This post will talk about Nakivo Bandwidth Throttling and How it works. Bandwidth throttling allows you to limit the speed of your jobs so your […]

Stratoscale Symphony – Software-Only Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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With Stratoscale you do not have to buy a hardware from a particular hardware vendor. Stratoscale can run on any Intel CPU so basically, you can go back to 4-5 years behind and re-use your own hardware to build hyper-converged environment with Stratoscale. One particularity before we move forward, you might not know that Statoscale’s […]

StarWind Free Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

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Today we have a free software announce – StarWind Free Virtual Tape Library (VTL). Besides the free version, they also have Paid Software solution or Appliance (hardware+software). The free version of StarWind VTL has All the features of the commercial version. The “catch” is in the GUI where you can use it only in monitoring […]

How-to Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via vSphere Update Manager (VUM)

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We previously posted about upgrading VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image and many readers liked the simple approach it brings. However, in enterprise scenarios, we have to deal with more than a couple of hosts so it would not be very time effective to do that for dozens or hundreds of hosts. VMware […]

Windows Server 2019 What’s New – Insider Preview Build 17666

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About a week ago, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2019 Insider preview build 17666. We’ll have a look at this build and check what’s new in this release. We have already reported on Windows Server 2019 here and also we have reported on Microsoft has released the new build of the Windows Server vNext Long-Term Servicing […]

How To do a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi

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The upgrade season is here. VMware has released vSphere 6.7 and soon first backup/monitoring products will be compatible. Time to learn some tricks before Installation or upgrade on VMware ESXi. You know that with VMware ESXi hypervisor you can test an upgrade. I mean run the upgrade without actually upgrading, and see the result. It […]