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StarWind VDI and Home Office

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During covid-19 times many employees are working from home on company infrastructure servers (RDS) and applications via VPN. But there is another way of working remotely and I’m sure many of you know. It’s a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Perhaps covid-19 will finally make The Year of VDI happen? StarWind VDI a Home Office offer […]

How to migrate VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Windows to vCSA 7.0

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In this post and video, we’ll discuss a migration of Center Server 6.5 running on Windows server to the latest VMware Center server appliance (VCSA) 7.0 running Photon OS. Yes, I know, most people have already migrated to VCSA, but willing to post it anyway as in some cases with old infrastructures, you’ll need to […]

Setting up Remote Access to your Infrastructure

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With Covid-19 every company (small or large) is facing the same problem. How to setup a remote access to the infrastructure for your co-workers and office users? It’s very important so your company can continue its activity by remote workers connecting to internal resources, file shares, DBs and other resources. But the connection must be […]

VMware NSX-T 3.0 Released

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VMware just released NSX-T 3.0 which is a major upgrade for this SDN product. It is already an 8th iteration and VMware was pushing hard the development, leaving the NSX-V behind, phased out. In this new release, there are many new features and innovations such as NSX Federation, Intrinsic security or networking for modern apps […]

Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

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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 […]

vSphere 7.0 Download Now Available

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It’s been a couple of days since VMware has announced vSphere 7.0, but as usual with VMware, the bits aren’t available at the same time. Usually, this happens a few weeks after. Now we can officially report that VMware vSphere 7.0 download available. If you have missed all the news, you can tune into our […]

VMware vSphere 7.0 Announced – vCenter Server 7 Details

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VMware vSphere 7.0 has been announced and released by VMware. We have details on what’s has been improved and added since vSphere 6.7 U3. This is a major release that VMware will roll out in Q1 and vSphere 7.0 shall be adopted fast as soon as all the backup and DR vendors update their software. […]

VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Profiles

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VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Profiles is a completely new feature in vSphere 7.0 and has nothing to do with ESXi host profiles. vCenter Server 7 Profiles are basically allowing us to import and export vCenter Server configuration via REST APIs (management, network, authentication, and user configuration). The exported configuration (Is a JSON file) can be […]

VMware vSphere 7.0 DRS Improvements – What’s New?

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vSphere 7.0 brings also new improvements in DRS. While since its inception, DRS was always cluster oriented where the goal was to rebalance VMs to equally utilize the ESXi resources, today, with the improved DRS it’s rather about workload centric model. To make sure that the workload running in the VMs are getting the resources […]