I recently got a hand on a new book published by PACKT publishing called VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials by Jonathan Frappier. This book is up to date guide for VMware administrators willing to start learning VMware technology from the ground up. Jonathan Frappier is an experienced IT professional who holds an advanced VMware certifications like […]
Unitrends Enterprise Backup 7.4 Product Review
Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) 7.4 for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V is a newly released version of Unitrend’s Enterprise backup solution. The product brings a very innovative set of features that offer additional functionality to a product that is already packed with benefits that enable you to reliably protect enterprise workloads. But before diving into each […]
Snagit as screen capture tool, but does cool videos too
Over the years I’ve tried quite a few screen capture and video screen recording tools, but as I’m using a lot of screen captures in my posts so I finally stayed with Snagit, which is one of the oldest screen capture software out there. I remember about 10 years ago when I first started to use […]
ReliableDR for VMware vSphere – Disaster recovery solution for SMB, Enterprises and Cloud Providers
ReliableDR for VMware vSphere is a product that offers very interesting orchestration, automation and replication capabilities, but most importantly, automation of the whole DR testing and validating process. ReliableDR has been designed especially for VMware vSphere. The product was acquired just recently by PHD Virtual and further enhanced in the 3.1 release which has just come out. Reliable […]
PHD Virtual 6.2 CloudHook – Product Review
PHD Virtual has updated their backup product PHD Virtual backup & Replication, to enable IT administrators leverage cloud storage directly as backup destination. PHD Virtual CloudHook is the latest update. The newest feature allows to setup cloud storage as a backup destination, directly from within the UI. The product is able to backup VMs directly […]
Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0 Product Review
Today I will show you the installation and configuration of Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0 (ZVR) product for VMware vSphere. Zerto as a specialist in the matter has released already second release of their replication product. Update: Check out our recent articles where we’re deploying Zerto Virtual Replication and start some basics configuration and administration tasks: Zerto Virtual […]
LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance by Kemp Technologies
LoadMaster VLM Virtual Appliance – install and configure. KEMP Technologies is a load Balancing specialist offering both virtual and hardware-based solutions. For the virtual appliance, VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, Workstation, Player and Server along with Xen and Hyper-V are all currently supported. The virtual appliance can be downloaded HERE. Today we will focus on the […]
PHD Virtual Backup 6.0
PHD Virtual Backup 6.0 – Backup, Restore, Replication and Instant recovery. PHD Virtual has released their new version of backup software for VMware vSphere environments. PHD Virtual backup 6.0 comes up with several completely new features. Those features that are specific to virtualized environments. In this review I’ll focus more on those new features instead […]
Dell Appassure 5 Backup, Replication & Recovery Software Review
Dell Appassure 5 Review Dell Appassure 5 is a new product that was announced on our website several days ago in this article. Today we will be looking under the hood and do an installation, configuration and brief test in our lab. The Dell Appassure 5 is designed to backup, replicate and recover Windows systems—both […]
Trilead VM Explorer 4 product review
New version of VM Explorer from Trilead – v. 4.0 which supports VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Trilead is now part of Microfocus software. So Trilead VM Explorer is not developped by intependent developpers by rather a Microfocus team. Trilead VM Explorer 4 has been released few days ago and I have been asked to do […]