Increase VMware Backup Performance
When thinking about backups, we may not first think about backup performance, however, it is an important aspect of consideration with any data protection solution. Backup performance can impact both…
Month: November 2017
Installing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
Recently, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Pro for Workstation version of Windows 10 to the fall lineup of Windows 10 editions. This is a rather interesting move for Microsoft. It…
Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files…
VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist
When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices. It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when…
Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We…
Picking the right VDI Solution Management Software
Successfully deploying and managing virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI can depend on picking the right VDI Solution management software. Whether it relates to repurposing old PCs as VDI clients or…
NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released
NAKIVO is certainly blazing a trail of very quick release iterations and adding new features at a rapid pace. NAKIVO just announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication 7.3…
Install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server
Microsoft has certainly been headed in a very cool direction in the past couple of years and have definitely embraced the Linux community and interoperability between Microsoft Windows and Linux.…
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID…