Last Christmas Santa Claus was very generous for me! I found all the stuff to build a powerful home lab under the Christmas tree. I decided to share my home lab experience as I’ve learned the hard way how to choose, finance and set up such an environment. At VMware, we have plenty of options … Continue reading Yet another Home Lab story →

My recent engagements with customers from the finance verticals unveiled some specific common requirement when it comes to desktop virtualization projects for their branches. A lot of banks still run core banking software using LU (Logical Units) terminal interfaces on Windows to communicate with Mainframe's SNA network through Microsoft Host Integration Server.  Virtualizing endpoints running … Continue reading Still got Mainframe? Virtual Desktops in an SNA networks. →

vSphere Hypervisor supports on-board network adapters and those added with PCI/PCIe expansion slots only. There is no support for network adapters connected with USB which might be problematic in some test/dev/home lab use cases. Recently a Fling was released that adds drivers to the ESXi for three most popular network adapters on usb: ASIX USB … Continue reading USB Network Adapters with ESXi →

...one Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Brand new report on the state of Unified Endpoint Management solutions was released by Gartner last week. I thought it is a good moment to brag a little as VMware was named an absolute leader (for the 8th … Continue reading One Ring to rule them all… →