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In Scott Herold`s blog I found a very interesting article: How to remove FT from host without vCenter? Yes, I know, that it`s almost an unbelievable situation, but…

Let’s have a quick look at password policy in ESX Server:
esxcfg-auth –usepamqc=N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 match
where N1 is minimal length of password, which consists only of 1 class symbols (abcdef….)
where N2 is minimal length of password, which consists of 1 class symbols or 2 class symbols (ABCdef…)
where N3 is minimal amount of letters in password
where N4 is [...]

Everything is really simple! I need only 30 seconds to show it!
esxcfg-auth [ [ --enablead | --disablead ] [ --addomain= | --removedomain= ] [--addc= | --removedc= ] ]
where addomain|removedomain is name of domain, and  addc|removedc is DNS or IP address of domain controller. After that you need to create a user, who will be able to [...]

Hi there! Just for beginning pros and cons of using VmWare Server instead of ESXi Server:
Pros:

Server doesn`t require compatible hardware, and can be installed on any Windows or Linux host
ESXi doesn`t allow pass-through of USB drives to VM
Server`s VMs can be copied easily to USB stick and moved to other host
Doesn`t require additional learning.

Cons:

Requires too [...]

Hi there! Today I would like to tell you how to simply backup your VMs to a remote tape device. Let`s say we have  the following configuration: 192.168.1.100 – Windows Server with tape device, 192.168.1.200 – ESX host, 192.168.1.201 and .202 – Windows based VMs. In this configuration we do not have to work with ESX at all. [...]

So, lets start. I`d like to start from the essentials: what possible kind of storage systems exist there, and what differences are between them, and, of course, I`ll talk about their advantages and disadvantages. I decided to offer not a detailed text description, but an image description of each technology.