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Web Commander 3.0 for VMware

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VMware free fling utility called Web Commander 3.0 has been recently updated. The default UI presents objects, which are PowerCLI/PowerShell objects for interacting with AD, Horizon View Broker, Guest VMs and (or) vSphere actions like add/remove/start/stop for VMs. Also you can take snapshots or rename VMs. Web Commander is a web based interface to provide […]

VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V5.5] – Free 60 min training

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New Free training from VMware Education has been announced – VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V5.5]. This training is about VSAN and has four modules where you’ll learn about use cases, interoperability, DR, management but also you’ll have the possibility to see enabling VSAN clusters, create disk groups, storage policies and how to expand VSAN clusters. […]

VMware Converter Standalone 5.5.1 With VSAN support and more

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The latest release of VMware Converter Standalone 5.5.1 is available since few days. It’s a build 1682692 and you can download it from here. It’s a maintenance release which fixed several bugs, but with a bonus added a support for VMware VSAN. You can check out the release notes from this page. VMware Converter standalone adds those new […]

Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software Ammyy Admin and others

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Here is a quick recap (not even close to be exhaustive) of different applications which offers access to remote desktops. I know there is many other apps, but let’s quickly have a look at some of those which are the most interesting. One of them is Ammyy Admin, which is Zero-Config Remote Desktop Software that […]

VMware Labs updated VMware tools for ESXi

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There was an update of VMware tools for nested ESXi on VMware Labs website recently. The new update allows to report IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses for nested ESXi guests. If you don’t use VMware tools for your nested lab, you should as it allows to interract with the ESXi OS the same way […]

Double Commander – Free File manager Windows, Linux, MacOS

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I stumbled through this file manager called Double Commander. It’s not the first one I was testing in the past. If you remember, last year I have actually published an article which showed another free file manager based on tabbed approach. Today I’ll show you another free utility, a file manager which might be useful […]

Zentyal 3.4 Community Edition Released

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Zentyal Server is one of those Linux distributions which provides very well built-in front end management, a Webmin like GUI. They have just released Zentyal 3.4 Community Edition. I have blogged already about Zentyal in my post here where I tested also installation on the top of usual Ubuntu server distribution, which was also possible. But […]

PowerCLI 5.5 R2 Released – Download your free copy

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Alan Renouf has announced through the PowerCLI blog the news few days back when the main news about VSAN and vSphere 5.5 U1 release. There is a new release of PowerCLI 5.5 R2 (Build 1649237 is VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2) which brings many new support for different products and vSphere. The latest PowerCLI 5.5 […]

Official VMware VSAN Design and Sizing Guide (PDF)

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VMware VSAN Design and Sizing Guide is an up-to-date document that helps to understand VSAN requirements for SSDs, HDDs, but also for memory and CPU per host, as VSAN introduces about 10% of CPU overhead.  The paper was updated at the same time as the yesterday announce for the VSAN Launch and new configuration maximums. The […]