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What is StarWind rPerf FREE Utility?

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There is a new free utility from StarWind software called rPerf. Today we’ll have a look at What is StarWind rPerf Free utility and what are the benefits. rPerf is a free RDMA link benchmarking tool allowing you to effectively measure latency and bandwidth between different systems. The rPerf isn’t a tool with GUI but […]

Windows 10 For IT Administrators – Manage and Solve problems

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A fellow blogger Xavier Genestos from Spain is a very active book writer. We met each other during one VMworld conference in Barcelona. He is an IT admin and so he writes books for IT admins. This time he wrote a new book called Windows 10 For IT Administrators, covering Windows 10 in corporate environments. The […]

Windows Server 2019 What’s new?

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As you know, Windows Server 2019 shall be out this year. While nobody has really the exact date, you can get some of the latest info from those guys who will discuss some of the most important features that will be in that release. We have a post about Windows Server 2019 (based on preview […]

Shared HA Storage for XenServer 7.x With StarWind

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While VMware and Microsoft are supported StarWind solutions, I wasn’t aware of XenServer. In this post, we’ll look at which configuration is supported. StarWind is able to provide HA shared storage for XenServers connected to the environment. Shared storage which is highly available (HA) means that if any of the nodes goes down, the other […]

Nakivo Synology Details, Benefits and Advantages

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Nakivo Backup and Replication is available for certain NAS. There are some benefits in doing so and in this post, we’ll discuss that and have a look at the details. As you know, Nakivo is no longer the new software vendor but rather the one who’s product has very flexible deployment options. You can deploy […]

VMware Workstation 15 and Fusion 11 Major Releases

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There is a big release from VMware Workstation and Fusion teams. We could already see what’s coming to Workstation and Fusion During VMworld Las Vegas by watching the free session online – The Future of VMware Workstation and Fusion. (direct MP4 download). But the software has been only available today, after teasing with several tweets […]

StarWind VSAN on 3 ESXi Nodes detailed setup

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In the past we have written many posts about StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) detailing different scenarios and benefits, however privileging mostly 2-nodes setup for their low cost and easy to build. However, StarWind VSAN can easily be expanded to 3 or more nodes (up to 64 actually, which is a current limit of vSphere clusters). Those […]

VMware Tools 10.3.2 Released Fixing PSOD of 10.3.0 and including AppDefense

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A few months back VMware has released VMware tools version 10.3.0, but there was a bug causing PSOD for Windows OS and VMware has informed their customers about this issue. Note that this 10.3.0 release was affecting only vSphere 6.5 customers. Today VMware has released VMware tools 10.3.2 and made the 10.3.0 version deprecated. (The […]

VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 Announced and Now Available For Download

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VMware has announced, during VMworld Las Vegas, a new major update to their flagship virtualization product, VMware vSphere 6.7 U1. This release has some major enhancements so here is our post which details that. One of the first ones which will touch every user is perhaps the fact that the HTML 5 web client is […]

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