Not so far back we have pointed a scenario which was destined for VMware administrators willing to use local disks (or Direct Attached Storage – DAS) to install StarWind Virtual SAN. 2-Node scenarios are very popular because of their efficiency and cost. No need for shared storage because we have a StarWind Mirror. Today’s post is […]
Netwrix Auditor Community Edition Limitations
There is a free auditing tool (with a paid version) from a company called Netwrix. Today, we’ll have a look at the Netwrix Auditor Community Editions limitations. The full version has many modules and features which are not available in the community edition. Managing IT environments for a larger organization might be challenging. Especially when […]
Altaro VM Backup 7.6 Released
A new release of Altaro VM Backup 7.6 has been just released. After several months of beta, the product is now GA. One of the main new features introduced is the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup for archives and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) allowing to backup every 5 minutes. Altaro Backup and Replication can be used for VMware […]
VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide – Free PDF Download
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working on new VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide and there is a good news today. This guide, which so far was accessible through all those individual blog posts covering each exam topic, is now available as a free PDF. Thanks to Nakivo who stepped in to sponsor this PDF. You […]
How To Run VMs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure via Ravello Service on Separate Cloud Hosts
As you know Ravello (now part of Oracle) cloud infrastructure is an easy entry point for VMware (and KVM) admins to test and then run VMs in the cloud without any re-configurations. We have demonstrated in our previous post that you can be up and running fairly quickly. We had migrated 2 Jenkins VMs to […]
What is Veeam Availability Orchestrator?
Veeam has recently released a new product called Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO). During a Long time in beta, the product has finally reached the GA stage and has been released. In this post, we’ll have a look what is Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) and how it can be useful for backup administrators. Veeam’s VAO is a DR […]
VMware PowerCLI 10 Released
VMware PowerCLI has been around for ages and at first, the name was vSphere PowerCLI. But over the years, VMware went and added more and more modules which can also managed other VMware Products. That’s why with the release 10 of PowerCLI the name changes to VMware PowerCLI. VMware PowerCLI 10 Released. PowerCLI is an executable […]
What to do when you have Duplicate MAC address within VMware vSphere Environment?
Sometimes you have an environment, which shows up with duplicate MAC addresses. You can see the alarms within in your vCenter server web client, and even worse, you won’t be able to power On a virtual machine (VM) which is in MAC address conflict with another VM. In this post, we will look at possible reasons […]
VMware vSphere and HyperConverged 2-Node Scenario from StarWind – Step By Step
An excellent resource PDF providing step-by-step configuration of VMware vSphere StarWind Virtual SAN has been released by our friends at StarWind. In fact, by following those steps, you’ll be able to configure easily your VMware vSphere and HyperConverged 2-Node Scenario from StarWind. It is the simplest scenario as you only need 2 servers with local storage. […]
What is VMware vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer – VOMA
VMware vSphere and ESXi has a very solid storage system. You might be interested in a fact, that there is a tool, similar to Windows chkdsk, which can check and identify incidents on metadata corruption which might affect file systems or underlying logical volumes. During such situations, you might want to run VMware vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer […]
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