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How to Setup an AD Integration with Nakivo Backup and Replication 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 21, 2017

Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 has introduced integration to the Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD). The vast majority of enterprise customers are using Microsoft AD for resource management, authentication so it’s only a logical step to benefit the integration between Nakivo Product and Microsoft AD. This post will teach you How to Setup an AD Integration […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How to Setup an AD Integration with Nakivo Backup and Replication 7

VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab

VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 20, 2017

VMware vSAN 6.6 2-Node disk claiming

VMware has officially released vSAN 6.6 so you can download your copy and evaluate the product. This post will detail our small lab configuration, which is a 2-Node vSAN cluster with a Witness running on the third host. For the purpose of this post, I have decommissioned my old environment running vSAN 6.5 (vMotioned VMs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN 6.6 Released

What is VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Local failure protection

VMware vSAN 6.6 which has been announced recently, further enhances stretched clusters configuration. The stretched clusters configuration has been part of vSAN since the 2015 release (v6.1). At that time, the stretched cluster configuration was released with fault domain architecture, where Witness is responsible for quorum and voting mechanism during cluster related failures. The Witness […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN, VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters

How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2017

Zerto Journal File Level Recovery - Select file or directory

Zerto’s technology for replicating VMs without snapshots was detailed quite a few times on our blog. Today, we’ll focus on How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto. Previously you could already recover a full site, application(s) or VMs, but the additional granularity giving you a possibility to recover files within the Zerto […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery, Zerto Journal

How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2017

Windows 10 Anniversary

As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

What is VMware vSAN Disk Group?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2017

Disk group and fault domain consideration

We continue to explore VMware technologies and teach some of the new terminologies that are relatively new for some, but quite old for others. When you think that 3 years ago only, VMware was rolling out vSAN 5.5 and now, they’re just announced the 6th iteration of their popular hyper-converged software solution – VMware vSAN […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vSAN Disk Group

VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 19, 2017

local and remote protection for stretched clusters

The release number of next release VMware vSAN is 6.6. A first thing to mention is that VMware vSAN is no longer tightened to major VMware vSphere releases, which means that starting vSAN 6.6 we will see the progress of vSAN independently on vSphere. VMware vSAN entered already its 6th iteration (correct me if I’m […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSAN 6.6

What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 10, 2017

VMware Hot-add RAM does not allow hot-reduce

VMware Hot-Add RAM feature isn’t new, but somehow we haven’t covered it much just yet. So this post will explain What is VMware Hot-Add RAM and How to use it. The Hot-Add RAM goes hand in hand with Hot-Add CPU, but we’ll cover that in a separate post. Using hot-add/hot-plug you can add memory resources to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Hot-Add RAM

StarWind Virtual SAN Free vs Paid New Offer for 2017

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2017

Starwind VirtualSAN Architecture

StarWind Virtual SAN introduced new offer which is interesting and it is a subject of today’s article. In this post, we will explore the possibilities, advantages (and disadvantages) of the free product which has very little limits compared to their previous Free offer. It can be a perfect fit for a hyper-v 2016 dual node […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

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