Have you ever wondered what is Veeam backup proxy? Veeam proxy is one of the main components of Veeam Backup and replication. In small environments when installation is “All-In-one” machine, the Veeam Proxy gets installed on the same box as the rest of the components. In larger environments, the backup proxy role is assigned to […]
What Is VMware Mirage?
VMware Mirage is a product which is not well known among virtualization community, and it’s a shame as the product has more potential than you think. We’ll try to do several posts which will highlight some of the advantages over traditional image backup tools such as Acronis, Veeam Agent for Windows and others. Because it […]
What Is VMware Virtual NVMe Device?
With VMware vSphere 6.5 there was also a new introduction of VMware Virtual NVMe Device. Non Volatile Memory Express stands for NVMe. In this post, we will discuss what is it and what is good for. Check out our VMware vSphere 6.5 detailed page with How-to, news, videos, and tutorials. Virtual NVMe Device is new virtual […]
How VMware HA Works?
VMware HA is a base building blocks of VMware Infrastructure. Within this post, we’ll try to explain with simple words, to everyone, how it works. It is a definition post, so for VMware admins, there won’t be much new for you and you might not be interested, as this post is destined to all NON-VMware […]
What is VMware vSAN Caching Tier?
VMware vSAN as an Hyperconverged infrastructure solution (HCI) has some basic building blocks. One of them is a vSAN Disk group which was detailed in one of our previous posts. As this technology is still very young and many folks seek an information, I thought that it is a good idea to explain this. So […]
What is VMware vSAN Disk Group?
We continue to explore VMware technologies and teach some of the new terminologies that are relatively new for some, but quite old for others. When you think that 3 years ago only, VMware was rolling out vSAN 5.5 and now, they’re just announced the 6th iteration of their popular hyper-converged software solution – VMware vSAN […]
What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?
VMware Hot-Add RAM feature isn’t new, but somehow we haven’t covered it much just yet. So this post will explain What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it. The Hot-Add RAM goes hand in hand with Hot-Add CPU, but we’ll cover that in a separate post. Using hot-add/hot-plug you can add memory resources to […]
What are Open VM Tools and How to use them?
I had this question recently on Open VM Tools (OVT) and I thought that a blog post about What are Open VM Tools would be a good way to reply. Since several years VMware supports Open VM tools as an Open Source initiative to allow VMware to ease the task of creating and maintaining hundreds of […]
What is VMware Snapshot?
Another post today to our “definition” category, which starts to gain some momentum. The idea behind is to give a basic explanation on VMware technologies and how things work. We always thought that writing technical posts is enough to be successful as a blogger, but we were wrong. Our recent non-technical post What is The Difference […]
What is STUN Server?
A while back we wrote post about WebRTC technology. Today, we’ll continue to remind some basics about WebRTC and learn few things about STUN. Web Real-Time Communication (RTC) is an open standard for embedding real-time multimedia communications directly to a web browser, via VP8 video codec, which is free. WebRTC uses a server called Web Conferencing […]