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 …
Passwords. Can’t live without them, and yet we can’t stop forgetting them. Of course, you probably have a great system for documenting and storing your passwords, right? If not, there …
VMware released a variety of great features in vSphere 6.5, including support for HA for NVIDIA GRID technology. This is great news for some of our VDI customers. Previously this …
Sometimes there’s only a need to restore the changes made to a VM and not the full enchilada, and using change block tracking (CBT) is great for that. However, there …
When it comes to configuring your virtual environment, it’s very important that you select the right disk types for your needs or you could encounter outages, wasted storage or face …
VMware will be consolidating their six licensing packages down to three: vSphere Standard, vSphere Enterprise Plus, vSOM Enteprise Plus. The biggest change we see, effective March 1, is the end-of-life …
UPDATE: Well, that was short lived. There are now two new issues popping up for vSphere 6 that are pretty serious. KB2143943 is a bug that causes vMotion to not …
VMware NSX was heavily talked about two years ago when VMware first launched it, but no one seemed to truly understand what it was or what it did. Since then …
In vSphere 6, it’s clear that VMware worked hard to match the general look and feel of the thick client to the web client. If you’re dreading the impending transition from …
A KB article by VMware was published earlier this month outlining a CBT bug in all the versions of ESX(i). The bug seems to have appeared after block tracking was …
In our previous blog, we talked about budget cycles – but our budgeting misery still doesn’t end there. Next, we’re going to tackle how we begin building an IT budget that’s functional, what exactly we need to …