How to manage vSphere efficiently

How to manage vSphere efficiently

If you are an IT administrator and you manage VMware vSphere virtualization platform, have a look at these useful tips:

-Don’t use Raw Device Mappings (RDMs). Try VMware Virtual Volumes instead, which is far less complex and more useful.

-See VMFS volumes and make sure they are upgraded.

-Use vSphere tags and categories. They help you organize virtual machines (VMs) in a customized way, considering elements not related to infrastructure. You can arrange them, for example, by production, development, off-site DR…

Active Directory tools for backup & restore

Active Directory tools for backup & restore

Active Directory (AD) is one of the most used features in Windows Server. It enables administrators to manage devices and users implementing and reinforcing security policies. It also provides a centralized and hierarchical directory to manage all network resources.

In this post we’re talking about tools and best practices to ease restore & backup processes in AD.

Tips to manage Hyper-V

Tips to manage Hyper-V

Are you a Hyper-V user? Don’t miss these useful tips by Virtualization Review:

-Use PowerShell to create a list of all your virtual machines(VM) including name and IP address without logging or going to networking tab.

-Enable router guard and DHCP guard options to avoid unauthorized networking accesses. You can do it using VM libraries, PowerShell or Set-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet.

VDI clients: What is the long-term best option?

VDI clients: What is the long-term best option?

Choosing a VDI client is not an easy task since there are several options with slight differences.

Physical desktops, thin clients and HTML5 browsers are good options for VDI deployments, but most companies always look for the best value for money. In this case, HTML5 browsers can be considered an interesting alternative.

How to boost Linux performance

How to boost Linux performance

Would you like to improve the performace of your GNU Linux distro? Thanks to its flexibility we can maximize it. There are a lot of ways to do it, such as using Swappines configurations, removing unnecesary kernel modules, setting up the kernel more cleanly…

One of these options is Cache Pressure, which enables maximizing RAM memory to change the way the kernel introduces data blocks in the core memory. Making a few changes, our device’s performance will be improved in every respect: when you run programs, play or any multimedia content…

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