OK, I know that this is not really a good idea, but I had questions on this and wanted to test. I wanted to test an upgrade Windows Server 2012R2 AD to Server 2016. In place migration. Yes, I know, it’s not really worth it as often when migrating, the system isn’t really “clean” with […]
What is VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)?
VMware DRS is constantly monitoring your vSphere Cluster and making sure that your VMs are getting the resources they’re asking for, the most efficiently. VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is checking actually the performance of your VMs and gives placement decisions to which host within the cluster shall particular VM be migrated. If in automated mode, then […]
How to create a nested ESXi 6.5 Template
The way of installing or creating ESXi hosts as VMs (mean nested virtualization) has changed many times in the past. But as VMware introduces new features and improvements in every release of vSphere, the time has come again to check what’s the best practices and How to create a nested ESXi 6.5 template. It is […]
DISM ++ is Free Utility better than the command line version
DISM ++ is a freeware application which allows managing of WIM images and also your PC. I’d recommend doing a full image backup (with Veeam endpoint for example) before using this software. DISM ++ is Free Utility which is very promising. To manage WIM images and do different Windows optimizations and cleaning. In fact, it is better […]
Stellar Phoenix Virtual Machine Data Recovery
Stellar Phoenix Virtual Machine Data Recovery is a software to recover lost and deleted data from VMware (.vmdk), ORACLE (.vdi), and Microsoft (.vhd) virtual image files. From virtual disks user by desktop virtualization products. Whether you’re using VMware Player, Workstation, VirtualBox or Virtual PC for your desktop virtualization environment and don’t have any image-level backups setup […]
How to Install Ubuntu Bash Shell on Windows 10
Whether you just want to geek around with this or for serious work/developement/learning/testing purposes, it is an interesting option for users of Windows 10. The Add-On feature, which Microsoft calls “Windows Subsystem for Linux” (WSL) and it runs a genuine Ubuntu user-mode image allowing you to run native Bash shell and execute bash scripts or run […]
How to Backup and Restore VMware vCenter Server (VCSA) 6.5 with Veeam
Veeam Backup and replication 9.5 released a few months back wasn’t compatible with vSphere 6.5 so far, but recent Update 1 made the product compatible with vSphere 6.5. With that compatibility, we can now imagine a possibility to use Veeam 9.5 U1 to protect our vCenter server appliance. This solution might be available as an […]
Altaro VM Backup 7 Released – What’s New?
Readers of our blog know that I cover the SMB sector with a particular attention. We like products which are free (almost) or low cost, and which brings a great value for a customer. One of such backup products is Altaro which in its free version backups 2 VMs. Altaro product does work for mixed virtualization […]
How-to Create a Security Banner for ESXi
This tip will allow you to add a security banner to the ESXi direct console. It can be a security message or informative message. Sometimes within an organization, there is a need to have such a message displayed prior to login. This post How-to Create a Security Banner for ESXi, was brought to you by ESX […]
Learning Private Cloud – New Wiki from Stratoscale
This is a guest post by Gilad Maayan. Readers of ESX Virtualization already knows Stratoscale as a lower cost alternative for building a private cloud. Think of it as a full VMware stack with ESXi, VSAN, and vCloud Director….. but running OpenStack and KVM Hypervisor based. Stratoscale Symphony is a hyper-converged solution allowing you to built your […]
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