This week is VeeamON 2018 conference in Chicago. Veeam’s new strategy has been unveiled and there is also some news about Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4. There is also another news concerning support of vSphere 6.7 which is coming in Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U3a. In a few weeks perhaps… Another half […]
Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI – Two methods
After yesterday’s upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we’ll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade. The second method will use […]
How To Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO
Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. […]
StarWind V2V Converter Update
StarWind just updated their popular free utility – V2V Converter. This took is able to convert different king of VM images from one hypervisor format to another. For example from Microsoft to VMware or the other way around. Other hypervisors such as Citrix XenServer or QEMU are also supported. StarWind V2V Converter allows to for example […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 U2 Released
Few weeks after the announcement and release of vSphere 6.7, VMware has also released vSphere 6.5 U2 however you cannot upgrade from to vSphere 6.7 from 6.5U2. It’s not supported. Part of the release is vCenter Server 6.5 U2 which now supports Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) when deployed with Embedded Platform Service Controller (PSC). Upgrading to […]
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 […]
Containers with Hyper-V Guy – Ask Me Anything (AMA) Webinar
One of our partners, Altaro, asked me to post about an upcoming webinar. Normally I avoid doing it but this time you might actually be interested in it’s with “Hyper-V guy” – Ben Armstrong. I’ve had an occasion to chat with him a little bit during VeeamON US last year, on Microsoft’s stand. The webinar […]
VMware vSphere 6.7 Security Features
VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced today by VMware. In this post, we will focus on VMware vSphere 6.7 Security Features. As you might imagine, VMware has worked hard to bring new security features in order to secure further VMware infrastructures. Also, there will be some information about Virtual Hardware 14 (VMX-14). If you want […]
VMware vSphere 6.7 Announced – vCSA 6.7
VMware vSphere 6.7 announced today by VMware. It’s a major release of vSphere since a long time. The previous vSphere 6.5 release was over a year ago, back in October 2016. In this post, we will focus on VMware vCSA 6.7 – vCenter Server Appliance. VMware vSAN 6.7 announce has been covered in a separate post. As you […]
VMware vSphere 6.7 and Enterprise Apps
VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced today. It is a major VMware vSphere release. Many new features, an evolution of the H5 client (HTML5), which covers about 90% of available functions. In this post, we will talk about interesting new features present in vSphere 6.7 which brings more performance, lower latency, which is useful for enterprise […]