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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere 6.7 New Performance Improvements
VMware vSphere 6.7 has certainly been an exciting release. It seems like however, that all VMware releases and announcements are full of new goodies and plenty of things to nerd out on. Recently, I was able to get my “production”…
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vSAN
Monitoring VMware vSAN with vSAN Observer
VMware vSAN is certainly the market leader in software defined storage solutions. VMware vSAN, especially in the new VMware vSAN 6.7 release is a powerful platform that allows organizations to have a powerful software defined approach to managing and provisioning…
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Hyper-V
Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Windows Server Hyper-V provides a solid platform for organizations looking to virtualize production workloads on a Windows hypervisor platform. It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the hypervisor and is getting more powerful from the standpoint of…
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Backup Software
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a with VMware vSphere 6.7 Support
As is always the case with new versions of VMware vSphere released, the backup vendors are always a bit behind in getting a supported release out the door. This is always a major hindrance among other things to organizations getting…
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vSphere 6.7
Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 in Ravello Cloud Service
One of the really great benefits of the vExpert program is having free access to many different vendor programs, services, software, and other tools and utilities. One of the benefits that is extended is access to the Oracle Ravello Cloud…
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Backup Software
Verify Hyper-V Backups with NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Screenshot Verification
Having good backups of production workloads is the cornerstone of disaster recovery. While you can have fancy mechanisms and hardware in place to make sure virtual machines and data are highly available, this still does not protect you from data…
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Security
Untangle NG Firewall v14.0 Released with New Features
In being in many different production environments and labbing for several years now, you see and get to try various types of networking solutions and products. Around the 2008 era of time, I downloaded and tried the Untangle UTM software…
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Workstation
VMware Workstation Pro Tech Preview 2018 Released with New Features
For those running virtualization on top of their desktop operating system, VMware workstation is certainly a powerful solution to provide solutions to engineers and others looking to run multiple operating systems on top of a desktop. This can be utilized…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server System Insights Predictive Analytics Installation and Features
With the release of Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu), we can see that Microsoft is really taking the new web based management platform and running with it. It is not hard to see (this has been rumored by many)…
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VDI
Praim ThinOX4PC Extending PC Life and Securing VDI Connectivity
Organizations today looking at secure and efficient access to VDI environments both from on-prem as well as from mobile clients may be looking at a mixture of solutions and hardware devices that can solve the needs of VDI connectivity across…