VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template. Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]
How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN
Creating Image file device in StarWind VSAN has some options that we’ll discuss today. In this post, you’ll learn How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN. Image device can be configured with or without cache. The cache is used to speed up the processing of disk requests using a faster intermediate storage […]
How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – The Easy Way [Tip]
I’m sure that everyone knows about this tip anyway, but…. You know, folks working with other hypervisors or the ones which do not manage VMware ESXi and vSphere on daily basis, do not know about it so they need help. In this post, we will learn How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – […]
Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows
If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]
How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell
First, I’d like to talk about PowerShell Core which is a module that can run on different platforms. Yes, It is a cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core, and this is an open source application. (Note that the “traditional”, built-in version of PowerShell is NOT open source and it is based on .NET […]
Windows 10 For IT Administrators – Manage and Solve problems
A fellow blogger Xavier Genestos from Spain is a very active book writer. We met each other during one VMworld conference in Barcelona. He is an IT admin and so he writes books for IT admins. This time he wrote a new book called Windows 10 For IT Administrators, covering Windows 10 in corporate environments. The […]
How To Reset 120 Day RDS Grace Period on 2012 R2 And 2016 Server
When you home lab and you don’t have Microsoft license for RDS, you have two options. Reinstall the server (redeploy the VM) or cheat a bit. Yes, in fact, there is cool hack which allows you to reset the 120 day grace period on Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS, and we’ll show you how. I […]
How To do a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi
The upgrade season is here. VMware has released vSphere 6.7 and soon first backup/monitoring products will be compatible. Time to learn some tricks before Installation or upgrade on VMware ESXi. You know that with VMware ESXi hypervisor you can test an upgrade. I mean run the upgrade without actually upgrading, and see the result. It […]
Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career
I know that only a small part of IT and VMware administrators can really get to VMworld every year, but when you look at the opportunities, VMworld is the event not to miss. Whether you’re living in US or Europe, you can choose the one closer to your place. Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help […]
What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7?
Newly released vSphere 6.7 starts slowly make into the minds of IT admins, but as the whole backup software ecosystem isn’t ready, nobody is really upgrading just yet. It is a good time to do POC or test installations. Today, we’ll talk about What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7. vCenter Embedded Linked Mode is […]
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