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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 R2 Released

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There is a new release of VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 R2. The more and more popular command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell adds several new features and improvements like for example to gather informations about the underlying ESXi hardware (with cmdlets Get-VMHostHardware), new VASA cmdlets or possibility to connect vRealize Operations Manager (via Connect-OMServer). […]

VMware VSAN 6.1 Witness Appliance Download and Further Details

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In the latest version of VMware VSAN 6.1, a new ROBO configuration allows to run 2 nodes clusters at the remote office and have a witness placed in your primary datacenter. The primary datacenter has to have a host which isn’t part of any cluster. That’s a requirement. To lower the costs, a nested ESXi […]

vRealize Log Insight 3.0 Install Config Video

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vRealize Log Insight 3.0 has been released few days back. The product keeps evolving and it’s bigger, faster and stronger in every release. This is already the 5th release! The new Log Insight 3.0 is (according to VMware) as twice as faster and have doubled the number of nodes since previous release ( up to 12 […]

VMware VSAN 6.1 In The Lab

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VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 which contains VMware VSAN 6.1, part of the ESXi hypervisor, as a kernel module. This is already third major update of VMware VSAN which I follow with big interest and which I installed in my lab since its first release in vSphere 5.5. Since then my lab got […]

StarWind Virtual SAN Deployment Methods in VMware vSphere Environment

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As you know, OVF (Open Virtualization Format) helps to deploy applications by means of already configured virtual machine templates. Obviously, there are always at least two ways to solve a problem. So, if you want to deploy a virtual machine manually – be ready to spend some time for the task to be accomplished. To save […]

VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 Released Adding Stretched Cluster Functionality

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New release of VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 is out. vCenter Server 6.0 U1 as well as ESXi 6.0 U1, which brings stretched cluster functionality. While those products keeps version 6.1U1 other products in the suite goes with version 6.1. Other products of the vCloud suite like vSphere Replication 6.1, SRM 6.1 or VDP 6.1. You […]

vROPs Management Pack for Storage Devices Install Guide

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I thought it’s pretty straightforward, to add a PAK file to a VROPS (vRealize Operations Manager),  but as I received an e-mail from one of our readers asking how to do it. So I thought that a blog post will clear it out, especially that a PAK file not only needs to be installed but […]

VMware vSphere 6.5 is Next?

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Update: VMware vSphere 6.5 has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. The product has been released to the public. You shall check our vSphere 6.5 dedicated WordPress page where you’ll find many How-to configure, videos, or step-by-step articles. Free VMworld Sessions on YouTube are available. I updated my VMworld 2015 page yesterday with the list (there is […]

Windows 10 and App Management With Project A2 – Airwatch

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During the Day 2 general session VMware brought an interesting project they are working on together with Microsoft. Project A2 it’s called secretly, and this project (currently in Tech preview) will be able to manage Windows 10 endpoints (workstations) via App Volumes and AirWatch (hence the name Project A2). Those endpoints can be physical or […]