VMware has released a vRealize Network Insight 5.1. vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) supports a large number of vendors which are switch/router vendors. We name a few like Dell, Cisco (ACI, Nexus), Arista, Juniper. Also firewalls such as Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Fortinet. vRNI has also Azure support which gives you visibility on application dependency mappings, […]
StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization
I don’t think that I have to re-introduce StarWind company to our readers. Their software solutions were simple but effective for many years. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are also provided by StarWind and since this year they are also present in the Magic Quadrant by Gartner. Gartner’s study says that “StarWind VSAN offers a high […]
Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere
Today’s free download is provided by Kemp Technologies. They offer a free load balancer for different virtualization platforms – VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VirtualBox or Citrix XenServer. The free product has some limitations of course, but still, it’s free. And if you like it you can upgrade as you’ll be all ready familiar […]
Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature
Ransomware is a real problem for everyone. Within the deep inside of you heard you always hope that your organization won’t get hit, but how do you minimize the risk? In this post, we’ll see that you will soon be able to Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature and that it is dead easy […]
Zerto 7.5 With Elastic Journal and long term retention – Restore a VM 20 Years old?
Zerto was one of the vendors I wanted to visit during my VMworld Barcelona. As you know, Zerto can protect your VMs by replicating them to the remote site with a very low RTO and RPO. It’s because their software is able to “sit” in between a VM which needs to be protected and the […]
StarWind Virtual SAN Best Practices
Every software solution has its own best practices. Admins must follow those best practices for VMware, Microsoft or other vendors and all software solutions including software-defined storage solutions, do have their best practices. Today we’ll be talking about StarWind Virtual SAN Best Practices. As you know, StarWind Virtual SAN has been for a while and […]
We saw VMware ESXi 7.0 on ARM
During VMworld Barcelona 2019 I went to see ARM booth, which is not a VMware booth, but rather a separate one running by ESXi on ARM developers. The folks were showing some interesting stuff, for example, an HP laptop running ESXi 6.9 or a running version of VMware ESXi 7 on Raspberry PI 4. It […]
Free E-Book and $20 Vouchers – Office 365/Microsoft 365: The Essential Companion Guide
Microsoft Office is so commonplace in the modern workplace it’s hard to imagine a business without it. However, with the advent of Office 365 and Microsoft 365, there’s a lot more than Word document or Excel spreadsheets that you should be taking advantage of. In order to get the most out of your investment, Altaro […]
Iperius Backup 6.3.0 Released Adding File Level Restore Capability
It’s been a while since we reviewed this promising backup and replication product from Iperius software. Just a few days ago, news came by that Iperius Backup 6.3.0 has added a File Level Restore capability. It is a necessary and N°1 feature for every admin out there. You can read our full review of Iperius […]
Zerto 7.5 Released – What’s New?
Zerto 7.5 Released yesterday and available for download. Zerto has been on fire this year with two major releases (7.0 and now 7.5). The Zerto Resilience platform has evolved over time, but it’s only this year when the 7.0 release came out with Elastic journal allowing you to restore your VMs from older date. In […]