About Vladan SEGET

This blog is maintained by Vladan SEGET. Vladan is as an Independent consultant, professional blogger, vExpert 2009 - 2014, VCAP5-DCA/DCD, VCP 4/5. ESX Virtualization site has started as a simple bookmarking site, but quickly found a large following of readers and subscribers.

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3CX Phone System Review

January 27, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

3CX Phone system is a software based IP PBX which replaces the traditional hardware PBX. The solution is based on a Windows server which can be virtualized with VMware. VMware vSphere 5.x and above is a supported virtualization platform, but you can also use Hyper-V. The server part collaborates with clients which can be either software based phones […]

vSphere Client In Different Language [How-to]

January 26, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

It’s possible to execute the vSphere client in different language. vSphere Windows client (C#) and also vSphere Web client. Without re-installing of course. The steps are fairly simple but I wanted to document for myself, and thought that it might also be usefull for others. The use case for this? I can’t tell for languages […]

Rackware Management Module – RMM. How it works?

January 23, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

Rackware is a relatively new software company founded in 2009 which I discovered recently. They also took a place as a sponsor on our website. Check out Rackware website for further info if DR is your interest. They provide software system called Rackware Management Module – RMM which can be used as DR scenario from […]

Windows 10 Free for W7 and W8.1 Users

January 22, 2015 by Vladan SEGET 3 Comments

Yesterday’s Microsoft uncovered new information about upcoming Windows 10 features. One of the good news is that Windows 10 will be free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users. This is pretty big. They give away new OS – a revolution! In addition, it seems that there will be no more new Windows as […]

How To Disable Lock Screen in Windows

January 20, 2015 by Vladan SEGET 4 Comments

You might be working towards your VCP or VCAP exam in your lab and often in the Windows VMs the lock screen is in the middle asking you to CTRL + Del + Enter AND the also to type the domain admin password. In Windows based OSs like Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 It’s […]

How to Understand VMware Acceptance Levels for Hosts and VIBs

January 19, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

VMware Acceptance Levels are two sorts. Acceptance levels for VIBs and acceptance levels for hosts. The VIB acceptance levels can’t be changed but the host’s acceptance levels can. As an example for installing custom VIB in you homelab environment you need to change the host acceptance level otherwise the VIB won’t installs. How to understand VMware […]

Free DataCenter Stencils to Download – By VMTurbo

January 16, 2015 by Vladan SEGET 1 Comment

If you like to have a datacenter stencils when doing some designing work you might want to check out those one from VMturbo. They provide it as a free download (registration is required). Those stencils can be used in Viso or Omnigrafle and they provide details about hosts, clusters, virtual and physical SAN, thin or […]

VMTN Is Back – 365 Days Evaluation Licenses For 9 VMware Products Through VMUG Advantage

January 15, 2015 by Vladan SEGET 4 Comments

A great news which just came out through Twitter with a speed of light. VMware is announcing a 365 Evaluation licenses for selected VMware products. It’s a great news for IT pros which runs VMware labs at home for learning VMware technology! It’s been some time since VMware was listening…. since 2011! But now it’s a reality. The […]

DISM GUI 4.0 Utility – Free tool to manage WIM images

January 15, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

In case you want to add/remove drivers from *.WIM images, there is a graphical interface for the DISM command line utility written in the .NET. It’s called a DISM GUI 4.0 utility and allows you to mount and dismount WIMs, manage drivers, features and packages. Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool included […]

CloudByte ElastiStor Community Edition is out – Up to 25 TB Free for life

January 14, 2015 by Vladan SEGET Leave a Comment

There is a new Community edition or ElastiStor available from CloudByte. This version announces up to 25Tb free storage for ever. ElastiStor lets you custom-build storage infrastructure based on your requirements, with support for SATA, SAS, and SSD hardware as well as NFS, CIFS, FC, and iSCSI protocols. ElastiStor OS is built using FreeBSD 9 […]