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StarWind Virtual SAN and Stretched Cluster Architecture

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 28, 2018

StarWind Stretched Cluster

Perhaps you did not know, but StarWind Virtual SAN also supports stretched cluster architectures. For an average admin, it might not be an everyday solution as it is used for special use cases with strict networking requirements (latency and bandwidth). To understand what “stretched cluster” is. You have two remote sites within the same cluster […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Runecast Announcing NSX-V support with Runecast Analyzer 1.8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Runecast analyzer continues its rapid development with fast update cycles. Today we’ll report on their latest update of Runecast Analyzer 1.8 which brings VMware NSX-V support allowing to detect misconfiguration and problems within your NSX-V environment. One of the previous releases of Runecast brought much-awaited VMware vSAN support and we have reported on it in details […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer 1.8

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ravello Service Is a Good Choice for DevOps

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 28, 2018

Enterprise admins usually value their time which is precious. At the end of the day, the working day has only 24 hours, so every min saved counts. Same for hardware savings, when you need to implement a new application in production, you first need a testing environment. If you don’t have testing environment because there is […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ravello Service

Stratoscale Symphony – Software-Only Hyperconverged Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 18, 2018

Stratoscale SDDC Architecture

With Stratoscale you do not have to buy a hardware from a particular hardware vendor. Stratoscale can run on any Intel CPU so basically, you can go back to 4-5 years behind and re-use your own hardware to build hyper-converged environment with Stratoscale. One particularity before we move forward, you might not know that Statoscale’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Stratoscale Symphony

How-to Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via vSphere Update Manager (VUM)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2023

vSphere Update Manager

We previously posted about upgrading VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image and many readers liked the simple approach it brings. However, in enterprise scenarios, we have to deal with more than a couple of hosts so it would not be very time effective to do that for dozens or hundreds of hosts. VMware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via vSphere Update Manager

How To do a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2024

Perform a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade

The upgrade season is here. VMware has released vSphere 6.7 and soon first backup/monitoring products will be compatible. Time to learn some tricks before Installation or upgrade on VMware ESXi. You know that with VMware ESXi hypervisor you can test an upgrade. I mean run the upgrade without actually upgrading, and see the result. It […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi

Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2018

Rufus - tool to create a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi

With every release of VMware ESXi hypervisor, we need to update our USB stick which we’ll use to clean installation or upgrade of ESXi hypervisor. Today we’ll show Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive. (Well, after long search, only two…). I’m sure that there are many others as it […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive

StarWind and Highly Available NFS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2018

Compared to traditional NFS architecture configured for high availability, the solution is most often costly as the need for additional dedicated hardware is necessary. But there are other ways to do that and today we’ll show you how StarWind and Highly Available NFS share is configured and what’s the benefits. You’ll see that a configuration […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind and Highly Available NFS

What is ESXi Compatibility Checker?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2018

VMware has a free tool called ESXi Compatibility Checker which can check your hardware if it’s still supported by VMware. ESXi Compatibility Checker is a Free utility (a Fling) which has been released recently. We might see an integration directly to the vCenter server in future releases of vSphere. That would be nice. But for now, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi Compatibility Checker

Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 4, 2018

I know that only a small part of IT and VMware administrators can really get to VMworld every year, but when you look at the opportunities, VMworld is the event not to miss. Whether you’re living in US or Europe, you can choose the one closer to your place. Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: VMworld, Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career

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