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Nakivo backup & replication v4.0 released

Nakivo announced the release of their fourth version for backup & replication. Nakivo backup & replication is build for handling virtual infrastructures and is certified by VMware. The product works agent less and is meant for both onsite and offsite … Read More

Latency is no longer a concern!!

No matter if your business require low or high bandwidth  network you definitely need a low latency network that will back you up in every angle and every application your business needs, VoIP imagine how much benefit you gain by … Read More

One click install wordpress on Ubuntu 14.04

Start by creating a droplet and specify your host name then select region you come from. Select “WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04” from Application tab. If you use SSH keys to manage your droplets, which are more secure than passwords and … Read More

Make a Windows application use OS X full screen mode when using Coherence Mode in Parallels

You can now make individual Windows apps use OS X full screen with parallels using a key-combination. When the windows application is active press CMD-CTRL+F and finally it’s using OS X full screen and you can set it in mission … Read More

Install phpLDAPadmin to Manage LDAP with a Web Interface

We are going to learn how to administer LDAP using the web interface though you can do that using the command line.phpLDAPadmin provides this functionality thus we are going to install it to help us remove some of the friction … Read More

How to Remove LinkedIn contact birthdays from your iPhone Calendar

When you add the linkedin app on your iphone it is dutifully populated by iphone calendar with everyone’s birthday which when interested is nice but when you are challenged for screen estate on the iphone, it becomes a problem. Honestly … Read More

How to monitor what your vCAC IaaS Server is doing in real-time

vCAC is known to be a very complex product with a lot of moving parts, it is a lot of work to have to move back and forth between monitoring views in the UI. The IaaS server is a windows … Read More

How to install and configure Slim Framework on Ubuntu 14.04

This post is to show how to install and configure slim framework on a VPS. We assume that you have a LAMP( or your preferred )stack installed on Ubuntu.if your application won’t be using MySQL, you can skip its installation. … Read More

How to create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 14.04

TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its predecessor SSL (secure sockets layer) are secure protocols created in order to place normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. These protocols allow traffic to be sent safely between remote parties without the possibility … Read More

vShield Host preparation: Host not reachable

This is a small but useful tip when you are using the vShield and want to prepare a new ESXi host. The problem is when you click on the vShield tad inside the vSphere client you might see the message … Read More

Veeam: Unable to install Windows 2008 R2 SP1 error 800F0A12

A friend of mine was running windows 2008 R2 without Searvise pack 1, when he decided to run the service pack 2 one of  his test Veeam Backups servers he got an error message. To solve this nuisance problem follow … Read More

vCops: Empty dashboard after the upgrade to version 5.6

This came to me as a surprise when I upgraded to vCenter Operations  5.0.3( vApp ) to vCenter Operations 5.6, instead of what I was expecting I got an empty screen when I  started the vCenter Operations Manager website and … Read More

vCheck6 Utility Commands

There is a new release of the vCheck6 and those with need for more info they can visit the vCheck 6 release page and ensure to visit the vCheck plugins page for the available plugins. Below are what I think … Read More

vCenter Operations: Disable the default web timeout

This is just a quick post I thought to remind us how to disable the default web timeout of 30 minutes in vCenter Operations. Login as root on the UI VM. Open the the web.xml file with VI: vi/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat/webapps/vcops-vsphere/WEB-INF/web.xml Change … Read More

Upload Media to vCloud with PowerCLI

This script is a way in which you can upload your media to your vCloud Director Catalog.it is a really nice script for those of us with many ISOs you need to put somewhere safe. Hope it helps: $isoFolder = … Read More

Syslog gone mad after vSphere upgrade vSphere 5.1 update 1

Syslog gone mad  I experienced this when I upgraded from vSphere 5.0 update 2 host to vSphere 5.1 update 1 I noticed an issue with the Isassd daemon, after the update manager finished with the upgrade the Isassd starts to … Read More

Release: Veam Backup & Replication 6.5

For those not aware, there has been a new release of the Veam Backup & Replication 6.5. It’s very interesting, the first backup solution for vSphere 5.1 and windows Server 2012 Hyper-3.0. A well brief of the new features can … Read More

PowerShell your world cup

PowerShell This is something that is very exciting and if you are interested you should try it. I found the post and tried it. Here is a function and how you use them. Go to the kimono website and sign … Read More

PowerCLI: enable SSH and configure ESXi host Firewall

Here is a post to help you be able to configure SSH to start automatically. This is done by PowerCLI scripts that hide the shell warning message and configure the ESXi firewall to allow connection from specific  IP addresses. You first … Read More

vCloud VM and VApp Backups with PowerCLI

It appears that at times snapshots solve it and asking the vCloud VM provider to set up backups is unrealistic, these examples will explain it: • Upgrades with testing could take longer than a snapshot can exist. • Temporary workloads … Read More

How to install and configure OpenLDAP on Ubuntu 14.04 Server

LDAP, or lightweight directory access protocol, is a protocol designed to manage and access associated information in a centralized, hierarchical file and directory structure. It operates like a relational database , but this does not hold true for everything. The … Read More

PowerCLI in the Cloud

Those who are active with PowerCLI sessions at VMWorld, you may still be having in your mind the mention of a vCloud snapin coming soon. It is going to be the first Powershell snapin that allows administration of your hybrid … Read More

Power combined: PowerCLI and OVFTool

Power combined: Combining two good things creates wonders. In this post I will show how to combine the automation abilities of PowerCLI with OVFTool. You first have to get some old knowledge. Open virtualization format was designed to be a … Read More

Import OVF/OVA: No datastore found on target in vCenter Server 5.1

Most of the time when you want to import your lab environment, most of the time we use folders to organize the datastores. But this is not the same when you want to import an OVF/OPVA template to one of … Read More

Getting Started with the Unofficial vCloud Powershell Functions

Due to high demand I did a little research and found this video on youtube which is a quick how-my vCloud Powershell functions, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wfLBWS0krc

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