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Windows Server 2012 installing and configuring (70-410) training

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The new training called Windows Server 2012 Installing and configuring (70-410) Training will allows you to learn through 23 lessons, the installation and configuration. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 brought some good stuff for IT administrators, users and operators. Many of the new features, and roles (hyper-v) has progressed since previous release of Microsoft Server (2008 release). If you’re an […]

Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage

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Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage in VMware vSphere environments. New document which explains all about oversubscribtion. When managing VMware vSphere environments, you can easily oversubscribe memory, CPU or disk resources. But meaning that is easy to do does not mean that it’s the best for your infrastructure. How to size the vCPUs […]

vCloud Automation Center Introduced by VMware

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vCloud Automation Center – leverages vCD to provision applications to virtual datacenters. Multi Platform and Multi-cloud Service provisioning and management. vCloud Automation Center in additon of vCloud Director, brings the automation and policies. VMware has announced new product for vCloud admins that enables to design, implement and orchestrate cloud workflows. The product is base on product called DynamicOps, […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0 Product Review

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Today I will show you the installation and configuration of Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0 (ZVR) product for VMware vSphere. Zerto as a specialist in the matter has released already second release of their replication product. Update: Check out our recent articles where we’re deploying Zerto Virtual Replication and start some basics configuration and administration tasks: Zerto Virtual […]

LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance by Kemp Technologies

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LoadMaster VLM Virtual Appliance – install and configure. KEMP Technologies is a load Balancing specialist offering both virtual and hardware-based solutions. For the virtual appliance, VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, Workstation, Player and Server along with Xen and Hyper-V are all currently supported. The virtual appliance can be downloaded HERE. Today we will focus on the […]

New VMware Certification Roadmap

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There has been new VMware Certification announced during VMworld 2012 San Francisco. Vmware is introducing new cloud certification and rebuilding a new certification roadmap. What’s new? A lot. Even the “old” VCP has become a fancy VCP-DCV (datacenter virtualization). So I’m VCP5-DCV now… -:). But Let’s see what’s changed and how the new VMware Certification Roadmap can […]

Top VMware vSphere 5.1 Features

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vSphere 5.1 features has been unveiled. There are enhancements and new features in every level of the vSphere Suite. There are changes at the product level ( new products, like VDP ), features level ( Virtual hardware v 9, VXLAN, Space Efficient Sparse Disk format – New  ….) there are changes at the licensing level (no “vRAM […]

PHD Virtual Backup 6.0

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PHD Virtual Backup 6.0 – Backup, Restore, Replication and Instant recovery. PHD Virtual has released their new version of backup software for VMware vSphere environments. PHD Virtual backup 6.0 comes up with several completely new features. Those features that are specific to virtualized environments. In this review I’ll focus more on those new features instead […]

Top 5 Free tools for VMware and Hyper-V

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Veeam Software continues to innovate and create great tools for VMware and Microsoft admins. There has been always some great free tools in the past present on Veeam’s website. (Remember FastSCP?). I think it’s time to recap which free tools are available, since recently two of those tools are just standing from the crowd… actually […]