With every release of VMware ESXi hypervisor, we need to update our USB stick which we’ll use to clean installation or upgrade of ESXi hypervisor. Today we’ll show Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive. (Well, after long search, only two…). I’m sure that there are many others as it […]
What is ESXi Compatibility Checker?
VMware has a free tool called ESXi Compatibility Checker which can check your hardware if it’s still supported by VMware. ESXi Compatibility Checker is a Free utility (a Fling) which has been released recently. We might see an integration directly to the vCenter server in future releases of vSphere. That would be nice. But for now, […]
VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer – Free Tool
Today we’ll have a look at a new tool, new “fling” as VMware calls it. It’s called VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer. It’s been just released and it allows you to get a hierarchical view of vCenter DRS cluster inventory with entitled CPU and memory resources for each resource pool and VM in the cluster. It installs […]
VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year
This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better […]
Win an all-expenses-paid trip to VMworld US or Europe
Update: This raffle has already ended. You can, however, check out my post on some tips and tricks for VMworld here: Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career or see details about VMUG Advantage which gives you an additional discount of $100 for VMworld pass – VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL […]
Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI – Two methods
After yesterday’s upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we’ll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade. The second method will use […]
How To Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO
Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. […]
Free StarWind VTL, VSAN Storage and more news
Today we’ll look at StarWind VSAN, which has a simple base configuration of just two nodes without the need for voting or quorum facilities. In fact, It reduces cost requiring less hardware. And for two nodes, you don’t even need 10GbE switch. We have also other news from StarWind, and those are related to Free […]
Microsoft Windows Admin Center is GA – Free Download
Microsoft surprisingly released Project Honolulu that we recently wrote about here and here, under a new name – Windows Admin Center. This sounds good, but not only sounds, we like this project so much that we decided to write and promote this product once more time. What is Windows Admin Center and why we like it […]
Setup Faster and more secure DNS Resolution With CloudFlare
If you don’t know CloudFlare you’re missing out. I’m using their service for years for my ESX Virtualization blog. They provide with DNS resolution, caching, security, SSL, analytics. Tons of services (free and paid). Today we’ll talk about how to Setup Faster DNS Resolution With CloudFlare. In fact, they just rolled out a 1.1.1.1 DNS which […]