VMware Horizon is a platform for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and allows organizations to virtualize desktops or applications for a more centralized system of IT service delivery. It can be…
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“Patch Tuesday” has been in the IT lexicon for as long as I remember. For many, many years Tuesday has been Microsoft’s designated day to release patches to Windows. In…
If you’re evaluating Veeam for the first time, congratulations. Veeam is awesome. However, Veeam has a ton of licensing levels and options, which can make it hard for you to…
Backups are inarguably the single most important thing that any IT person can do for their organization. It matters little that you achieve 99.9999% uptime for six years, if on…
Hold onto your hats, folks, because the way Veeam’s Instance Licensing works is an industry first. Veeam is focusing on creating more “portable” licensing for those who have hybrid- or…
It sounds cool, but do you need it? The release of vSphere 6.7 Update 1 came with a new edition of VMware called vSphere Platinum. VMware’s target for vSphere Platinum…
As of July 2017, VMware Enterprise was no longer available for purchase. While most news outlets out there still says you can renew your VMware Enterprise support through March of…
VMware released Update 1 to vSphere 6.7 the end of September with a lot of cool, new features. However, like always, it’s extremely important to first verify compatibility with your…
Traditional agent-based antivirus does not play well in virtualized environments, whether it be server or desktop. When resources are consolidated, there can be major performance impacts during scans, including disk…
An ESXi host has access to multiple different networks, but most of them are only for guest VMs to traverse. There are, however, some networks that the kernel itself needs…
The writing has been on the wall for many years now, but it’s finally happening. With the next numeric version of vSphere (6.6, 7.0, whatever it’s going to be called)…
Correctly calculating the storage space required for your virtual snapshots can be tricky to determine and can have devastating effects if done incorrectly. If your snapshots exceed your storage capacity,…