When you embark on the journey of VM replication, it’s crucial to go beyond the basic steps and understand the nuances that can make a significant difference in your replication strategy. Here are some tips and best practices to keep in mind: Key Technical Choices: Testing and Validation: Scalability andRead More →
Backup and recovery are pivotal in ensuring data availability and safeguarding essential business information. Combining VMware virtualization with BDRSuite offers a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution. This blog post outlines various best practices to optimize your VMware backup activities. Advantages of BDRSuite BDRSuite isn’t just a backup and disasterRead More →
Use the following steps to upgrade your ESXi version to the latest version without download patches first! We are going to use Putty to talk against the command line š First step, put your ESXi server into maintenance mode : Now we are going to check the profile version weRead More →
Follow these steps to create a bootable USB installer. Download Rufus here. You might also want to download the ESXi installer here. Now connect the USB drive to your computer and open rufus : Select your VMware ESXi ISO image : Leave all the default settings to default and clickRead More →
If you have found yourself in a scenario where you would like to use Hyper-V as a test environment for your virtual machines, but you are usingĀ VMware ESXi Server,Citrix XenServer orĀ VirtualBoxĀ then this tutorial is for you. Required software Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 availableĀ here. WinRar (or any tool you preferRead More →
I’ve noticed that when I’m running on some (high resolution) laptops I’m unable to see the whole console screen of a VM guest. Connecting those laptops to a docking resolves the problem. As you can see in the following example you don’t see only a quarter of the console sessionRead More →
The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012/10 systems for use with the VMware Hypervisor. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows system services are enabled by default, theRead More →
Hereby my review of Vembu BDR version 3.6.Ā Vembu BDR Suite is an all-in-one universal solution for backing up your VMware and Hyper-V environments as well as physical servers. Ā Vembu BDR Suite products cover backup & recovery of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Windows Servers Desktops/Laptops, File Servers, Applications like MSRead More →
VeeamĀ® is happy to provide a free NFR license (1 year, 2 sockets) to all VMware vExperts, MVPs, VTEC members, Certified Engineers and Trainers*. This license allows for non-production use of Veeam Availabilty Suiteā¢ 9,5 in your home lab, without any feature limitations. The license works for both VMware andRead More →
Backup is more and more important. That’s why there are several company’s proving great products for this. Nakivo has their Backup & Replication tool for VMware (and Amazon but that will not be covered right now) and in this blogpost you find my experiences. Nakivo backup & Replication (NBR fromRead More →