Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Announced New Features
Yet again exciting news from Nakivo today as they made an announcement concerning the Beta release of Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2. It looks to include many new and highly…
New Surface Pro 2017 Review
So for a while now, I have been looking at replacing an aging road warrior laptop that has been showing its age recently. I have been flirting with the idea…
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at…
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs…
Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to…
Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do.…
Veeam Windows Agent not showing backup repository
Just a quick post on a little issue I saw with configuring a new Veeam Windows Agent 2.0 workstation pointing to a Veeam Repository. When configuring the backup, the repository…
VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering
As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This…
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN. However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO. StorageIO is free…
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. I wanted to help give some visibility to…