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The Veeam Managed Hardened Repository is a bootable ISO based on Rocky Linu...
The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository...
The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository...
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDisk Drill is an file undelete for Windows and MacOSX that permit to recover your data in a matter of minutes and in an easy way. Any storage device you can connect to your Windows PC can be scanned by our free data recovery software. The free version recovers up to 500MB, otherwise you can buy the PRO or Enterprise version.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the (few) new products announce during the VMworld US 2016 was the VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) 3.0 release. OpenStack is an framework for providing developers with cloud-style APIs and tools on top of a choice of virtual infrastructure technologies. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFinally VMware has announced some good news about the vSphere clients: for the (old/legacy) C# client and the web/flash one: the C# client (AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) will not be available for the next version of vSphere (finally!). Current versions of vSphere (6.0, 5.5) will not be affected, as those will follow the standard support period. the web client based on Adobe Flash, will be soon replace (finally!) with a new vSphere pure HTML5 Web Client (actually available through a Fling).
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you are running an HP customized image of ESXi on some old Proliant server, you may have some issues as describe in KB 2094618 (The hp-ams process does not stop when restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers) When restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers running versions of HP Agentless Management Service (AMS) prior to 10.1.0 , you experience these symptoms: In the Recent Tasks pane of vCenter Server, you see multiple tasks in the In Progress state Virtual machines that still […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs promised in the last VMworld, now VMware has introduced two new less-expensive versions of its NSX product targeted for the mid-enterprise. Also on NSX there are now different editions with different prices and, of course, features. The full version will be the Enterprise one (sigh… on vSphere Enterprise has gone, wasn’t better call it Enterprise Plus), the intermediate Advanced and the starter just Standard. No Essential or Essential Plus, but will be difficult and non sense (yet) apply this kind of technology to the small business.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware best practices for virtual networking, starting with vSphere 5, usually recommend the vmxnet3 virtual NIC adapter for all VMs with a “recent” operating systems: starting from NT 6.0 (Vista and Windows Server 2008) for Windows and for Linux that include this driver in the kernel, and for virtual machines version 7 and later. For those operating systems the choice is normally between the e1000 or the vmxnet3 adapter: the new virtual machine wizard suggest the e1000 for the recent Windows systems, but only because this driver is included in the OSes. Historically there were some […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen you create a new virtual machine in VMware vSphere (or also on a standalone ESXi) a default virtual hardware is choosed, according with the version of the ESXi. You can choose your own (with the custom wizard) or upgrade later, but note that the virtual hardware upgrade from the vSphere Client will always upgrade to the latest version supported by the host. Otherwise the upgrade from the vSphere Web Client you can choose the different version of virtual hardware.
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