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 […]
5 Tips How to Secure Your Backups
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, […]
Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 released
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! […]
How to Reduce Operational Complexity in a Datacenter Environment
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 […]
SQL Server Performance Tuning Benefits
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 […]
Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free
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 […]
iSER vs iSCSI has much better performance – StarWind
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 […]
Join Kemp Technical Preview Program to test next gen features
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 […]
Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards
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 […]
Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep
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 […]
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