A new release for VMware today. In fact, the company has just released the latest update for VMware vSphere 6.7 U2c which is a security update. There are no new features in this release. As you imagine, this is the last patch release before the vSphere 6.7 U3, which is currently in private beta. Today’s […]
Hyperconvergence Performance Testing
StarWind has partnered with Intel, Mellanox, and Supermicro and have done a Hyperconvergence performance testing series with latest hardware from Intel, Mellanox and Supermicro. They used 12 HCI nodes, all-NVMe environment with RAM for compute, Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series for storage, and 2 Mellanox ConnectX-5 NICs for interconnect. StarWind tested their StarWind VSAN […]
VCP and VCAP during VMworld 2019 are 50% OFF
As VMware usually does, it is not different this year. If you’re planning to pass your certs and you plan to attend VMworld, it may be a good idea to do both. VMware offers up to 50% discounts for exams passed during VMworld. I’ve taken the advantage of passing one of my exams too in […]
vSphere 6.5 Update 3 released
While waiting for vSphere 6.7 Update 3 (currently in Beta), VMware released recently the third update for vSphere 6.5. The vSphere 6.5 Update 3 is a maintenance release only which does not bring any new functionality, but rather adds some new drivers and fixes few bugs. Few minor enhancements to point out, for example for […]
Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs?
Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]
Free VMware Performance Measure tool for HCI Systems
I’ve spotted a new Free VMware Performance measure tool for HCI systems called HCIBench. It is distributed as a “Fling” via VMware Labs site. Before downloading you must agree to the Tech Preview agreement, then the tool is available as a virtual appliance (OVF file). You should not use this tool in production, but rather […]
Runecast Analyzer Product Review 2019
Runecast Analyzer is a product which helps VMware admins with their daily job it is a great pleasure to write a new review now in 2019 about this product. Runecast Analyzer has evolved over time and we’ll go into the details about what’s changed since 2017 where we first wrote about the different features and […]
VCP6.7-DCV Objective 7.8 – Manage resources of a vSphere environment
Today we’ll cover the last objective from VMware blueprint. It is listed on VMware page for passing the Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019 – ( PDF Online at VMware 2V0-21.19). Today’s post name is VCP6.7-DCV Objective 7.8 – Manage resources of a vSphere environment. The best for the study would be to read the vSphere Resource Management […]
StarWind VSAN Free – All You Need To Know
StarWind software has a free version of their software and in this post, we’ll have a look what’s important to know and show the comparison between the StarWind VSAN Free and paid offering. StarWind VSAN eliminates any need for a SAN or NAS or other physical shared storage as the local disks and SSDs of […]
Appliance (OS) root password is expired – vSphere 6.7
I had this message on one of my vCenter server appliances when I was going to run an update. I’m running my vCenter server in a linked mode in the lab. The messages says that “Appliance (OS) root password is expired“. In fact, just today I noticed that VMware just released a new update – […]