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VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Disabling Unnecessary Virtual Hardware Devices

This post will try to outline some performance optimization tips for virtual hardware within VMware infrastructure. Performance is one of the topics which is crucial. How far can you go to optimize each and every VM within your infrastructure? There are few guidelines from VMware, we’ll focus on optimization of Virtual machine hardware, the VM’s […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

Microsoft Windows Server Management Challenges – Project Honolulu

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 16, 2018

Web based server management - Project Honolulu

It seems that Microsoft hasn’t said their last word concerning GUI management for Microsoft Server systems. In this post we will discuss the new Project Honolulu but get back to Nano Server which seems to be dying fast. In fact, after trying to develop Nano server for some time, a very lightweight server node, recent […]

| Filed Under: Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Microsoft Windows Server Management

What is VMware vSphere HA Admission Control?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 2, 2017

vSphere HA Admission control Disabled

Today’s post will explain What is VMware vSphere HA Admission Control. This is another article within our Tips category. If you’re experienced VMware admin, you’ll probably know your way, but this post is destined for folks willing to know the basics and more about Admission control which was redesigned in vSphere 6.5. The first thing to […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vSphere HA Admission Control

Remote Desktop Services For IT Administrators – New Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

A fellow Spanish blogger Xavier Genestos, which I already encouraged my audience last year to check one of his other books about Windows 2016 Server. Xavier just published another book. This time it is about Remote Desktop Services within Windows Server 2016. The book’s name: Remote Desktop Services for IT Administrators. Xavier is an experienced writer […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Remote Desktop Services For IT Administrators

VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware vSphere DRS

In this post, we will go into details between VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus license. We have already touched a little bit on VMware licensing questions and covered VMware vCenter Standard vs Essentials. But vCenter server and ESXi are different products, with different licensing options. Both software products are part of the VMware vSphere suite. Each […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus, vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus

VMware Workstation 14 And VMware Fusion 10 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

Today, after few months of Tech preview, VMware is releasing their flagship products for desktop virtualization – VMware Workstation 14 And VMware Fusion 10. Note that part of the release is also VMware Player, which is free (and paid also). VMware Workstation 2017 tech preview runs on my desktop since its release and I like it. […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Fusion 10, VMware Workstation 14

What is VMware Instant Clone Technology?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

VMware Horizon View 7 - Instant Clones

Today’s quick tip will talk about clones, cloning, but not traditional way, slow, slow, slow. We will expose What is VMware Instant Clone Technology and how that works in today’s modern data centers. Instant clone technology has been announced as project Fargo back during VMworld 2014 and first production systems started using it within Horizon View […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Instant Clone Technology

VMware Network Adapter Types

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 25, 2017

VMware virtual machines (VM) can be configured with different network adapter types. Depending on the system you’re running, its version, those adapter types may vary. In this post, I’ll try to explain which type adapter exists. There are some exotic and older virtual network adapters, such as Vlance, or Flexible, but most of the time […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Network Adapter Types

What Are VMware Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters (vPMCs)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2017

This kind of strange name is simple to explain, but some people might not know about it. Hence this post. In this post, we will talk about What Are VMware Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters (vPMCs). This feature can be enabled on a per-VM basis (by editing a virtual hardware of a VM) and allows the […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: VMware Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters

VMware vCenter Server Standard vs Foundation – Differences

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 30, 2022

VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup Simple Configuration

A few months back VMware has changed a little bit the VMware vCenter Foundation offer allowing to have 4 ESXi hosts instead of just 3 previously. This is mainly because customers wanted to run VMware vSAN with 4 hosts with this edition. This post will go into the differences between VMware vCenter Server Standard vs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vCenter Server Standard vs Foundation

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