ADCs have become a standard in load balancing solutions because they provide not only the load balancing services but also full Layer 7 Load Balancing with HTTP and SSL acceleration, Web App Firewalling (WAF) and other security features. We recently reported on Snapt’s Nova Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Snapt develops modern, software-only solutions for application […]
VMware Workstation FREE Update Released – 15.5.5
VMware Workstation Free Update has been released. This is a Workstation 15.5.5 release which brings very awaited functionality by many IT admins. It is a possibility to run nested vSphere labs as well as Hyper-V labs on the same machine. It is the first time that VMWare ESXi nested hypervisor can run alongside with Microsoft […]
Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free
I had this question in the comments on one of the posts on the blog and I thought that many users of ESXi Free version might be interested. In fact, yesterday someone asked on Twitter whether the ESXi 7.0 Free version will be available. I checked and it wasn’t. A 404 page at VMware made […]
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 […]
FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates
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 […]
VMware Workstation 15 and Fusion 11 Major Releases
There is a big release from VMware Workstation and Fusion teams. We could already see what’s coming to Workstation and Fusion During VMworld Las Vegas by watching the free session online – The Future of VMware Workstation and Fusion. (direct MP4 download). But the software has been only available today, after teasing with several tweets […]
VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year
This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better […]
Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.7
This is a lab deployment of VMware vCSA 6.7. As you might notice, a few days ago we had a series of posts on VMware vSphere 6.7 which has just been announced and released the same day (a miracle?). Yeah, we downloaded the bits so it’s a lab time today to put things in works. vSphere […]
Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version
For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software solutions before choosing the one […]
Intel Optane 900P Low Price NVMe might Be a Perfect Fit For a Home Lab
This news came from a fellow blogger Erik Bussink with who I had a conversation on Twitter last week. Erik has a MEGA homelab and he put me in a right direction when it comes to a choice of NVMe SSD for a VSAN cache tier. We’ll talk about Intel Optane 900p which might be a game […]