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Desktop Virtualization / Reviews

True SSO Diagnostic Utility

Another tools (Fling) has been released by VMware engineers and it’s useful same as other tools. Horizon True SSO has been introduced in VMware Horizon 7: Overview of True SSO True SSO provides a way to authenticate to Microsoft Windows, retaining all of the users’ normal domain privileges, without requiring them to provide AD credentials! True SSO is a VMware Horizon technology that integrates VMware Identity Manager 2.6 with Horizon 7. VMware Identity Manager Standard is included in VMware Horizon 7 Advanced and Enterprise Editions. With True SSO, a user can log into Identity Manager using any non-AD method (for example, RSA SecurID credentials) and once authenticated, the user is able to launch any entitled desktop or app (hosted from any domain) without ever being prompted for a password again! True SSO uses SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) to send the User Principal Name (for example, [email protected]) to the identity provider’s authentication system to access AD credentials. Horizon 7 then generates a unique, short-lived certificate for the Windows login process. Benefits of True SSO True SSO Separates authentication (validating a user’s identity) from access (such as to a specific Windows desktop or application). Provides enhanced security. User credentials are secured...

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Veeam Endpoint Backup

Veeam Endpoint Backup is a free solution that provided by Veeam and you can download it as free software and use on unlimited computer. I was one of BETA tester and I suggest using it and Veeam Backup&Replication together. You can use it for you physical system and it can be installed on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and later. So it can be installed even on your physical servers as backup software. But you know, it’s like a baby, it’s free and doesn’t have some features yet but it’s useful. Anyway, VEB (Veeam Endpoint Backup) lets you create the following backup types: Volume-Level File-Level Veeam Endpoint Backup lets you configure a scheduled backup job that will perform backup automatically in a timely manner or it can take backup on specific events. It can create ad-hoc backup and you can use this backup type when you are going to install software or doing any changes on your system or facing with alerts. VEB can stand-alone backup and also incremental backup. I don’t want to explain all its features and configurations, you can download this application from Veeam web site as free application and test it. Also Veeam provides...

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vCloud NFV Platform

VMware has announced Network Functions Virtulization (NFV) that helping communications services providers (CSPs) to accelerate their implementations and saving cost of implementation. vCloud Network Functions Virtulization is a solution for cloud based network deployment. This solution using other VMware solutions for operations, security and availability: VMware vSphere VMware vSphere with Operations Management and VMware vRealize Operations Insight VMware Virtual SAN VMWare vCloud Director for Service Providers VMware Integrated OpenStack VMware NSX VMware Site Recovery Manager You can check the product link for more information: vCloud Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)      

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HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell

HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell is a scripting tools for automating HP configuration task. Features Utilizes Proven PowerShell Technology The HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell provides consistent and reliable server configurations. Supports the standard PowerShell architecture and scripting model for a consistent infrastructure management experience. Object oriented—output from one command can be passed to another via a pipe command to reduce the effort of entering complex commands for a more efficient scripting. All HP PowerShell cmdlets have built-in Help functions that document syntax and usage examples. Reliable and Repeatable Scripting Capabilities The HP Scripting Tools for Windows PowerShell provides consistency and frees up scarce IT resources. Scales to support high volume of server configuration in minutes even remotely. Delivers consistent server configurations across multiple servers. Integrates into other deployment and configuration models that leverage PowerShell. Configure and managing Insight Lights Out (iLO), HP BIOS and Onboard Administrator (OA) HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO), HP BIOS, HP Onboard Administrator for HP BladeSystem Enclosures provide a comprehensive set of HP integration tools designed for IT experts in PowerShell scripting to configure a HP Server. HP BIOS cmdlets support both Legacy and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Boot Modes on Gen9 systems HP iLO 3...

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HP Power Advisor

HP Power Advisor is a tool that estimates your data center power requirements for your server and storage configurations. The new version (6.x) supporting ProLiant Gen9. The application is available as downloadable and Windows online application. You can download it from this link: HP Power Advisor And you can use online version via this link: Online Version Here is the application key features: Both a downloadable and online Windows application. Power Advisor online tool supports Google Chrome** and Mozilla Firefox. Accurately estimate power consumption of your HP server and storage products Select the appropriate power supplies and other system components Configure and plan power usage at a system, rack, and multi-rack level Access useful tools including a cost-of-ownership calculator, power report, and bill of materials [quotes_and_tips]

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Server 0

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OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Server

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Server is a software plug-in that integrates real-time lifecycle management of adapters provided by Emulex into the VMware vCenter console, using the desktop client or the vSphere 5.1 Web Client. This tight integration centralizes and simplifies virtualization management. OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Server builds on Emulex Common Information Model (CIM) providers and established OneCommand Manager features to proactively address key data center issues and improve operational efficiency across VMware hosts and clusters. The core functionality delivered includes multiprotocol management (Fibre Channel (FC), FC over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, Network Interface Card (NIC)), online firmware flashing, configuration updates, adapter diagnostics, plus flexible graphical and command line interfaces. Key Benefits Centrally manage adapters provided by Emulex from the VMware vCenter console using either the desktop client or vSphere Web Client Simplify adapter administration with centralized cross platform / cross-protocol management Respond quickly to infrastructure changes Streamline and automate network adapter deployment and updates Increase systems availability with online update, configuration and diagnostic tools Key Features Runs with either the vCenter desktop client or the vSphere Web Client Real-time lifecycle management of adapters provided by Emulex and ports via host, VMware cluster and fabric-centric views Update HBA firmware...

HP Scripting Toolkit for Windows and 0

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HP Scripting Toolkit for Windows and Linux

The Scripting Toolkit for Windows and Linux is a server deployment solution that deliver unattended automated installation for high-volume server and BladeSystem infrastructure deployments. You need to the below requirements for deploy OS on your servers by the tools: Scripting Toolkit for Linux or Windows A Linux workstation (any Linux distribution) Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 8. 1 and Server 20 1 2 R2 (for the creation of Windows PE 5.0) or Microsoft Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8 and Windows Server 20 1 2 (for the creation of Windows PE 4.0). The Scripting Tools can deploy Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 and most of Linux Server distributions. The deployment steps for Linux and Windows are as follows: Linux: Create a network share. Prepare the bootable media (CD/DVD, USB drive key , or PXE). Configure the system and storage hardware on the target server . Perform the operating system installation. Windows: Create a network share. Prepare the bootable media (CD/DVD, USB drive key , or PXE). Configure the system and storage hardware on the target server . Install the operating system. Update the drivers and agents as needed. You can download the Scripting Tools...

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Free Tools / Reviews

HP Lights-Out Stand Alone Remote Console for Windows

HP Lights-Out Stand Alone Remote Console is a tool for connecting to your iLO4 or iLO3 remote console without going through the iLO web-based user interface. This Last version (1.2.3) has been released at 24 Jul 2014. You can download it from HP site. Launching from the Command Line: During start-up, this application will pop up a dialog box asking for login information. The dialog box will be bypassed if the login information is provided on the command line as follows: HPLOCONS –addr address[:https_port] –name login_name –password password –lang language_code address DNS name or IP address https_port SSL port. Default is 443. login_name login name password Password language-code en, ja, or zh-CHS   Requirements: .NET Framework 3.5 (SP1 is recommended), 4.0 or 4.5 ProLiant or Integrity server with an iLO management processor Limitations: Older computers or computers without accelerated graphics will require significantly more CPU overhead. If a firewall is in use, shared remote console will require a firewall exception. The default ports are 17990 for KVM and 17988 for virtual media. The local and remote mouse cursors will be unsynchronized on Linux unless the HP mouse driver is installed.  

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Chocolatey!

Chocolatey NuGet is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. It’s awesome! Install applications automatically by running a command! Test it.

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Kolibrios – One of smallest OS

This is one of smallest OS over the world and you can use it for learning basics of computer to your children or students. This OS needs to 8 MB RAM and it’s very very small but has most abilities of a modern OS. Also it has a friendly GUI and has some useful applications such as viewers and editors. This OS supports read and write on FAT/FAT16/FAT32 and read NTFS partitions. You can download live and installable image for this link: http://kolibrios.org/en/download See some screen-shots from this OS:    

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ESXi Command-Line – Part 1

ESXi has some commands with esxcfg prefix for doing some advanced tasks on shell. Of course, you can do the tasks by ESXCLI commands but the esxcfg commands are useful. Let’s review some of them: esxcfg-advcfg You can use this command to configure or show system advanced settings in ESXi Note: You can use “esxcli system settings advanced” instead of this command. esxcfg-dumppart When using the ESXi Shell, you can configure your system to save core dumps to a local partition or to use the ESXi Dump Collector and save core dumps to a prespecified local or remote partition. You can use “esxcli coredump partition” instead of this command. esxcfg-info This command using for find some information about hardware and software in ESXi, there is no other command and there is no alternative for this command in ESXCLI. esxcfg-swiscsi and esxcfg-hwiscsi These commands using for configuring iSCSi on ESXi, you can use “esxcli iscsi” instead of these commands. esxcfg-scsidevs  This command is using for configure SCSI devices and also you can use “esxcli storage” instead of this. esxcfg-module This command supports manipulation of the VMkernel loadable modules and device drivers. You can use “system module” command in ESXCLI. esxcfg-mpath supports listing...

HP ASR – Automatic Server Recovery 0

Reviews / Server Hardware

HP ASR – Automatic Server Recovery

How much do you know about HP ASR? How it works? The ASR feature is a hardware-based timer. If a true hardware failure occurs, the Health Monitor might not be called, but the server will be reset as if the power switch were pressed. The ProLiant ROM code may log an event to the IML when the server reboots. ASR Timeout The ASR Timeout option sets a timeout limit for resetting a server that is not responding. When the server has not responded in the selected amount of time, the server automatically resets. The available time increments are: 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes 5 minutes This ASR feature is implemented using a “heartbeat ” timer that continually counts down. The Health Monitor frequently reloads the counter to prevent it from counting down to zero. If the ASR counts down to zero, it is assumed that the operating system has locked up and the system will automatically attempt to reboot. Events which may contribute to the operating system locking up include: A peripheral device − such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Specification (PCI) adapter − that generates numerous spurious interrupts when it fails. A high priority software application...

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Backup & Replication / Reviews

Veeam Backup & Replication – Bottleneck Analysis

Veeam BR informing you about backup job and backup infrastructure performance when job is finished and you will see a window same as the below: Load: Source 54% > Proxy 27% > Network 47% > Target 33% Primary bottleneck: Source What does it mean? No matter what job you are running, and how you have the product deployed, there are 4 main data processing stages that data passes in the specific order (think data processing conveyor). These are Source > Proxy > Network > Target, and each processing stage has a load monitoring counter associated with it. “Source” is the source (production) storage disk reader component. The percent busy number for this component indicates percent of time that the source disk reader spent reading the data from the storage. For example, 99% busy means that the disk reader spent all of the time reading the data, because the following stages are always ready to accept more data for processing. This means that the source data retrieval speed is the bottleneck for the whole data processing conveyor. As opposed to that, 1% busy means that the source disk reader only spent 1% of time actually reading the data (and required data blocks...

VMware View 5.3 Features 0

Desktop Virtualization / News / Reviews

VMware View 5.3 Features

Finally, VMware Horizon View 5.3 is available and you can download that from this link. Some new features are added to this product by VMware: 3D graphics with virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA) Improved Real-Time Audio-Video experience and performance Enhancement to mobility features in HTML5 and Unity Touch Windows 8.1 support VMware® ThinApp® 5.0 Combining View with VMware Horizon Mirage™ 4.3 Reduce storage with VMware Virtual San™ (VSAN) beta Support for Windows Server 2008 for virtual desktops View Agent Direct Connection (VADC) All of the features are awesome. You can deliver better experiences to your users by new graphic acceleration even for gaming, reduce your application management by ThinApp 5.0 that this new version supporting 64 bit applications. Use your local disk as SAN storage by vSAN and reduce cost. vSAN is introducde with vSphere 5.5. New plugin is very useful when you need to use a virtual desktop as dashboard, you can access to disjoined virtual desktop or login to more than one virtual desktops by that same as RDP sessions. I recommend, use this new version of View, if you have a plan for deploy virtual desktops. in new site

vMotion bandwidth requirements 0

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vMotion bandwidth requirements

250Mbps is the minimum required bandwidth for a vMotion migration. For example, to perform two concurrent vMotion migrations, you must provision at least 500Mbps of dedicated bandwidth for the vMotion network. Greater available bandwidth lets migrations complete more quickly. Lack of sufficient bandwidth might impact the performance of virtual machine workloads and potentially lead to migration failure. For idle virtual machines with no running workloads and low memory use, you might be able to complete vMotion migrations even when less dedicated bandwidth is available. However, vMotion is supported only in environments that meet the  bandwidth requirement. WAN optimization techniques, such as compression and deduplication, improve throughput but do not count towards the minimum required bandwidth for vMotion. Gains in throughput resulting from optimization might vary. Even if your environment employs such techniques, you must provision 250Mbps dedicated bandwidth per concurrent vMotion migration.