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Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

FreeNAS 11.3 New Release

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Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and  ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]

Free PowerCLI E-book to download and a possibility to Win $20 Amazon voucher

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If you currently use PowerCLI to automate basic tasks with pre-defined scripts, you’ll already know how powerful automation can be. However, taking the next step and customizing scripts to carry out tasks specifically designed for your needs opens a whole new world of opportunities. This new eBook from Altaro takes you there. Written by VMware […]

How to use StarWind VSAN As a Resilient and Highly Available Shared Storage

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Many of today’s infrastructures admins do not like to change their habits and continue to use traditional shared storage only. It they hear Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), they’re scared. They’re not cutting edge on tech, just using “oldfashioned” shared storage where you hook your ESXi hosts via storage switches. This is particularly true in SMB and very […]