VMware Security Patches Released
Hot off the press are a few security patches for a variety of VMware products. Advisories include the products ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and vCloud Director. As always with security updates, read the release notes, assess your risk, deploy the patches in a lab, test, then gently roll out to production. The...
Nakivo Version 8.1 is Now Available
Nakivo just released version 8.1 of their Backup and Replication Suite. Nakivo supports VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2. What's new in this 'dot' release? Policy based Data Protection NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.1 revolutionizes the way companies manage their backup operations by introducing Policy-Based Data Protection. Set up policies for...
Top vBlog 2018 Voting is now Live!
For a number of years Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land has been sponsoring the top vBlogger voting contest. This is where you, the reader, can get behind your favorite bloggers and help them rank! Last year was a record year with over 1,600 votes. And as usual, the great sponsor...
Apple Series 4 Watch and related apps and gadgets
This blog post is a bit of a departure from my normal enterprise tech topics. Recently I've been on a 'refresh' cycle for many of my day-to-day gadgets and Apple mobile apps. So I thought I'd share my findings, as I put a lot of time into finding what I...
Top WordPress Plugins You Should Use Pt. 1
I've been running a WordPress blog for over 4 years, and recently started a 'back end' plugin refresh cycle. I'm also working on new WordPress site for my photography outlet, and did a lot of research into the best-of WordPress plugins. Most of the plugins I'll cover are fairly generic...
Windows 10 Credential Guard and VMware Workstation 14
Microsoft has been very busy adding new security features to Windows 10. It seems that each release gets something new, or existing features are enhanced. For enterprises, one of the great new-ish features is Windows Defender Credential Guard. What is Credential Guard? It uses VBS (virtualization based security) to help...
CleanTalk anti-spam WordPress Plug-in Review
I've been running this blog for a number of years (since 2009), and one thing that really irks me is the amount of spam comments my blog gets. I use comment moderation (sorry for sometimes being way behind in moderation, BTW), so my blog isn't full of spammy comments. Spammy...
Perl.exe 0xc0000142 Failure Solution
The other day I was trying to use Jeffrey's "Metadata Wrangler" for Lightroom plugin. However, it was failing with a perl.exe 0xc0000142 error. I had just updated my computer to Windows 10 Fall Creator's update (1709), so it crossed my mind maybe that was the cause. I had also increased...
VMworld 2017: vSphere 6.5 Upgrade Customer Perspective
Session: SER2508BU Note: The session slides have a lot more details, KB links, etc. so grab the slides if want more details. High Level Plan -Enablement -Workshop -Test Environment -Design -Migration Enablement -Product landing page and KBs -Product documentation -Whitepapers like what's new? -Check the readme for bugs/issues -Check blogs...