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Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 12, 2020

The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer 4.1

VMware Per-CPU Pricing going up to x2 for CPUs with over 32 cores

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 5, 2020

This is information which came out as a bomb yesterday and we have already tweeted that. VMwarePer-CPU pricing is going up. Imagine that you want to go for a new infrastructure VMware and that you like the new AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPUs from AMD which has 64 cores. Well, you just find out that you’d […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization

vRealize Network Insight 5.1 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 15, 2020

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, […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vRealize Network Insight 5.1

Zerto 7.5 With Elastic Journal and long term retention – Restore a VM 20 Years old?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2020

Zerto Barcelona 2019

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud Tagged With: Zerto Barcelona 2019

StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 9, 2019

StarWind Virtual SAN

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind VSAN

Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 26, 2019

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Load Balancer

Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud Tagged With: Veeam 10 Immutability Feature

StarWind Virtual SAN Best Practices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 12, 2019

StarWind Virtual SAN

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind Virtual SAN Best Practices

We saw VMware ESXi 7.0 on ARM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 6, 2021

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. Update: […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured Tagged With: ESXi 7, ESXi 7 ARM, ESXi on ARM, VMware ESXi 7.0

Free E-Book and $20 Vouchers – Office 365/Microsoft 365: The Essential Companion Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 21, 2020

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud Tagged With: Office 365

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