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VCP6-DTM Objective 1.6 – Install, Configure and Manage vRealize Operations Manager For Horizon

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Another chapter towards the end concerning our VCP6-DTM study guide for VMware Horizon View Suite, but especially towards all the objectives on the VCP6-DTM blueprint. Todays post covers VCP6-DTM Objective 1.6 – Install, Configure and Manage vRealize Operations Manager For Horizon. vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon is available in 3 different installation packages, starting with OVA (pre-packaged […]

8 Tb NAS Hard Drives by Seagate

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Huge capacity coming from Seagate! Seagate launching 8Tb hard drives for NAS market as well as for Small Business or Enthusiasts. You can achieve a huge capacity when using in a NAS device at home or for small company, but this large capacity might bring a drawback too – the RAID rebuild time. Imagine having […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 Released!

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9 has been released. Just before X-mass the RTM version was made available to partners and folks being part of the Vanguard program (including me). The product has an easy installer allowing the upgrade process to be a snap. I have detailed the upgrade process in my post here. Get a […]

OCZ RevoDrive 400 Crystal Mark 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write

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OCZ is showcasting at CES their upcoming Revodrive 400 PCIe NVMe drive. It seems that the Toshiba based 15 nm MLC NAND based SSD has some excellent performance. Hitting 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write in CrystalDiskMark. As being said, the OCZ RevoDrive 400 PCIe NVMe SSD has been benchmarked during CES 2016 show and it has sequential […]

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

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VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View)

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Horizon View and preparation for VCP6-DTM Study guide continue today with Objective 2.2: Configure Horizon (with View). Today’s (long) chapter is divided into several sections, each one of those very important and “un-skippable”. This guide shall help, but it’s only a part of the equation… So far we have covered few chapters (the road is long). […]

How-to Upgrade to Veeam Backup and Replication v9

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9 went RTM and many folks will be upgrading. In this post I’ll walk you through the upgrade process. There are few requirements and I’ve added few advice in this post concerning backing up your environment so you can roll-back in case of problem. You never know. First of you should run at […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer

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VCP6-DTM Study Guide continue with today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.1 – Configure Horizon (with View) Composer. Horizon View composer is an essential piece of the artchitecture allowing to use linked-clones. The big advantage of linked-clones is storage savings that it allows, because linked-clone desktops share a base system-disk image, they use less storage than full virtual […]

Run Nested ESXi in AWS or Google with RavelloSystems

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Ravello Systems is a company allowing to use nested virtualization in the cloud. Instead of investing into a costly homelab, you might be interested into their advanced nested virtualization engine allowing you to run nested ESXi host and VMs on the top, through Amazon AWS or Google. Ravello was born in 2011 from folks working at […]

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