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VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

Exciting news for virtualization enthusiasts and tech professionals! VMware has made a significant announcement that will undoubtedly impact the virtualization community. The renowned VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro, previously premium products, are now available for free for personal use. A New Era for VMware Desktop Hypervisor Products VMware Desktop Hypervisor products, including Fusion and […]

Optimizing Windows Event Logs for Enhanced Security and Troubleshooting

Introduction Windows Event Logs are crucial for both security and troubleshooting within IT environments. Whether you’re managing a datacenter or overseeing the security of an enterprise network, optimizing these logs can save valuable time and enhance your overall security posture. In this article, we’ll explore best practices for managing Windows Event Logs, advanced filtering techniques, […]

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2024

👋 As we gear up for 2024, let’s dive into the 🔝 trends that are set to shape the IT landscape according to Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends. 🌐✨ 1️⃣ AI as Partner: AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM) * Supports AI model governance, trustworthiness, fairness, reliability, robustness, transparency and data protection […]

Vmware Vsphere: Network Security Considerations

Which networks should be isolated for security reasons? Network security in the vSphere environment shares many characteristics with securing a physical network environment. Isolation of network traffic is essential to a secure vSphere environment. Isolation prevents snooping. Isolate networks for specific applications or functions: • iSCSI • NFS • Virtual SAN • Management Network segmentation […]

Vmware Vsphere and SAN storage best practices

Storage Path Redundancy Considerations: Multipathing provides both availability and load balancing for performance. Consider these guidelines when designing multipathing: • Always configure storage multipathing. • For availability, use a minimum of two active paths to a LUN: — Four paths are better because this configuration accommodates more types of failures. • Configure paths using two […]

Configure certificate in VMware Tanzu

TASK 1: GENERATE A CSR In the vSphere Client, select your Tanzu Cluster name and select Configure > Namespaces > Certificates. In the Workload Platform MGT tile, click the Actions drop-down menu and select Generate CSR. Configure the CSR. NOTE: The value for the common name must be DNS name of your Vmware Tanzu cluster (As it can be seen […]

Commvault, Netbackup, EMC networker benchmark – 22.11.2016

The comparison criteria that I made for the enterprise backup software towards the end of 2016 are as follows:   Feature Capability Can it back up its own deduplicated disk has it DR active management server The difficulty of AlwaysON SQL Restore Reporting backup and restore the last full backup with the command Get VM […]

Hitachi VSP (or HPE XP) host mode options

When you create host group on Hitachi VSP (or HPE XP) series, you can use these best practices for most used operating systems. For all operating systems: If you have GAD ( or HA) you must enable 88(Port Consolidation) in Host Mode Options. For Windows, host mode is  2C [Windows Extension] Enable from host mod […]

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