With vSphere 6 and the concentration of the different services which runs on the top, vCenter server can become a single point of failure. Not all services depends on vCenter for example. VMware HA can run itself without vCenter just fine, but if you uses Autodeploy for example or vSphere Web client, inventory service… all […]
How-to use VMware vCenter Server Support Assistant 6.0
VMware vCenter Server Support Assistant 6.0 is Free virtual appliance (and plugin) which aims to help to proactively monitor your environment for alerts and recommended fixes. It allows to receive alerts or monthly status emails. The appliance helps when filling up support requests for VMware (reactive support) as it collects and attaches the diagnostic information […]
How to Install latest ESXi VMware Patch – [Guide]
If you have just installed the latest VMware vSphere 6 for example and want to patch, but you don’t know how? This guide is especially useful if your ESXi host is not connected to the internet. Many folks are waiting for VMware to “polish” the 6.0 release the latest patches which don’t break things, but […]
Application Performance Management for Dummies
There is a free e-Book which I found interesting. It’s a book that treats a subject which is important at small, big or the biggest datacenters. It’s an Application performance. There are Application performance management (APM) software tools which helps to monitor and troubleshoot those mission-critical applications. Application Performance Management for Dummies is a free […]
ScaleIO Free Download starting May 29th – from EMC
Another free Software Defined storage will be available soon. This time it’s EMC’s ScaleIO Software! The news came from (big) Virtual Geek’s blog, and you certainly know the person behind – Chad Sakac. I’m not an EMC person and I’m not familiar with the solution, but I’m most likely interested in a hyper-converged software solution that […]
Free Virtual VNX software to Download – A full-featured version of vVNX
There is free download for users who wants to play with Virtual VNX software – a community edition. In fact you can download an OVF file (after registration) which will deploy a virtual VNX which you can use in the lab as a shared storage. Apparently the release does supports VVOLs so it’s a good chance […]
TCPView and Curports – Tools to track open ports and connections
When you are having doubt about some program installed on your system or want to quickly check which ports are opened on your desktop there might be a time to check which tool fits for this situation. There are tools to track open ports and show detailed listings of your network connections. Tools which can help […]
New Free Community Tool – All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility
There is a new free community tool which has made its apparition yesterday. The news came out via Brian Graf’s tweet pointing the to the blog post of Rawlinson Rivera who introduces the usage and scope. Free = yes, but unsupported by VMware… The All-Flash VSAN configuration utility allows to tag/untag flash devices as capacity […]
Virtual Router for Windows – Free for W8, W7 or W2008 R2
This free software allows you to share your internet connection on your laptop. Nothing really exciting, right? But it can be useful when you are in a hotel where the Wifi connections are limited to single device. Most hotels use free wifi signal with behind a NoCat or other caption portals, so you can use […]
Free Veeam Endpoint Backup Released
Veeam has finally released Free Veeam Endpoint Backup software. It’s free and will always stays free. Veeam Endpoint Backup is destined to protect physical computers/laptops by creating image level backups (note: can also do file level backup, but is slower) where the 1st backup is Full and the next backups are incremental. You can restore the […]
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