Today, I’ve searched for some possible Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) options and found bellow products, some are popular and some are new (at least for me), so here the list. Brand Product Last Version Product Page Download Page Info VMware, Inc. vSphere Storage Appliance (VMware VSA) 5.1.1 link link Documentation HP StoreVirtual VSA ??? link […]
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Windows Server 2012 as Home Lab Storage Server
After long absence I’m starting my work on this blog and other projects. For the first post I’d try to summarize the step needed to install and configure iSCSI or NFS server by using “Microsoft Windows Server 2012” for home lab based on “VMware ESXi 5.x” but for step-by-step visual guide “Windows Server 2012 – File and […]
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VMware vSphere 5.1
Few days back, “VMware, Inc.” has released newest version of “VMware vSphere” (Sept 10, 2012) and in this post, I want to share some links for documents, pages and posters. All in one place: Thanks to “Eric Siebert“, Here is a another great post on his site (vSphere-Land) which will help you find all links for applications, documents and […]
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SlideRocket & Microsoft Certifications
This post a little different from my other posts here and title might look unrelated but here the story. I’ve made a little online presentation (road map) using “SlideRocket” for “Microsoft Certifications” and I’m going to update time to time based on “Microsoft” announcements. When I tried to place it here (tested both post and […]
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Using VMware PowerCLI (#007) – Remote PowerCLI
I’m working on new SMB project which need running application remotely and I thought it’s good time to work on “Microsoft Remote Desktop Service” on “Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1”. In this case, server should be configured in a way to present application for remote access and here I came up with idea of presenting […]
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AWESOME, “Veeam Backup Free Edition” is released
Yesterday “June 04, 2012”, “Veeam Software, Inc.” has released one new awesome product. This product is based on newer version of their award-winning product, “Veeam Backup & Replication” with no host, physical socket or virtual machine limitation (Free Edition). And here, just part of great news about “Free Edition”: Backup & Recover VMs form Environments […]
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Using VMware PowerCLI (#006) – Deploy Template (v0.4)
I’ve edited “DTS (v0.3)” so it can generate “.csv” and accept input from “.csv” file as well. Feel free to send your comment and idea and if you find any bug/problem in this script please let me know, I hope this version can do better work and be useful. [wpdm_file id=8]
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Using VMware PowerCLI (#005) – Deploy Template (v0.3)
Thanks “nWill” for his kind comment on my previous post, I found a problem on “v0.2” and in “v0.3” I tried to fixed some problems previous script had such as not being able to work properly in environment with only one “Template, Customization Specification, Host, Resource Pool or vApp”. I’ve added some description as well as […]
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Using VMware PowerCLI (#004) – Deploy Template (v0.2)
Well, This is a second edition,enhanced or debugged version of my previous “Deploy Template” script. I tried to make it a little more user-friendly and added capability of selecting the location (Resource Pool/vApp) which user/admin can place their newly created VM(s) as well as capability of powering on VM(s) after their creation. Also this script […]
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Using VMware PowerCLI (#003) – Deploy Template
This script will help users/admins for deploying multiple VMs from one of available templates and unlike other scripts I saw so far which are file (answer file) based, this script is interactive and need and interaction of admin. In next version I’d try to add some more options like “adding to resource pool or vApp”, […]
