Virtual machine replication is a solution to maintain one or multiple virtual machine copies among 2 or more locations. This solution has multiple advantages – ensured availability in case of primary location failures such as network, electrical or in more severe cases data encryption. Replication can be done independently of…

In today’s world of technology, it is becoming more and more necessary and convenient to manage various processes from our phones and tablets. The vSphere Mobile Client allows system administrators to monitor the vSphere vCenter infrastructure directly from the mobile device. Several years ago, we looked at one of VMWare’s…

VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution. It offers a clustered shared storage solution by utilizing a set of local server drives by pooling them together, this allows saving on rack space and energy consumption. vSAN offers data deduplication and compression, multisite deployments, performance policies, and other VMware native tools,…

For both newer and older server generations, the manufacturer always recommends updating the server to improve the security level and the level of stability of the server. This can be accomplished by updating server component drivers, FW levels, and installing various security patches. HPE includes these updates in the Service…

HPE Smart array storage controllers are available with 2 types of caches – FBWC and Smart-Cache. FBWC is a controller-based DDR cache with a flash module that preserves unsaved data, meanwhile, Smart-Cache uses SSDs. FBWC Each HPE Performance RAID controller comes with a super-fast DDR module which acts as a…

Breakout rooms allow you to split a Microsoft Teams meeting into separate sessions for small group discussions and then combine these sessions to resume the large group meeting. The meeting organizer has the ability to group participants in these individual sessions automatically or manually and to join and move between…