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VMware VCSA – IP Address Change

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Today’s post will tackle VMware VCSA – IP Address Change. One day you may need to change IP address of your VCSA. VMware vCenter server is a core component of an infrastructure and changing IP address is something quite rare especially when you plan ahead. But there can be several scenarios why this is necessary sometimes. […]

VMware VCSA – 3 Ways to Activate SSH

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Today’s post we’ll show you different ways to activate SSH in VMware VCSA (vCenter Server Linux Appliance). VMware VCSA – 3 Ways to Activate SSH is today’s topic. You might already know all this. You perhaps rolled VCSA in your production environment already and you have your own experience. Never mind, this post targets VMware […]

FREE vs Paid – StarWind Virtual SAN

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I stumbled into an interesting document while browsing StarWind software website. The document is called Free vs Paid and it explains basically that even the Free, limited edition of StarWind Virtual SAN can be used in production environment. In case, of course, you’re are IT admin with enough knowledge, and you’re able to install, setup […]

Simplivity Omnistack 3.5 – Intelligent Workload Optimizer, Stretched Cluster support, Rest API

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Simplivity just announced Omnistack 3.5 release. For those of you who don’t know Simplivity, you might want to check my other post about their hyper-converged architecture and how they are able to provide a performance guarantee, as well as capacity savings across all the storage (including backups) and restore times. The previous Omnistack release brought […]

Friday Freebie: RVTools 3.8 Released

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Nice new update. RVTools 3.8 Released few days back. It’s a free utility for Virtual infrastructures running VMware vSphere and it has been released few days ago. RVTools 3.8 is a free utility which allows to get deep and rich information about virtual infrastructure, or single ESXi host. The tool is part of the Free […]

VMware VSAN 6.2 Has a New Assistant – Check it out!

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I was rebuilding my VSAN cluster yesterday. Why rebuild you might ask? It’s because I accumulated too much clutter in the lab, with a lot of testing, tearing a part or intentionally destroying. It’s a lab, after all, it’s the main purpose of having a lab so you can do what you can’t in production. The […]

VMware VSAN 6.2 Released as Part of vSphere 6.0 Update 2

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Today VMware has released 4th version of VSAN, with version number 6.2. Yes, VMware VSAN 6.2 released today as part of vSphere 6.0 Update 2. It is a major evolution of the product adding features which have been detailed on our blog in this post – VMware VSAN 6.2 Announced – Nearline dedupe, Erasure Coding, QoS […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 4.1 – Troubleshoot Desktop Imaging Issues

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Another Objective today towards VCP6-Desktop and Mobility exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 4.1 – Troubleshoot Desktop Imaging Issues is today’s post. Post after post we’re getting closer. Learning through PDFs, through a live system in the lab, all this help to create the content which I hope will help folks to pass this VMware VCP6 Desktop and mobility […]

How to create a simple VM in Ravello?

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This is a follow-up post about Ravello Systems, which is a cloud service provider which can run workloads in the cloud (AWS or Google). Recently they joined Oracle. In the first introductory post we have tested in details The Ravello VM import tool, which can upload your whole environment and keep the settings like networking, […]