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You Are Number Six – Top vBlog 2016 Results!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Top vBlog 2016 Coins

Few days back you could watch live a Top vBlog 2016 results organized by Eric Siebert from vSphere-land.com. The full results are here. This vBlog popularity contest become an every year event. No suprises again this year, Duncan has the blog with the most popularity, tightly followed by William Lam. My results are a nice […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: TOP vBlog 2016

VMware ESXi Command List – Maintenance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 1, 2016

VMware ESXi commands - Maintenance mode

Today another post of the series ESXi Command List. The title says it all. We’ll have a look at different options to reboot ESXi from a command line and we’ll talk a bit about maintenance mode. You should always put hosts into maintenance mode when you do reboots, firmware updates, apply ESXi updates (most patches require the […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware ESXi Command List - Maintenance

How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago controller card on VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

How to install SMIS provider from Avago

If you happen to have ESXi running on a hardware with LSI/Avago storage controller/Raid card, you may (or not) have troubles to see the hardware health status. I haven’t particularly paid attention to this when setting up my lab. The hardware I’m using (the LSI SAS 3008) is on VMware HCL but there wasn’t any […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: Avago SMIS provider, VMWare ESXi

How To Enable Sparse Swap on VSAN [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 29, 2016

VMware Sparse Swap - How to Enable

As you know VM Swap file only exists when VM is running. Powered On. I’m currently testing an AF VSAN cluster in the lab with 2 hosts + Witness, where the witness is running on a third host (kind of Remote office scenario), and one of the things that allow saving, even more, space on your […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Sparse Swap on VSAN

VCP6-CMA Study Guide Objective 1.3 – Configure and Administer vCloud Connector

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

VMware vCloud Connector

Another topic towards VCP6-CMA Exam – Objective 1.3 – Configure and Administer vCloud Connector. The exam – 2V0-631 – is 100 min long and has 85 questions. The passing score is 300. Check further updates and details on VMware Certification page. What is vCloud Connector? It is a component running within vCD infrastructure which transfers workloads […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-CMA Study Guide Objective 1.3 - Configure and Administer vCloud Connector

Remote Utilities – Manage Systems Remotely over WAN/LAN environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 27, 2016

Remote Utilities - The different connection possibilities

Many tools exist for remote access. Some of them are better than others, some of them are more expensive than others. Some shops are using Teamviewer or Anydesk, but some admins might just stick with traditional VNC, Tight VNC or other free tools. Today we’ll have a look at Remote utilities which might fit small […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Remote Utilities

Upcoming 3CX Phone System v15 with NGIX instead of IIS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 23, 2016

3CX Phone System Launch v15 Live

3CX phone system v15 is in preparation (currently Beta) and there are quite major architectural changes and new features in preparation. The Upcoming 3CX Phone System v15 will have an NGIX web server (instead of IIS) and it will have a completely new management console. The list of changes is long as the company has been […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Windows Server 2016 – How to configure data deduplication

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Windows Server 2016 - Deduplication with multi-threaded jobs

Windows Server 2016 will also have a new deduplication engine. In this post, we will have a look on how to setup data deduplication in Windows Server 2016 and also what’s changes compared to 2012 R2. While 2012R2 the recommended size of volumes suitable for deduplication were limited to 10 Tb, with the upcoming Windows […]

| Filed Under: Windows Server 2016

Veeam Agent for Linux – Image level backup for Linux [BETA]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 22, 2016

Veeam Endpoint Backup for Linux

Veeam releasing another free product for IT administrators. This time, it is a product which will interests IT admins managing Linux systems as the new product’s name is Veeam Agent for Linux. (Beta). I previously reported on this as Veeam Endpoint for Linux but the name is Veeam Agent for Linux. The product has minimalistic […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Linux

VMturbo Operations Manager Review [Sponsored]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 6, 2017

Deployment of VMturbo

Readers of this blog know VMturbo quite well. It’s been several years that this startup company expanding very fast. VMturbo Operations Manager is regularly updated, packed with new features and having the possibility to be installed not only on VMware or Hyper-V but also on Citrix, Redhat, Openstack or Nutanix. You could check one of the latest […]

| Filed Under: Reviews, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMturbo Operations Manager Review

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