by Tom Fenton | Feb 10, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, VMware
The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to use it. This article details that experience and my thoughts on it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 4, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review
In a previous article, I discussed how I used an inexpensive ($25) video capture card to capture HDMI output from a physical system. Unfortunatly the screen captures from that system were fuzzy. In this article I used a different device and was able to capture far...
by Tom Fenton | Feb 1, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review
If you ever have tried to capture screen caps during installs when you don’t have the ability to do screen caps you might want to try using an inexpensive HDMI to USB Capture Card. Mine was ~$20 and did a OK job. In another review I found one that did a better...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 29, 2021 | VMware
The other day I needed to download my script to automount a USB drive on a ESXi server from my GitHub repository. To do this I opened the Http Client port for the ESXi server and then executed wget...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 27, 2021 | Dell, HCI, Review, Storage, StorageReview.com, VMware
In this article I look at Dell new line of midrange storage devices PowerStore. This line should help them consolidate their existing storage lines (Unity XT, Compellent , XtremIO, and EqualLogic ) under a single platform. Read the full article...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 14, 2021 | dHCI, HCI, HPE, VMware, vVols
In this article I look at HPE’s implementation of disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). dHCI is like to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as it allows the management of compute and storage from a single management plane: vCenter Server, but dHCI...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 14, 2021 | ControlUp, Horizon, virtualization and cloud review, VMware, Win10
In this article I upgrade my environment from Horizon 2006 to Horizon 2012 and go over the features in it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: What’s New in Horizon 8 Version 2012 Hands on with VMware Horizon 8 (2006)...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 12, 2021 | ControlUp, virtualization and cloud review, Win10
In this article I show you how to set up a RDSH server, integrate it with VMware Horizon and how to deploy applications from it. I also give you a peek at how you can monitor published applications using ControlUp. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 10, 2021 | dHCI, HCI, VMware
Over the winter holidays I got a chance to look at StarWind’ video surveillance HCI appliances. StarWind did a good job of making the recording and playing back of video easy enough to deploy on the edge as well as in data centers Read the full article...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 10, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, Win10
In this article I rank MS PowerToys. PowerToys are not really toys but more of productivity tools that allow you to do things like organize your Windows 10 desktop, do bulk renaming of files and resizing of photos. The beta version of PowerToys lets you mute the...