Heads Up! Do Not Upgrade VMware Tools on Hosts with ESXi 6.0 U1b
Heads Up! If you’ve updated to ESXi 6.0 U1b, build 3380124 and you have lots of templates, you…
Nutanix: First Hyperconverged Vendor with SAP Certified Platform
Nutanix is the only hyperconverged company in the Leaders of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, and recently became…
Heads up! Backing up a virtual machine with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) enabled fails in ESXi 6.0
This problem is now over 4 months old but seems to have started being reported more. Over the…
The Need To Reboot ESXi Hosts After vCenter Upgrade
Most of you will be intimately familiar with vCenter Server. It provides the main management capabilities in a VMware Virtualized…
Performance Testing MySQL and PostgreSQL with HammerDB and PGBench
There are a lot of environments that are running MySQL and PostgreSQL to support their systems. My team…
Installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro
Cumulus Linux is the answer to companies that want to run software defined networking on a range of…
VMworld 2014 Wrap Up
Another VMworld event is over and it’s hard to believe it’s been a whole 12 months since the…
VMware Turns Off TPS Taps in vSphere ESXi and vCloud Air to Avoid Rare VMescape Security Bug
VMware has announced that it will turn off TPS in upcoming version of it’s hypervisor ESXi and vCloud Air hybrid…
Exchange Best Practices and 1.4Million Mailboxes on Nutanix NX-8150
Nutanix has recently published a Best Practice Guide for Mictosoft Exchange on VMware vSphere and Josh Odgers explains some…
Is Your Heart and Data Bleeding From the Shell Shock?
If you thought Ebola was deadly to humans wait till you get a load of the latest security…