What to do if the Windows 10 June 2017 update hangs on restart. Some people report seeing the progress go up to 28% or so before having issues. This is usually when the Windows reboot is taking forever. A long time has passed and you’re not even sure if it is still working or if…
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VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 u2 has been released!
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 u2 (update 2) New features include: High Ethernet Link Speed: ESXi 6.0 Update 2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds. VMware Host Client: The VMware Host Client is a HTML5 client that is used to connect to and manage single ESXi hosts without a vCenter Server. vSphere APIs…
Microsoft SQL now runs on Linux!
Scott Guthrie- Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft recently announced Microsoft SQL that runs on Linux. Microsoft SQL 2016, available later on this year, will be able to run on Linux as well as an Azure SQL cloud service. According to Microsoft, the benefits include: Groundbreaking security encryption capabilities that enable data to…
Don’t miss the VMware event Feb 9, 2016!
Be the first to hear the latest news about how VMware’s One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ architecture for IT is helping enable the digital enterprise from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud. This two-part online event will inspire, motivate, and deliver the elements you need to move your IT agenda forward…
VMware VSphere vCenter 6.0 Appliance Installation Adventures
It took a long while longer than expected to get back to doing a serious lab trial. We wiped everything and put evaluation versions of version 6 update 1. Here are some observations.
VMware vSphere Client 6 is very slow and hangs with Windows 10
Issue: VMware vSphere Client 6 takes a long time to open and hangs when trying to connect to the vCenter or directly to an ESXi host. Reported on Windows 10. Description: We encountered this problem after updating our machines to windows 10 and our lab server to vmware vSphere 6. The client installed but took…
Windows 10 breaks VMware workstation 11 and 12 bridge networking
I updated a lot of computers to Windows 10 recently as everyone else most likely has, and I ran into a bug which prevents vms running on VMware Workstation 11 (and previous versions) from using bridged networking (bridge connection) to the Network Interface Card (NIC). It turns out that Microsoft has seen fit to prevent…
Microsoft Windows 10 released! Useful shortcuts to know.
Even though the betas were rock solid for us, it appears a lot of people are reporting a rather generic message during downloading or installing of Windows 10. The message, as displayed here, is simply telling you that “Something Happened”. It certainly makes me long for the Basic days when a line number would appear…
Intel Skylake Core i7-6700k and i5-6600k Processors Rumored Specifications
CTOBOB doesn’t generally speculate on what is not released, but the information seems so plausible that we decided to point this out to all the rest of the Intel affectionados out there. rumored specifications of Intel 14nm Skylake roadmap CPUs 2015