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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 – […]

VMware vExpert 2019 – This is vExpert x11

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I can’t believe it has been already 11 years since I have received my first vExpert award from VMware. Time is the only variable you can’t influence unless having a way back machine -:). I’m very honored again being awarded a vExpert by VMware. Thanks to Corey Romero and the team for the award. There […]

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service – Part 2

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today we’ll go and see the steps which need to be done in order to migrate file shares from our old server to a new one. This post will teach you How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service. This is part 2. Please read the Introduction post – How To […]

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service

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Large migrations are not easy and so far, Microsoft did not have an efficient tool to do so. Admins had to use Robocopy at best in order to retain shares, NTFS permissions, and ownership of files and folders. In this post, we will discuss and details How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using […]

How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments

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One of the testing tools for VMware networking is netcat. We have a post which explains the basics of vmkping command here – How To Test Network Connectivity with a vmkping command in VMware environments. Check it out. Today’s post is called How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments and we’ll explore some […]