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 […]
How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update
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 […]
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