The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]
Chocolatey GUI as a front-end deployment and management option
We wrote about Chocolatey package manager in the past and if you’re not a regular reader of this blog, you should definitely check it out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Today […]
VMware Per-CPU Pricing going up to x2 for CPUs with over 32 cores
This is information which came out as a bomb yesterday and we have already tweeted that. VMwarePer-CPU pricing is going up. Imagine that you want to go for a new infrastructure VMware and that you like the new AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPUs from AMD which has 64 cores. Well, you just find out that you’d […]
Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LSWBC) by StarWind – How it Works?
StarWind software is constantly working on improving its flagship product StarWind Virtual SAN. During the development cycle, they have experimented with LSFS, but finally preferred LSWBC which optimizes small random writes and is able to use RAM and an SSD pool to boost performance, and additionally eliminate completely the need for full-resync after a node […]
Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep
VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]
FreeNAS 11.3 New Release
Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]
Iperius Backup 6.5.1: Incremental Replication between ESXi Free Hosts
Iperius Backup for VMware ESXi and vSphere, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V, is a product that isn’t much known within the virtualization community. We have written about this solution a while back and we have also done a full review here. The product can backup and replicate Virtual machines (VMs) for VMware ESXi (including ESXi […]
How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it
VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. […]
Nakivo Backup And Replication 9.1 Released – Download Your Trial
Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.1 is GA. You can download a free trial here. The product has yet again evolved and new features have been added. We have recently written about the 9.1 Beta here. As any backup product out there, Nakivo keeps adding new functions that are useful for data center administrators. One of […]
How to use vSphere Update Manager to update ESXi with the latest VMware Tools?
When you install ESXi host and keep the settings by default, VMware tools are “sitting” on a local ESXi. The ISO files for Windows and Linux containing the latest drivers are in “vmtools” and “floppies” directories on ESXi hosts. This is ok. But if you want to have always the latest version of VMware Tools […]
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