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Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server is just one of the chapters present in VMware Technical Journal, which went out few days ago. You’ll find the information about how memory overcommit works and which techniques are used, and also some best practices or how to avoid pitfalls. It’s a deep dive chapter. There are also some [...]Read the full post Memory Overcommitment in The ESX ...

The limit of 6Gb/s of the SATA III is just surpassed with the latest technology from Samsung. The code release is XP941 and it’s a PCIe flash card which delivers impressive 1.4GB/second sequential read speed, and most importantly, it’s not a sample. The mass production has already started and it seems that it’s already shipped with the [...]Read the full post PCIe XP941 Samsu...

Microsoft has released a final version of Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET). A mitigation technology is protection against attackers, where a malicious code cannot be executed to infect Windows systems. EMET can act at different levels. At system level, at process level, or at the application level. There were always some kind of protection present in [...]Read the full post En...

I got few questions recently concerning VMware Tools. Usually Installation of VMware tools is easy process. Few clicks in the vSphere client and you install the VMware tools automatically or interactively. There is a third supported way to install VMware tools.  In case you want to do a manual install of VMware tools from within [...]Read the full post VMware Tools Download From Online Reposito...

VMware VDP as a solution, when deployed in firewalled environment, needs some ports to be opened in order to function properly. Here is a list of ports that are used by vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1. Note that there are some ports that are used in the VDP VDP advanced. Those are ports 28001 and [...]Read the full post What’s the Required ports for VMware VDP? at ESX Virtualization.   ...

There is a new 40 min video at Backup Academy website maintained by Veeam, which explains what vCloud Director is and why it’s interesting even for smaller shops to go and look at it as a possibility to build applications that are executed on remote locations – in the cloud and by using vCD. You’ll [...]Read the full post vCloud Director and How it Works on Backup Academy at ES...

This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host [...]Read the full post How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP serve...

A public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed per host, and you’ll need vCenter which is a central point where [...]Read the full post Easy Install, clean Interface…vCente...

Last week new update has been released for VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). As you can doubt, new maintenance release for both VDP products has been released. Those releases are mainly fixing bugs related to both products. If you’re concerned and running your backup solution on VDP, consider to update to the latest release. In [...]Read the full post VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1...

VMturbo announced today the availability of their multi-hypervisor management solution VMturbo Operations Manager 4.0.  Already last month, VMturbo brought changes to their free tool, which is based on the same “engine”. The free utility was renamed to Virtual Health Monitor. Check out my detailed post about that. Today, a major upgrade to VMturbo Operations Manager [...]Read the fu...

VMware WSX 1.1 Beta release is available. For those of you who don’t know what’s WSX is. It’s basically a possibility to access VMs that runs under VMware Workstation, remotely by using just a web browser. This opens possibilities for tablets, and an access from different OS without any plugins or software.  The WSX does [...]Read the full post VMware WSX 1.1 Released – ...

TrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but using the whole TrainSignal’s online library with massive amount of training courses covering networking, virt...

Newly released VMware Horizon Mirage 4.2, a product for managing physical or (and) virtual desktops, when it comes to endpoint management, migration from older systems and data protection. The latest VMware Horizon Mirage adds in addition to existing XP to W7 migration, also Vista to W7 migration possibilities. You might saw the VMware video where [...]Read the full post Horizon Mirage 4.2 Intro...

VDI calculator allows is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash based online tool, can be now executed offline, without internet connection. VDI Calculator, as we can see from the screenshot, has been sponsored by few VDI partners, like Atlantis Ilio, which is a name that [...]Read the full post VDI Calculator Tool as a free offlin...

Microsoft has announced Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 during TechED. The details were spread around with info sites and blogs, but if you want to watch the sessions on your own, you can. A nice little tool allowing to auto-download multiple sessions from Microsoft TechED. Those sessions are available free to download [...]Read the full post Free Tool – Session downloader for T...

TrainSignal has released a new training course for VMware vSphere 5.0/5.1, which can be used as a preparation to pass VCAP5-DCA Certification exam. The VMware vSphere Optimize and Scale (VCAP5-DCA) dives into the advanced topics which is advanced storage management, storage connectivity and multipathing, VLANs and PVLAN management, vDS, Optimizing and tuning vSphere performance or advanced [......

Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. [...]Read the full post How to install VIB on VMware ESXi at ESX Virtu...

VMware vCenter orchestrator wasn’t used much in my lab. But by nature I’m curious guy, I wanted to give it a quick shot, as the automation of the workflows is something that VMware is pushing forward since quite a time already. The importance of orchestrator will get reinforced in future release as well and the [...]Read the full post VMware vCenter Orchestrator Overview Configuratio...

Last week was a bit crazy. The vExperts 2013 were announced, and I got awarded again this year. I know I have already wrote about it. As a current vExpert 2013 I got, as well as all 581 vExperts all over the world, access to TrainSignal’s Online Training Library, during one year. Twitter got crazy about [...]Read the full post 3 Day Free Trial on All TrainSignal Trainings available –...

Configuring IP pools is easy. IP pools were first introduced with vSphere 4, but they’re not necessarily used by everyone. IP pools are necessary if you want create or deploy a vApp. They provide a network identity to vApps. IP pool gives a network config to VMs that run in the vApp. When you configure [...]Read the full post Configuring IP Pools – What are vSphere IP pools for? at ...

The news has come out few days back, that VMware Workstation Technology preview 2013 is available for testing. Anyone can download and test the Tech Preview of VMware Workstation with Virtual Hardware Version 10 (or vmx-10) which will be (or should be) part of the final release. Each major step forward in Virtual Hardware version introduces [...]Read the full post Virtual Hardware 10 Present in...

VMware Horizon View 5.2 updated some PCoIP GPO settings. Those settings enhances the Persona management (via product from RTO Software – acquired by VMware) which has been introduced in View 5.0. You can read my post on How-to configure View Persona management here. You’ll see the step-by-step in the second video, where you’ll see the [...]Read the full post Optimizing PCoIP GP...

First time I saw VMware Blast, it was through one of those VMworld Videos from San Francisco where it was demoed. Since then the technology has matured and evolved. Now, VMware Horizon View 5.2 Blast is present as a supported feature in the latest Horizon View 5.2 product. The Blast is part of what’s called Horizon [...]Read the full post VMware Horizon View 5.2 Blast Client and Demo at ...

Another Free cool videos about Horizon View 5.2 which are available. There are many Horizon View clients available for variety of different OS like Windows, Linux, Android, MAC OS….You can also setup the SSO timeout value through the administrator’s dashboard. VMware View client for MAC is one of the View clients available. The MAC client [...]Read the full post VMware Horizon View 5...

This is hands on lab video about how to install VMware Horizon View 5.2 Connection server. It’s a step-by-step video, which is another video that comes from a Free video serie produced by VMware.  You’ll learn also how-to: Setup an Event Database (New) Enter a Syslog destination (New) from within the View Administrator console Horizon View 5.2 [...]Read the full post VMware Horizo...