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Kevin Soltow
April 21, 2020

VMware Tools 11: What’s This All About?

Before starting to talk about new features and improvements, I suggest we take a little trip down memory lane.

Vladan Seget
April 16, 2020

What are the differences between VMware Tools and Open-VM tools?

Deliberating about choosing the necessary suite should consider various issues. For Windows VMs it’s just VMware tools and that’s it. For Linux VMs, you have to abide by the VMware Compatibility Guide, which is very strict, as you know. Open-VM tools are not worse, even better at some points, than the VMware ones, but nuances are due.

Romain Serre
April 14, 2020

Enable Active Directory authentication over SMB for Azure file shares

Establishing VPN connections to your on-prem infrastructure and then managing resources from there can be too complicated and straining. To simplify that process, you can now use Azure Active Directory: deliver Kerberos and NTLM tokens for Azure Files, access company data from anywhere, add cache servers to ROBO, and more.

Didier Van Hoye
April 9, 2020

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part II

In the previous part, the article focused on the design of HA SMTP relay solutions. It also outlined the steps you should take to correctly prepare for setting up. In this part, you will get the detailed step-by-step guide on how to actually set up the solution without any trouble. The process is cumbersome but manageable.

Didier Van Hoye
April 7, 2020

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part I

This article is part one of a two-part series on configuring a highly available, on-premises SMTP relay solution. In this part, we discuss the design and do all the preparational work before setting up the actual SMTP relay solution in part two.

Florent Appointaire
April 2, 2020

[Azure] Dedicated Hosts

With Azure Dedicated Host, you get the ability to isolate your compliance-related workload VMs, so that capacity isn’t shared to VMs catering to customers. You get a dedicated Hyper-V host that provides control over the mentioned workload separately, allowing to set the maintenance policies of the host. The service comes as a SaaS.

Kevin Soltow
April 2, 2020

ESXi vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: Pros & Cons

Previously, I shared my experience with certain problems with NIC Load Balancing on ESXi host and how they can be solved with ESXCLI. Some of my colleagues have been asking me what the difference between several types of load balancing and which one is better for use is. So, now I’m sharing my thoughts about concepts of network environment load balancing on the infrastructure level.

Dmitriy Dolgiy
April 1, 2020

Hyper-V Replica

Today I’m planning on telling you as much as I know about virtual machine replication function in the Hyper-V environment with the current version of Windows Server 2019 OS as an example.

Paolo Valsecchi
March 31, 2020

Migrate Azure AD Connect to a New Server

Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is a sync tool usually used to synchronize Active Directory accounts with the Office 365 environment. If the need to migrate to a new server emerges, you have to follow specific steps in strict order to migrate your AAD Connect tool first to avoid any synchronization issues.

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VMware Tools 11: What’s This All About?

What are the differences between VMware Tools and Open-VM tools?

Enable Active Directory authentication over SMB for Azure file shares

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part II

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part I

[Azure] Dedicated Hosts

ESXi vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: Pros & Cons

Hyper-V Replica

Migrate Azure AD Connect to a New Server