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Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Announced

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Vembu BDR suite 4.0 has been announced. The exact release isn’t known yet, but shall be out sometimes next month – November. Vembu BDR suite 4.0 has some new features which we’ll detail in this post. We’re slowly approaching VMworld Europe 2018 so I think that every backup vendor out there will be announcing lots of […]

What is VMware vCenter Convergence Tool?

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With VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 there is a new tool which is part of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). It’s a Command-line Interface (CLI) utility which allows you to change your existing external deployment to embedded. External Platform Service Controller (PSC) to Embedded. The embedded deployment model also supports Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM), which in previous […]

VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Download Now

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Yes, it’s been finally released. VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Download is now available. It’s been already few weeks since VMware has announced this release. But it’s only today when we have a possibility to download. We have already detailed what’s in and what’s available in this release. If you want you can check our article […]

Free Tool – HammerDB Benchmark Tool New Release

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If you want to benchmark your DB you’ll search for a tool for the job. One of them is HammerDB which is a free and Opensource utility for Windows and Linux. You can use HammerDB to simulate a workload of multiple virtual users against the database for both transactional and analytic scenarios. HammerDB can test […]

VMware PowerCLI 11 Released – Get Your Copy

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VMware has released already version 11 of their powerful scripting environment – PowerCLI 11. PowerCLI cmdlets are created to automate VMware environments administration. This post will detail all about VMware PowerCLI 11. One of the new updates in this release is a new security module which will allow you to automate some of the security features that […]

VembuHIVE FileSystem Details

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Vembu software uses an interesting file system within their backup product and we’ll have a look today at some details. It is an object-based file system which stores the metadata allowing to expose every incremental backup as full. So the restores are faster and can also be used for migrations from and to different hypervisors platforms (Hyper-V to VMware for example […]

What is Azure File Sync?

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With generalization of cloud storage services, many vendors, including Microsoft offers syncing services. In this post, we’ll talk about What is Azure file Sync and what’s the different scenarios for usage. If you’re already using Azure File Sync or you think you know all about this service from Microsoft, you can skip to another post. […]

What is StarWind rPerf FREE Utility?

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There is a new free utility from StarWind software called rPerf. Today we’ll have a look at What is StarWind rPerf Free utility and what are the benefits. rPerf is a free RDMA link benchmarking tool allowing you to effectively measure latency and bandwidth between different systems. The rPerf isn’t a tool with GUI but […]