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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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup for Office 365

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

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