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…
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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,…
Since virtualization encompasses so much in your environment, there are a lot of small ways it can go wrong. When we wrote our first installment, we realized there were quite…
While vSphere 6.5 came out with a bunch of great enhancements and features, Veeam may take a really large performance impact due to some fundamental changes. So, if you’re a…
Earlier last month, VMware released Horizon 7.1, which has major features and improvements. Today I’m going to focus on a couple that specifically improve the VDI user experience. Blast Extreme…