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VMware vROPS 6.7 Released

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VMware has just released a VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 which has been announced last week. It seems that everything was ready for that release, so you can now get the bits. As reported previously, the product has a major redesign. VMware vROPS provide troubleshooting details for the whole VMware SDDC stack. (vSphere, vSAN, vRA, host, […]

VMware Tools Offline VIB for ESXi Host – Bundle Download and Install

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It’s been a few years now since VMware tools “split” and so it’s individual updates are available as a separate download. What we just found out is the fact that there is also a VIB package which you can download. As you know, VIB stands for VMware Installation Bundle. We have detailed How to install VIB […]

Project Honolulu and Windows Server 2019

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We were playing with Windows Server 2019 (Tech Preview) in the lab, as well as with Project Honolulu. The Windows Server 2019 was installed on vSphere 6.5 in the lab, as a new VM with default settings of Windows Server 2016. As you can imagine, everything worked as it should. After installing VMware tools, I […]

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 […]