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VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.2 – Create and configure vSphere objects

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This post, VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.2 – Create and configure vSphere objects, will detail the configuration of vSphere objects (clusters, datacenters….). It is another objective which is a requirement to pass the latest VMware VCP Datacenter Exam called by VMware officially a “VCP-DCV 2019 certification”. As you can see there is a year in the title, […]

USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Released as Fling

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There is a new fling app which will interest many home lab users as this application will be able to add an additional Network adapter via USB port to your ESXi host. USB-based network adapter can also be plugged in and unplugged while ESXi is running (Hot-plug). When you have no free PCI slot in a […]

Top 3 Free Backup Software For VMware and Microsoft and their limitations

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This is a post about today’s popular Free Backup software for VMware and Microsoft. All free products are really free, lifetime, but have their limits, so in this post, we’ll give you an overview for three of them. In the past we have had a post about Top 5 backup software for VMware and the post […]

What is VMware VM Customization Specification and How to use it?

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VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template.  Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]

How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

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Creating Image file device in StarWind VSAN has some options that we’ll discuss today. In this post, you’ll learn How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN. Image device can be configured with or without cache. The cache is used to speed up the processing of disk requests using a faster intermediate storage […]

FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates

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FreeNAS has been in development over years. I still remember setting up one of my first iSCSI connections for my ESXi lab with FreeNAS. Yeah, FreeNAS has a long history. This new release has brought in a new UI and some backend updates that we’ll talk about today – FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI […]

Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

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If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing 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. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell

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First, I’d like to talk about PowerShell Core which is a module that can run on different platforms. Yes, It is a cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core, and this is an open source application. (Note that the “traditional”, built-in version of PowerShell is NOT open source and it is based on .NET […]

Free Tool – HammerDB Benchmark Tool New Release

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If you want to benchmark your DB you’ll search for a tool for the job. One of them is HammerDB which is a free and Opensource utility for Windows and Linux. You can use HammerDB to simulate a workload of multiple virtual users against the database for both transactional and analytic scenarios. HammerDB can test […]