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…
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Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of…
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file…
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect…
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…
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what…
Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI
As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single…
Best Rest API Client Download
These days APIs are all the rage when it comes to interacting with devices, infrastructure, software, etc. Most vendors and software are providing APIs that allow you to interact, configure,…
Configure FreeNAS 9.10 NFS VMware ESXi 6 datastore
Many choose to use NFS as opposed to iSCSI in their VMware vSphere environments. NFS has a lot of benefits and use cases particularly when we look at the efficiency…
Create Dedicated Linked Clones with VMware Horizon View 7.1
If we do not want to use or do not have the licenses for using Instant Clones in our VMware Horizon View 7.1 environment, we can opt to use Linked…