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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 […]

What Is VMware Remote Console and its differences with Web-based console

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I had this question the other day about What is VMware Remote Console. I thought a quick blog post would do. Yes, many users do use VMware Workstation which when installed on the same PC, replaces VMware Remote console (VRMC). However, you don’t have to use Workstation and continue to use VRMC if you like […]

PerfOps Data Platform – Introducing FlexBalancer

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PerfOps is a SaaS platform that offers a complete set of tools to optimize and analyze your internet infrastructure. It is a young startup which provides smart data and monitoring services via an innovative and cost-effective product. In this post, we will introduce PerfOps Data Platform and their new FlexBalancer. They have recently announced a […]

What is VMware Horizon Session Recording Tool?

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VMware Horizon session recording tool is a Free VMware Application allowing system admins to record VMware Horizon session. This allows you to verify what contractors, vendors and remote admins are doing on your servers, but also find out what your employees are doing while logged in remotely. With Session Recording, the admin can choose to […]

Windows 10 Direct download links

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A cool hack which basically allows you to download Windows 10 ISO without passing through the Microsoft Media Creation tool (the Microsoft’s way). By using that tool, you can’t download the ISO file directly using any 3rd party download manager software so you can’t pause and resume the download. However, there is a workaround for that […]

vSphere Mobile Client – Free Tool Download

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VMware Labs published a new free utility called vSphere Mobile Client allowing you to manage vSphere installation from a mobile device. For now, the utility can only be used by Android devices, but future releases should, as you imagine, allow iOS installation as well. You’ll be able to monitor, but also interact with your VMs. […]

Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs?

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Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]

Better Windows Shell and Terminal Emulator – Cmder

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Cmder is a terminal emulator, and best shell you’ll ever have on Windows. Or at least what’s the editor of this free software says about their product. In fact, a few weeks back Microsoft has announced that they are working on new command shell with multi tabs and multi-color features, but the product is only […]

Appliance (OS) root password is expired – vSphere 6.7

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I had this message on one of my vCenter server appliances when I was going to run an update. I’m running my vCenter server in a linked mode in the lab. The messages says that “Appliance (OS) root password is expired“. In fact, just today I noticed that VMware just released a new update – […]