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What is Azure File Sync?

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With generalization of cloud storage services, many vendors, including Microsoft offers syncing services. In this post, we’ll talk about What is Azure file Sync and what’s the different scenarios for usage. If you’re already using Azure File Sync or you think you know all about this service from Microsoft, you can skip to another post. […]

What is StarWind rPerf FREE Utility?

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There is a new free utility from StarWind software called rPerf. Today we’ll have a look at What is StarWind rPerf Free utility and what are the benefits. rPerf is a free RDMA link benchmarking tool allowing you to effectively measure latency and bandwidth between different systems. The rPerf isn’t a tool with GUI but […]

Shared HA Storage for XenServer 7.x With StarWind

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While VMware and Microsoft are supported StarWind solutions, I wasn’t aware of XenServer. In this post, we’ll look at which configuration is supported. StarWind is able to provide HA shared storage for XenServers connected to the environment. Shared storage which is highly available (HA) means that if any of the nodes goes down, the other […]

StarWind VSAN on 3 ESXi Nodes detailed setup

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In the past we have written many posts about StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) detailing different scenarios and benefits, however privileging mostly 2-nodes setup for their low cost and easy to build. However, StarWind VSAN can easily be expanded to 3 or more nodes (up to 64 actually, which is a current limit of vSphere clusters). Those […]

VMware Tools 10.3.2 Released Fixing PSOD of 10.3.0 and including AppDefense

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A few months back VMware has released VMware tools version 10.3.0, but there was a bug causing PSOD for Windows OS and VMware has informed their customers about this issue. Note that this 10.3.0 release was affecting only vSphere 6.5 customers. Today VMware has released VMware tools 10.3.2 and made the 10.3.0 version deprecated. (The […]

VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced and Now Available For Download

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VMware has announced, during VMworld Las Vegas, a new major update to their flagship virtualization product, VMware vSphere 6.7 U1. This release has some major enhancements so here is our post which details that. One of the first ones which will touch every user is perhaps the fact that the HTML 5 web client is […]

Runecast Analyzer 2.0 Released With New Historical Changes Interactive Chart

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Runecast has just released a major release of their flagship product – Runecast Analyzer 2.0, which brings some interesting new functions and features. One of them is the ability to show all previous scans of all detected and resolved issues on a historical view which allows the admin to isolate events which have happened after configuration […]

What is VMware Skyline?

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VMware Skyline is not new, however, some readers might be interested about what’s it all about. Not many people know that it’s actually a free service from VMware. Let’s have a look in this post called What is VMware Skyline? VMware Skyline is a new and free capability for VMware customers. It automatically collects configuration […]

VMware vSphere Persistent Memory Performance – Must Have PDF Download

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VMware vSphere Persistent memory (PMEM) has been announced with vSphere 6.7, but the feature only works with the latest hardware from selected vendors. With supported hardware modules, customers can use this very fast storage, as a new storage tier for enterprise applications. vSphere Persistent Memory Performance is the topic of today’s post. vSphere persistent memory works […]