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Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 20, 2017

Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

This is a quick tip to Increase Startup Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM. We will show you that it can be done different ways as we have multiple tools from VMware for managing their virtual infrastructure. A very easy tip everyone knows already, for this Friday. Check our Tips or How-to categories for other […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips Tagged With: Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

Top 5 Backup Features for VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructures

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 19, 2017

Backup Copy Job

In this post, we’ll explore and think of few things when it comes to backup software, their features. What are the main benefits or features you can’t live without, or what are Top 5 Backup Features for VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructures? There is a number of choices of backup software. Backup software for VMware is historical, one […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Top 5 Backup Features for VMware and Hyper-V

VMware Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Explained

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 18, 2017

VMware Transparent Page Sharing

This post is another addition to our Tips category. Today we’ll tackle another VMware vSphere Memory Management topic called VMware Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). VMware ESXi hypervisor is capable of tracking identical memory pages within VMs with the same OS. ESXi assigns a hash value to pages and compares them in details, bit by bit. […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: VMware Transparent Page Sharing

What is VMware Memory Ballooning?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 18, 2017

VMware Memory Ballooning

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today’s post. We’ll put it again in our Tips Category. You might already pass your VCP exam and (or) you might know this topic well. We can understand that. This topic […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Memory Ballooning

Free Cisco CCNA Lab Guide PDF from Neil Anderson

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 24, 2017

Free Cisco CCNA Lab Guide

Neil Anderson is a fellow blogger and our readers know him for his Free How-To Guide To Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab. Today he contacted me about another project which he just finished, and it is also useful for a virtualization admins. This time he is focusing on networking, and especially on Cisco […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Cisco CCNA Lab Guide PDF

What is VMware vSphere Update Manager?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 3, 2019

VMware vSphere Update Manager - Create a baseline

Today’s topic is another good one which covers VMware technology, and particularly the patching and upgrades. We’ll learn What is VMware vSphere Update Manager and some basic principles to use this free tool, which is part of vCenter. As you know, patching and upgrades are not always the most favorite occupation of any VMware admin. Things […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vSphere Update Manager

What is VMware VMFS Locking Mechanism?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 25, 2017

Shared VMFS Datastore lab

Today we’ll learn What is VMware VMFS Locking Mechanism. It is another post within our Tips category, so if you know your way, just skip. New people coming to learn VMware technology usually need this information to understand how VMFS locking works within the shared storage environment. And it is especially for those people that we’re […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: What is VMware VMFS Locking Mechanism

LPAR2RRD – Free Monitoring Software Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

Lpar2rrd main dashboard

Today we write about another Czech company called Xorux and their Free performance monitoring software for VMware and IBM Power Systems. Their product’s name is LPAR2RRD. The same virtual appliance for VMware has a second product built-in called STOR2RRD which does performance monitoring for enterprise storage systems of almost all vendors They do not sell the product […]

| Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: LPAR2RRD Free Monitoring Software

VMware Horizon View 7.3.1 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Horizon View Instant Clones technology

A few days back VMware has released their flagship product for VDI – VMware Horizon View 7.3. The latest release brought some improvements and new features such as dedicated instant-clone desktop pools (previously only non-persistent desktop pools could be created via instant-clones). Also, instant-clones can use Windows Server OS Let’s recap a little bit what’s […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Horizon View 7.3.1

Veeam Backup for Office 365 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 5, 2017

One Click Restore Veeam Backup for Office 365

Finally, Veeam has released Veeam Backup for Office 365 yesterday. After a long time being in beta (and 1.0), we can see this product going GA, in it’s version 1.5. While many users are still running Exchange On-Premises, organizations with hybrid deployments and full cloud deployments are able to use this product for backing up and […]

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