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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 2, 2024

SmartOS – The Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor for the Modern Data Center

As businesses face tough choices amidst licensing changes, SmartOS emerges as a FREE, enterprise-ready solution for your data center needs.
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Oleg Pankevych
  • Oleg Pankevych
  • March 28, 2024

Forgot the ESXi root password? No problems, here are 4 ways to reset it!

ESXi root password lost? No worries! Our latest article unveils 4 effective strategies to reset it, ensuring you maintain access and control over your infrastructure. Whether you’re accessing via vCenter or dealing with standalone hosts, we’ve simplified the process for you.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • March 21, 2024

VMware ESXi disk provision. How does it work, what is the difference, and which one is better for me?

As the name of this article is hinting, I’m going to discuss the answers to the said questions. My beginner colleagues are often wondering what virtual disk is preferable to choose. Therefore, although I was talking about this topic a while ago here and there, it’s time to get to the point.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • March 17, 2024

Having trouble adding an AWS Storage Gateway iSCSI target on VMware ESXi cluster? Fix it in a few steps

Last year, my colleague asked me for advice. He couldn’t add an iSCSI target, provided by AWS Storage Gateway, on VMware ESXi cluster. So, initially, this material was intended to serve as a manual. However, since I got a similar question once more just recently, I realized that this topic could be interesting to the others as well, which is why I decided to share this guide, hoping it will be useful.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • March 6, 2024

Upgrading VCSA 6.5 to 6.7u2

There are always several reasons to move on from your existing infrastructure. Some admins are pursuing recent versions of familiar products. Some, on the other hand, just want to get rid of the bugs they already learned to live with but would rather not. Others are attracted by promises to increase the performance of their environment. Finally, everybody wishes to go with the times and use the latest software. Whatever the reason, we all eventually come in terms with the necessity to upgrade the infrastructure to the most recent version.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • March 5, 2024

VMware SD-WAN Enhanced Firewall Services – who is it for, what problems does it solve and how does it work?

Protecting your network has never been easier. Introducing VMware SD-WAN Enhanced Firewall Services – the ultimate solution for modern cybersecurity challenges.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 27, 2024

Why You Should Consider XCP-ng as an Alternative to VMware

Considering a switch from VMware? Whether you’re a small business tightening the budget or an enterprise seeking greater flexibility, XCP-ng, an open-source XenServer-based virtualization platform, offers a compelling alternative to VMware.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • February 19, 2024

Tips and Tricks to Troubleshoot Poor vSphere Performance

As any other admin, you know that the VMs eventually start to suffer from disruptions, performance problems, or simply stop responding. That is a fact of life, unfortunately. Chances are, as a virtualization engineer, you’ve probably already met these problems at least once. And since the virtualized environment is quite a complicated system, there can be too many different reasons or factors that impact poor VM performance. Trying to find out what is wrong can take a lot of your time.
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Diana Abo Harmouch
  • Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • February 1, 2024

Thick and Thin Provisioning: What’s the performance difference in context of VMware vSphere 

Thick and Thin VM disks have been around for ages, yet there’s always been some controversy regarding which method is better and whether there’s any performance difference. Discover the key differences and features of Thick and Thin disks, and choose the most optimal space allocation method for your environment.
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