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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is GA

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New version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is GA. The product announcements through Technet’s blog post is here. Interesting features that come out with this release. One of them is a stretch database which allows transactional databases with large amounts of historical data to be migrated to Azure. You’re able to stretch warm and cold transactional […]

VMware vSphere C# Client will be discontinued in the Next Major vSphere Release

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VMware is announcing today that the Windows-based C# client will be discontinued in the Next Major release of VMware vSphere. The only way to continue to manage VMware vSphere 6.next will be by using vSphere Web client, which we all know today has plenty of problems (slow, Flash plugin crashes, Client Integration plugin crashes…). It […]

Which Blog is Your Favorite TOP vBlog 2016?

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As in previous years, Eric Siebert with vSphere-land.com is organizing a TOP vBlog voting competition and my blog, ESX Virtualization blog, is participating. I try to do a bit of everything, but staying as accurate as possible. Readers can vote and determine which virtualization blog they prefer to read through the year. Some readers might […]

ADManager Plus – Free, Standard and Professional editions

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ADManager Plus is an utility which easy-to-use software destined to manage Windows Active Directory. It allows managing and reporting and there is also free version. Note that the tool installs itself as a 30 days trial of paid version which offers a lot of features. After 30 days the tool becomes free-only which has “Standard” features (limited […]

vCenter Server 6.0 Performance Best Practices PDF

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Few weeks back VMware has released a new paper detailing vCenter Server 6.0 Performance Best Practices. Also the PDF talks about the performance improvements of vCenter server 6 over vCenter server 5.5. The authors are Mike Stunes and Ravi Soundararajan from VMware. Differences in type of deployment platform (Windows or Linux) are compared too. What’s New […]

NexGen Storage is NVMe Ready with QoS at the VM level and VVOLs compatible

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NVMe is new standard which is slowly start to replace SAS/SATA by providing fastest/shortest/optimized data path. Associated to a software which does QoS at the VM level and supports VMware VVOLS, it gives you a quite powerful package. In fact all those features are present in the new storage array from NexGen Storage and we’ll […]

Low Cost KVM Based Hyperconverged solution for SMB

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Low cost does not mean low quality but rather better bang for your bucks. I think One of the reasons that SMBs usually don’t go hyper-converged or webscale is the price. Solutions from vendors like Nutanix are usually not cost friendly because pay not only for hardware, but also for the proprietary technology running underneath […]

Z-Drive 6000 – High Performance PCIe Enterprise SSD with NVMe Interface

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Z-Drive 6000 is a new NVMe compliant PCIe enterprise SSD from OCZ Storage Solutions (Now part of Toshiba Group). NVM Express (or NVMe) stands for Non-Volatile Memory. NVMe has larger queue depth than SCSI (64000 over 254 for SAS, or 31 for SATA). NVMe Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI), is a specification for accessing solid-state drives […]