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Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to extend their Software Suite
Xangati Released Two New Dashboards to complete their Software Suite
Xangati just announced two new dashboards in their software suite. Xangati is a specialist in end-to-end real time monitoring, but their product offers some unique capabilities, like storm tracking or automatic recording when your infrastructure is performing badly. There is new Executive Dashboardwhich offers an overall view of VDI and VI components and also detailed recordings and reporting.…
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WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 allows saving storage and memory
WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 allows saving storage and memory
The latest update of Windows 8.1 brings an interesting functionality which allows to use lower end machines with small SSDs save space so If you have such a PC or tablet which has a small SSD and struggling to get everything installed, you might consider this type of installation. It’s called Windows Image Boot (or WIMBoot) and allows to organize the disk partitions different way by keeping the…
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Cisco Topspin 120 - Homelab Infiniband silence
Cisco Topspin 120 – Homelab Infiniband silence
The old Cisco Topspin 120 are cheap infiniband switches, but very noisy. You can get one for roughly $200 on eBay. If you’re planning for cheap VSAN lab, it might be your interest to read how to make the device more quiet. I’m using one of those in my lab for a backend storage network traffic. While I’m waiting for some more parts I ordered to complete the lab, I was horrified with the noise the…
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How to publish RDS application in Horizon View 6
How to publish RDS application in Horizon View 6
Horizon 6 announced few days back brought a clearly new wind into the desktop virtualization space. Where in the past the VDI was often subject of performance and cost, see ROI. We might see this changing, is the 2014 finally the year of the VDI? Yesterday’s post showed How to add RDS functionality to Horizon Viewby creating an RDS desktop pool. In today’s article we’ll show further steps which…
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How to add RDS functionality to Horizon View 6
How to add RDS functionality to Horizon View 6
The newly announced Horizon View 6 flagship product from VMware brought great enhancementsfrom the architectural point of view as you could already read about in my yesterday’s post. However from the administrator’s point of view (not from the architect’s perspective) there are some really cool features that I’d like to point out in this post. The one I’d like to talk about today is the RDS…
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VMware Horizon View 6 - Major evolution in architecture and tighter integration of suite components
VMware Horizon View 6 – Major evolution in architecture and tighter integration of suite components
VMware Horizon View 6 has been announced by VMware. This major update to VMware Horizon brings some major enhancements into the architecture, concerning Cloud Pod Architecture, which now supports global entitlements across View pods, RDS hosted apps, VMware VSAN (supported since View 5.3.1).
Also new Application catalogwhich provides unified access to desktops and applications (previously…
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VMware Labs updated VMware tools for ESXi
VMware Labs updated VMware tools for ESXi
There was an update of VMware tools for nested ESXi on VMware Labs website recently. The new update allows to report IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses for nested ESXi guests.
If you don’t use VMware tools for your nested lab, you should as it allows to interract with the ESXi OS the same way as you do interact with other OSes. It means that your mouse is not stuck inside the nested…
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VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8] Free Training
VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8] Free Training
VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 which has been released last month is fully compatible with vSphere 5.5 U1. The product grew further with new feature and enhancements. While you can read what’s new below, I’d like to point you to New Free 2 hours training for VMware Horizon Workspace 1.8 called VMware Horizon Workspace Fundamentals [V1.8].
If you’re new to Horizon you might want to check some of my…
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How to reset ESXi 5.x root password and under which conditions
How to reset ESXi 5.x root password and under which conditions
I had this question recently through an e-mail and was sure that I already wrote about it. After some research I figured out that a blog post would clear theVMware says that it’s not possible to reset ESXi password on ESXi 5.x systems. However under certain circumstances, there is a possibility to change (to reset) the root password.
There are two conditions to reset ESXi 5.x root password:
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Shadowing RDS connections in Windows 2012 R2
Shadowing RDS connections in Windows 2012 R2
Some sources reported that Microsoft has removed the possibility to shadow RDS connections in Windows 2012, but then put it back in the Windows 2012 R2 release. I quickly checked in my labon two VMs, but saw that both versions of Windows Server 2012 allows that. I thought that it might interest someone, that’s why this post. Shadowing RDS connections was here since ages. the feature was present…
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Clean Installation and Configuration of vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U1 (VCSA)
Clean Installation and Configuration of vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 U1 (VCSA)
In this video you’ll see the detailed process of installation and configuration of vCenter Server 5.5 U1 appliance. The installation and configuration takes minutes. I cut perhaps 2-3 min when I recorded the video, not more. It gives you the rough idea of the process and implication. The install process got really simple and the appliance is more robust than in the past.
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vExpert 2014 announced - check it out!
vExpert 2014 announced – check it out!
This year’s vExperts 2014 were announced! Check it out. I’ve been honored again as a vExpert this year. Great thanks to VMware and vExpert team behind the program.
It’s Correy Romero who announced the news on the VMTN blog. This year over 700 vExperts (exactly 754 vExperts this year) were named. Here is the full list of lucky people for 2014 – vExperts 2014.
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Double Commander - Free File manager Windows, Linux, MacOS
Double Commander – Free File manager Windows, Linux, MacOS
I stumbled through this file manager called Double Commander. It’s not the first one I was testing in the past. If you remember, last year I have actually published an article which showed another free file manager based on tabbedapproach. Today I’ll show you another free utility, a file manager which might be useful when you doing a lot of copy-paste or cut-paste operations. It’s Open source…
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