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Multiple Points in Time of a VM within VMware vSphere Replication (VR)

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vSphere Replication which is present within a VMware product suite since a long time. It is a built-in feature of VMware ESXi hypervisor. However, it’s only an additional deployment and configuration of vSphere Replication appliances which “sits” between two ESXi hosts which actually enables that replication. Multiple Points in Time of a VM within VMware vSphere […]

VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 Announced

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A new release of VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 (vROPs) has been announced. As usual, we do not have the exact release date, but we have the details concerning what’s new in this release and how that will help VMware admins to manage vSphere environments. The product will provide troubleshooting details for the whole VMware SDDC […]

Hybrid IT With Active-Active Cloud Storage – StarWind Solution

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We have already written about StarWind VTL which allows you to create air-gapped backups to blob storage. But Hyper-V admins using on-premises only instances might be interested in having a supported scenario with an active-active cloud storage in Azure. In fact, the shared storage between on-prem instances and cloud instances, created by StarWind, is used […]

Windows Server 2019 Announced

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A new announce from Microsoft about an upcoming release of Windows Server 2019. The product is in an early stage of development but there has been quite a lot of details published already. No, Microsoft isn’t leaving the server space so Windows Server 2019 will not be free, but prepare to pay more for this […]

VMware ESXi and ESXTOP “P” Key is New in vSphere 6.5 – Did you know?

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By looking a tech marketing PDF for vSphere 6.5 from VMware tech marketing team entitled “What’s New in Performance” I noticed a new option which has been added to ESXTOP command. It’s a “P” key which allows you to monitor Power Management. It shows you a power information for the particular ESXi host. So this post […]

How-To Install Hyper-V Cluster 2-Node Windows Server 2016 With StarWind Virtual SAN

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Not so far back we have pointed a scenario which was destined for VMware administrators willing to use local disks (or Direct Attached Storage – DAS) to install StarWind Virtual SAN. 2-Node scenarios are very popular because of their efficiency and cost. No need for shared storage because we have a StarWind Mirror. Today’s post is […]

How To Run VMs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure via Ravello Service on Separate Cloud Hosts

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As you know Ravello (now part of Oracle) cloud infrastructure is an easy entry point for VMware (and KVM) admins to test and then run VMs in the cloud without any re-configurations. We have demonstrated in our previous post that you can be up and running fairly quickly. We had migrated 2 Jenkins VMs to […]

VMware PowerCLI 10 Released

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VMware PowerCLI has been around for ages and at first, the name was vSphere PowerCLI. But over the years, VMware went and added more and more modules which can also managed other VMware Products. That’s why with the release 10 of PowerCLI the name changes to VMware PowerCLI. VMware PowerCLI 10 Released. PowerCLI is an executable […]

What to do when you have Duplicate MAC address within VMware vSphere Environment?

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Sometimes you have an environment, which shows up with duplicate MAC addresses. You can see the alarms within in your vCenter server web client, and even worse, you won’t be able to power On a virtual machine (VM) which is in MAC address conflict with another VM. In this post, we will look at possible reasons […]