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VMware Workstation FREE Update Released – 15.5.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 31, 2020

VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro

VMware Workstation Free Update has been released. This is a Workstation 15.5.5 release which brings very awaited functionality by many IT admins. It is a possibility to run nested vSphere labs as well as Hyper-V labs on the same machine. It is the first time that VMWare ESXi nested hypervisor can run alongside with Microsoft […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMware Workstation FREE

5 Tips How to Secure Your Backups

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

In this post we’ll try to give you some simple guidelines and tips tips how to secure your backups, your backup infrastructure with your storage repositories, backup servers etc. Those tips can be applied to existing backup infrastructure or on a new deployment of backup software. We’re slightly biased towards Veeam Backup and Replication software, […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, How To, Tips Tagged With: Tips How to Secure Your Backups

Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2020

Microsoft Surface Headphones 2

A New Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 made its apparition recently. While the previous release had a price of about $350, this time Microsoft aligned to the market and has it for $250 which is a very fair price for a headphones which have 20 hours of battery life and 13 levels of active noise cancelation! […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: Microsoft Surface Headphones 2

How to Reduce Operational Complexity in a Datacenter Environment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 13, 2020

A new, very interesting whitepaper from Runecast which focuses on Reducing operational complexity. today’s Datacenter environments aren’t getting any simplicity. In fact, it’s rather the other way around. More and more complex. In this paper, you’ll learn what are the most common problems within a datacenter and what causes them. The Whitepaper was written by […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips

SQL Server Performance Tuning Benefits

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

Tweaking the performance of your SQL server can provide a host of advantages, but unless you know exactly what perks your tinkering will unlock, you might not be that eager to dedicate the time to this process. With that in mind, here are just some of the reasons that the various elements of SQL Server […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: SQL Server Performance

Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2020

I had this question in the comments on one of the posts on the blog and I thought that many users of ESXi Free version might be interested. In fact, yesterday someone asked on Twitter whether the ESXi 7.0 Free version will be available. I checked and it wasn’t. A 404 page at VMware made […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

iSER vs iSCSI has much better performance – StarWind

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 28, 2020

The iSER extension has the lowest latency and lowest CPU utilization thus more performance. It basically extends the iSCSI protocol to include RDMA support. iSER stands for “iSCSI Extensions for RDMA”. It is an extension of the data transfer model of iSCSI, a storage networking standard for TCP/IP. It uses the iSCSI components while taking […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: iSER vs iSCSI

Join Kemp Technical Preview Program to test next gen features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

Kemp Technical Preview Program

Some of our readers might know Kemp technologies for their load balancer virtual balancer product. Kemp also has management, monitoring, and automation products within their suite allowing you to manage load balancers and other active network devices from a single console. Recently they announced a Kemp Technical Preview Program which allows you to test products that […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: Kemp Technical Preview Program

Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 12, 2020

The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer 4.1

Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 4, 2022

StarWind V2V Converter for PV2 and V2V

VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: P2V, StarWind V2V, Starwind V2V Converter Free Tool, V2V

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