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Backup Software
How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup
When thinking about making backups as efficient and timely as possible to decrease backup time windows, our backup solution needs to be as efficient as possible. This would include excluding any files that may be unnecessary to include in backups…
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NSX
Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX
One of the especially tricky things that you have to deal with when thinking about a DR situation where you have a failover to another location is network connectivity. This comes into play especially with legacy applications that may have…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX VXLAN
In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. Â We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks. Â VMware’s NSX allows for the network to be abstracted from the underlying physical network…
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Backup Software
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Released
Nakivo keeps listening to what its customers need in their environments and they continue on a rapid development cycle both of which is driving Nakivo Backup & Replication to new achievements in functionality and features. Recently, the announcement was made…
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vSphere 6.5
Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent
Recently, VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 which has incorporated the beautiful HTML5 interface that we have partially functional with vCenter 6.5. Additonally starting in vRealize Operations Manager 6.1, we have the inclusion of Endpoint agents. With vRealize Operations Manager…
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Powershell
Migrate from Powershell ISE to Visual Studio Code
Most that code in PowerShell are most likely familiar with the PowerShell ISE. The Powershell ISE has been included since PowerShell 2.0 and definitely was/has been the go to tool for editing and writing Powershell code. If you are like…
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VMware
VMware DRS Fling graphical visibility tool
I had seen just a day or so ago via a tweet by @DuncanYB that a new fling was released giving us a graphical interface to see DRS data from vCenter – very cool! Â I wanted to give it a…
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Computers
StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. Â StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…
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Backup Software
PowerShell Compare VM inventory with Veeam Backup Jobs
If you run Veeam Backup & Replication in your environment and you have many VMs in your VMware vSphere inventory and you want to audit to make sure you have corresponding Veeam Backup jobs in place for those VMs, we…
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Computers
Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. Â It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of including Windows Servers, VMware environments, SQL server, etc. Â Recently, they…
