Before we get started, let’s remind you that this post, VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 2.2 – Identify use cases for VMware vSphere+, is part of our VCP8-DCV Study Guide Page. (work-in-progress) The VMware Exam page is here on VMware’s website. The official code for this exam is 2V0-21. 23. The topic is part of the Official VMware blueprint. (direct […]
VMware Free Utility – Set up alerts from multiple vCenter Servers directly to your desktop
A new free tool from VMware Fling site is out. I have blogged in detail about this tool at 4sysops.com website here. Check it out. This tool is a standalone desktop application that you install on your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop/laptop. Then by configuring the connections (datas are encrypted after on the local disk) […]
Manipulating OVFs? Which tools to use
Which tools are available to create and use OVFs. The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is well known format for transporting virtual machines between different products. You can export vApps or VMs as an OVF file and use them in VMware Workstation or Player in a test or development environments. OVF is supportet through different VMware products, like vSphere, […]
vKernel’s vOps 4.5 brings more robust automatization and more
vKernel continues to innovate with vOps 4.5. Released yesterday, with major release upgrade, vKernel’s vOps 4.5 brings some major enhancements and new features to it’s flagship product – vOps 4.5. Based on the same analytics engine – Capacity Analytics Engine™ – as the free product – vScope Explorer – see my post on it from VMworld […]
Veeam’s Backup Accademy Website opened – an excellent Free ressource
Veeam has opened new resource website which is an incredible training ressource. It’s a free website, which has been sponsored by Veeam and where you can watch training videos on backup technologies for different hyper-visors. The website has some great video content already provided by some top Experts in the Industry, not only specializing in […]
150 new features or enhancements in vSphere 4.1
VMware vSphere 4.1 released this morning. The huge amount of new features in vSphere 4.1 are phenomenal. We thought that the 4.1 update of VMware vSphere we’ll talk about Storage I/O, memory compression and few others…. but we would not imagine a such a long list of new features and improvements. The 4.1 update its […]
What to do when you can’t delete snapshot
When you can’t delete snapshot. What to do? You know that one of the great features of VMware ESX is a possibility to take snapshot of your system on a regular basics. When something goes wrong, you just revert to the snapshot and here you go. But when the snapshot get’s stuck? You want to […]