New Microsoft Teams feature – Breakout Rooms

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…

Project Honolulu is now Windows Admin Center

Some time ago we took a brief look of Microsoft Honolulu. Its purpose was to consolidate all Windows server management tools into a web-based utility to eliminate all the necessary tools to manage Windows Server. Since then Microsoft has done a great job updating and expanding the functionality of this…

vSphere mobile client

VMWare has launched its alpha version for vSphere mobile client. Using the mobile application, which is currently only available for Android you can manage and monitor your virtual environment. For now, you can power on and off your virtual machines and look at historical and real-time performance metrics. To install…

Brief introduction to Failover Cluster

Let’s have a brief look at Windows Failover, HyperV and Site Aware clusters and their failover process. A bit of what should be taken into the account and some of the best practices. Operating principle The cluster itself works from server nodes – hosts, that run services and VMs. These…

Tips for VMWare vSphere upgrade

VMware on April of this year released an update version 6.7 to their virtualization solutions including ESXi and vCSA. Some of the major improvements included: ESXi quick boot, which essentially allows to reboot ESXi without rebooting the server itself, saving time on hardware initialization; TPM 2.0 support; Backup scheduler that…