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Backup Software
Offsite Backup with Vembu BDR Suite CloudDR
Vembu BDR Suite provides a great all encompassing feature set for organizations looking to provide site resiliency as well as multiple copies of backup data stored in multiple locations. These days, most organizations if not already utilziing the public cloud…
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NSX
What is VMware AppDefense?
One of the exciting announcements that was made out of VMWorld was the release of AppDefense. This security product helps to bolster what VMware NSX can do from a security standpoint and augment those features and extend the capabilities and…
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home lab
Backup 3-2-1 Strategies for the Home Lab
Many of us are running home labs and have “critical” data or VMs that we simply do not want to lose. Would we want to lose any of this data or virtual infrastructure? Each person/home lab is different and may…
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vSphere 6.5
Managing Datastore Files in VMware vSphere 6.5
One of the basic, daily administration tasks for any VMware administrator is managing files in the vSphere environment. With the move to vSphere 6.5, how are file management tasks affected versus previous versions of vSphere? What about during the cohabitation…
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vSphere 6.5
Reinstall VMware Tools in VMware VCSA Appliance
Recently, in working with an upgrade from VCSA 6 appliance to VCSA 6.5, I ran into a particular issue having to do with the VCSA 6 appliance not running VMware tools. In the environment, VMware tools had been inadvertently uninstalled…
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Hyper-V
Differences between Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct
“Software Defined” is all the rage these days with vendors looking at ways to abstract core functionality and features away from the underlying hardware. Software defined storage is an especially hot topic. Microsoft has a couple of technologies out there…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware VCSA 6.5 Photon OS configuration and commands
As we covered in what is Photon OS, it is a cloud operating system built from the ground up for cloud and containers. VMware is using Photon OS in most of the new appliance releases or updates. The new VCSA…
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VDI
Automate configuration of Thin and Zero Client with Praim ThinMan
When thinking about automating the provisioning of thin clients as well as Windows PCs, a large part of the automation on the front end that we would want to be able to accomplish is automating configuration. We have already looked…
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VMware
VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements
With VMWorld 2017 underway and already a couple of days gone by, let’s take a look at VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements that have already taken place as well. Additionally, I will keep this post updated with new announcements as they…
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vSphere 6.5
Managing Disabling Deleting VMware vCenter Server Plugins
In troubleshooting various problems with the vCenter Server appliance or perhaps in upgrading your VCSA 6.0 appliance to 6.5, you may run into issues with plugins installed in vCenter Server. Quite a few of the issues that many have run…
