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What is The Difference between VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 8, 2025

VMware vSphere Infrastructure

This post is not a deep dive, and it’s not even much technical. We’ll focus on VMware terminology. It’ is just a quick post for folks unsure about the differences between the base VMware products. Almost anyone knows ESXi, but the difference between vSphere and vCenter? People are often confused and unsure, but those answers […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Difference between VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter

What is VMware vMotion?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2017

Active - Standby config of multi-nic vmotion

What is VMware vMotion? It is THE feature, the function, which “hooked” thousands of millions IT guys on the plane for using VMware for their IT infrastructure. It is kind of a holy grail of virtualization where a running VM moves to another host without interruption of service (of with just a few pings lost). I still […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vMotion

Starwind Web Management Console and vSphere Plugin

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 28, 2017

Over the past several months Starwind was working on web-based management console for their flagship product Starwind Virtual SAN and also on vSphere plugin allowing to manage the whole storage solution from within vSphere Web Client. So in today’s post, we’ll report on those two management products from Starwind. Note that they’re also working on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind vSphere Web Client Plugin, Starwind Web Management Console

How To Reset ESXi Root Password via Microsoft AD

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2019

How to reset ESXi root password via Microsoft AD

When you’re in front of a host where the ESXi root password has been lost, how to reset an ESXi root password might be the first question you’re asking, right? A while back we have posted a way of doing it via VMware Host profiles. But not everyone has Enterprise Plus licensing which includes host […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Videos

Three Simple Steps to Install 3CX Debian Appliance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

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We have announced the 3CX Debian Appliance a while ago, the product entered into its final stage and is GA now. We have also detailed the steps for creating an USB key with the Installer for MiniPC. In this post, we’ll show the steps required to deploy and configure the product. Update 5 of 3CX for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Cool Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

SoftEther VPN manager with all options

There is a Cool Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN. The product consists of several modules (server, client, bridge) and is available for Windows (including ARM machines), Linux and MacOS, or Android/iPAD. Thanks to Joshua Stenhouse who told me that he’s using this product it in his lab. I’m usually not a much into a VPN […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN

Efficient Backup Data Management using VembuHIVE file system in BDR Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 8, 2017

Vembu Virtual Drive

Our readers might hear in the past about Vembu BDR Suite. We have published few blog posts and also reviewed the product a while back. In this post, we will focus a little bit more on efficient Backup Data Management using VembuHIVE file system in BDR server. Vembu’s file system called Vembu HIVE, which exposes every […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VembuHIVE file system

Top 5 Backup Software For Hyper-V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2020

Top5 Backup Software

Welcome to ESX Virtualization blog. This post will try to talk about backup products supporting Microsoft Hyper-V virtual infrastructures. Basically, we will list Top 5 Backup Software For Hyper-V whether they’re already supported or there will be in the upcoming release. The news is coming too fast and to keep in touch with each backup […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Top 5 Backup Software For Hyper-V

How to reset Single Sign-On (SSO) password in vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 1, 2017

Temp password to use for reset

As you might notice, VMware vSphere has now Platform service controller (PSC) with a Single Sign-On (SSO) as a component. It is PSC which allows authentication via vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO). It is not only an authentication broker but also a security token exchange providing a more secure way of accessing your vSphere solutions, so in […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: How to reset Single Sign-On (SSO) password in vSphere

TeraCopy 3.0 release – A popular file transfer utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

TeraCopy 3 Released

TeraCopy 3.0 – A popular file transfer utility has been released a few days ago bringing better UI, faster copy speed, and easier usage. The product brought some significant improvements from the past releases and introduces also new file replace dialog, copy with elevated Windows Service and VSS or support for an unlimited number of files. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Teracopy 3.0

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