We wrote about Chocolatey package manager in the past and if you’re not a regular reader of this blog, you should definitely check it out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Today […]
Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep
VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]
FreeNAS 11.3 New Release
Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]
How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it
VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. […]
VMware OS Optimization tool now supports Windows Server 2019
One of the very popular “Flings”, a free utility from VMware Labs got an update recently. One of the interesting updates is support of Windows Server 2019 and also two new templates for Windows 10. The VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) is a powerful utility that we have already reviewed on this blog several times, […]
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 […]
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 […]
VMware ESXi Free and StarWind – Two node setup for remote offices
When you have lots of remote offices and you are budget limited, you might be interested in an architecture where you’ll have your VMs running on VMware Free hypervisor (or with vSphere Essentials Kit for about $600) and shared storage provided by StarWind VSAN installed on 2-nodes. This is the most cost-effective solution where you […]
Interesting Upcoming vSphere Feature similar to GPO’s capability – vSphere Perspectives
VMware keeps improving vSphere in every release, there is however a way you can test new capabilities through VMware Flings. There is HTML 5 Web clien update which has an interesting feature added called vSphere “Perspectives”. This capability/feature has been released as a part of vSphere HTML 5 web client VMware FLING update and as […]
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