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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 U2 Released

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There is a new update to very popular Replication software from Zerto. In fact, Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 U2 Released this week, brings some additional enhancements and bug fixes which we will talk about today but stays more or less just a maintenance release. Update: Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 U3 released. As you know, Zerto is […]

Ditch Your HDDs For ACloudA Gateway

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An interesting concept from a company called ACloudA. Their hardware device replaces spinning media in your server by connecting to remote storage in a public or private cloud, via an iSCSI or SMB3 protocol. The server, which can run any OS, sees it as a local disk. Spinning media is unreliable, generates heat, consumes electricity. […]

Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA)

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One of the questions I received recently from a reader was a question concerning how to patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA). If you’re still on Windows based vCenter, on an older version of VMware vsphere (5.5 or 6.0) then you might listen up. As you know, the latest VMware vCenter Server […]

VMware API Explorer Is a Free Built-in Utility in VCSA

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VMware bundles a tool along with vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Update: Also for Windows-based vCenter. If you have followed our blog over time you know that we have published quite a few posts about what’s new within vCSA 6.5, what’s has been added (Backup of vCSA DB and config, vCSA HA, but also the whole […]

Increase Inactivity Timeout on VMware ESXi Host Client

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One of the challenges when working with individual ESXi hosts not managed via vCenter server might be the Inactivity timeout interval. VMware ESXi host client has a default inactivity interval pretty low so after 15 minutes of inactivity you’ll find yourself locked out and you have to reidentify again. There is a simple way of […]

Top 5 Backup Features for VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructures

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In this post, we’ll explore and think of few things when it comes to backup software, their features. What are the main benefits or features you can’t live without, or what are Top 5 Backup Features for VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructures? There is a number of choices of backup software. Backup software for VMware is historical, one […]

VMware Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Explained

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This post is another addition to our Tips category. Today we’ll tackle another VMware vSphere Memory Management topic called VMware Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). VMware ESXi hypervisor is capable of tracking identical memory pages within VMs with the same OS. ESXi assigns a hash value to pages and compares them in details, bit by bit. […]

What is VMware Memory Ballooning?

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This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today’s post. We’ll put it again in our Tips Category. You might already pass your VCP exam and (or) you might know this topic well. We can understand that. This topic […]