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Software Defined Storage
StarWind New OEM Solutions for Vendors and Integrators
StarWind provides a wealth of products and solutions that offer tremendous value to SMB and enterprise organizations. From StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), StarWind Virtual Tape Library, and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator, StarWind provides many great products that allow organizations to have…
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Backup Software
Data Backup in Virtualized Environments
Organizations today are making use of many different types of infrastructure across the landscape of their business. Over the past decade, infrastructure backing business-critical workloads have shifted to virtualized environments capable of running many workloads on top of the physical…
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VMware Monitoring
PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP
Monitoring is often a not so glorious or desirable thing to do. One of those “have to haves” that, depending on the solution, can be cumbersome to configure and setup where it works properly. PRTG is a monitoring solution that…
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Security
How U.S. Hospitals Can Protect Against Imminent Ransomware Threat
This has been a wild year in terms of imminent disasters and extenuating events that lead to disruptions across the board. If it weren’t enough that organizations have had to face the fallout and effects of a global pandemic, cybercriminals…
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Tanzu
Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu Workload Management
In the previous post, I took a look at how to Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This is a prerequisite step in configuring the Workload Management configuration with vSphere networking. With vSphere 7 Update 1, you can…
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vSAN
Change from vSAN Deduplication and Compression to Compression Only?
VMware vSAN 7U1 provides many options for managing space in the environment. Up until the release of VMware vSAN 7U1, for space efficiency, you only had the option for compression and deduplication. New with vSAN 7U1 there is a new…
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Security
Safe Internet Surfing for Kids
When it comes to setting up a safe way for your kids to access the Internet, it is becoming more difficult. Especially if you have small children, you want to set up many safeguards to be able to protect them…
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Tanzu
Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes
With VMware vSphere 7.0 U1, VMware made a great new announcement around Tanzu Kubernetes. Previously, you had to use VMware Cloud Foundation to really make use of Tanzu Kubernetes along with VMware NSX-T. However, with VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes,…
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ESXi on ARM
Add iSCSI Shared Storage to VMware ESXi-Arm
One of the exciting things in the home lab as of late is the ESXi-ARM fling that I have installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 test box. After installing the ESXi-ARM Fling on the Raspberry Pi 4, of course, I…
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Security
Monitor for ZeroLogon Vulnerability Events in Active Directory
Late in the Summer, Microsoft released patches for one of the most critical vulnerabilities that we have seen in quite some time. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could completely “own” your network and do anything they want to do. The…
