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)
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
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
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 […]
Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive
With every release of VMware ESXi hypervisor, we need to update our USB stick which we’ll use to clean installation or upgrade of ESXi hypervisor. Today we’ll show Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive. (Well, after long search, only two…). I’m sure that there are many others as it […]
StarWind and Highly Available NFS
Compared to traditional NFS architecture configured for high availability, the solution is most often costly as the need for additional dedicated hardware is necessary. But there are other ways to do that and today we’ll show you how StarWind and Highly Available NFS share is configured and what’s the benefits. You’ll see that a configuration […]
What is ESXi Compatibility Checker?
VMware has a free tool called ESXi Compatibility Checker which can check your hardware if it’s still supported by VMware. ESXi Compatibility Checker is a Free utility (a Fling) which has been released recently. We might see an integration directly to the vCenter server in future releases of vSphere. That would be nice. But for now, […]
Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career
I know that only a small part of IT and VMware administrators can really get to VMworld every year, but when you look at the opportunities, VMworld is the event not to miss. Whether you’re living in US or Europe, you can choose the one closer to your place. Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help […]
What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7?
Newly released vSphere 6.7 starts slowly make into the minds of IT admins, but as the whole backup software ecosystem isn’t ready, nobody is really upgrading just yet. It is a good time to do POC or test installations. Today, we’ll talk about What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7. vCenter Embedded Linked Mode is […]
VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer – Free Tool
Today we’ll have a look at a new tool, new “fling” as VMware calls it. It’s called VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer. It’s been just released and it allows you to get a hierarchical view of vCenter DRS cluster inventory with entitled CPU and memory resources for each resource pool and VM in the cluster. It installs […]
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