As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]
How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy
The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]
TeraCopy 3.0 release – A popular file transfer utility
TeraCopy 3.0 – A popular file transfer utility has been released a few days ago bringing better UI, faster copy speed, and easier usage. The product brought some significant improvements from the past releases and introduces also new file replace dialog, copy with elevated Windows Service and VSS or support for an unlimited number of files. […]
DISM ++ is Free Utility better than the command line version
DISM ++ is a freeware application which allows managing of WIM images and also your PC. I’d recommend doing a full image backup (with Veeam endpoint for example) before using this software. DISM ++ is Free Utility which is very promising. To manage WIM images and do different Windows optimizations and cleaning. In fact, it is better […]
Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Timeout
There are several ways to enable ESXi shell, so we’ll look into it, and also we will also look at an option, to set a timeout setting for the ESXi Shell. This will allow you to set a value (in minutes) which will elapse before you must log in after the ESXi Shell is enabled. […]
How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down – With Nakivo
Playing with the lab sometimes break things. If you break an ordinary VM, it does not really matter. But what if the VM is a vCenter VM? Recently that has happened to my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Impossible to connect and dig into the services, to start them up. No VMware snapshot either. But […]
VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test – Video
Recently we have tested new features from VMware vSphere 6.5. We have deployed VCSA 6.5 and via Simple or Advanced configuration we have set up a VCSA HA 3-node cluster. The vCSA HA can protect your vCenter server in case of data store failure or host failure. This post will detail the VMware vCSA 6.5 HA […]
VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup – Advanced Configuration
Last week we have done a little lab test where we have tested the new vCenter Server 6.5 (for VCSA only) called vCenter HA. If you don’t know anything about how it works or what it can do I invite you to check our detailed article on that here – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Native vCenter […]
How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via Offline Bundle
During today’s lab post we will do an upgrade from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via CLI and we will be using a zip file called VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle. At the end of the post, you’ll see a video of the process. If you follow this blog on regular basis you can […]
How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation
A few days back we learned about How to upgrade our ESXi 6.0 host via ISO or CD-ROM. Not every server today has a CD-ROM drive, so as an alternative, USB flash drive is usually used. But you need to prepare this USB media and create an installation USB stick first. Today we’ll show you […]
