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HP ZBook Studio – A new (Real) competitor of Mac Book Pro?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

HP ZBook Studio

Today’s announce of HP for their new ZBook Studio took my attention. Why? Because my old Samsung NP900x3A Ultrabook is getting old… the resolution isn’t what I’d expect now, my GoPro videos are kind of sluggish to edit. So I’m in a process of researching a new laptop gear which is not only portable (up to 2 […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Home Lab Tagged With: HP ZBook Studio

This VM will Expire after 7 days – VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

How to protect a VM with expiry date

One of the cool features of VMware Workstation is protecting VMs. This can be a VM which has limited lifetime. You can use those VMs for example for student’s class or hand it to prospects or customers without worrying that they’ll continue using those VMs after certain period. The use cases are multiple as you can […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: Protect VMs, Time Expiration VM, VMware Workstation

How-to Set an ESXi Scratch Partition from the vSphere Web Client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

Instalable versions of ESXi has a scratch partition created during the installation process. It’s a 4GB VFAT scratch partition which is created during the autoconfiguratio phase. What’s scratch partition used for? It’s used for vm-support files (when you creating a support bundle). If a scratch partition is not set up, you might want to configure […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: ESXi scratch partition

VMware VSAN Stretched Cluster Performance and Best Practices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware VSAN Stretched Cluster Performance and Best Practices

There is new PDF from VMware detailing best practices for VMware VSAN. The title says it all – VMware VSAN Stretched Cluster Performance and Best Practices. It does targets the latest VMware VSAN 6.1  where stretched cluster feature was introduced. A possibility to have a full site (with VSAN) failure. You’ll see some detailed tests which looks […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

How-to Protect Your Blog from Brute Force Attacks

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2022

If you’re one of our readers who has also a blog, then you might be interested in following tip allowing you to be safer. It happened to my server few months back and the folks at Hostcolor did alert me about my high CPU utilization and they did add a second layer of security for me. It’s […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How-to Protect Your Blog from Brute Force Attacks

Onyx for vSphere Web Client – Automate creation of PowerShell Scripts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 4, 2015

Onyx for vSphere Web Client

A very long time ago I wrote about Onyx for vSphere. At that time there wasn’t any vSphere web client, but the magic to see Onyx in action was impressive. First thing you might ask if you’re not old school or if just starting with VMware virtualization technologies is What is Onyx? It’s simple. Onyx […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

How to Install Photon OS In VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

How to Install VMware Photon OS in vSphere

VMware Photon is a new project started this year within VMware, which shall allow faster deployment of containerized applications from developer’s desktops (Workstation, Fusion) to the production environment (vSphere). It is a minimalist Linux distribution allowing to install container runtime environment which is able to run those “containerized apps”, those apps that are pre-packaged and pre-configured […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How to Install Photon OS, How to Install Photon OS In VMware vSphere

How To Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client v3

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Newly released ESXi host client v3 (already) has been up for few weeks. I’ve been quite busy visiting VMworld Barcelona and VeeamON recently. However I’m back home, at Reunion, and can fully work as usually. Homelabbing, blogging and providing IT services to few clients localy here where I live. Today we will focus on quick […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client, ESXi Host Client

Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 20, 2016

Scaleout backup repository Veeam v9

Veeam is introducing another new feature called Scale-Out Backup repository. A global single pool which contains all your existing backup repositories. This feature will be is present in Veeam Availability Suite v9. Check out my latest post Veeam Backup and Replication 9 Released! How does it work? In fact, you’ll be able to gather all your existing […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: ScaleOut Backup Repository

Veeam Endpoint Backup for Linux as well as Backup Portal for Service Providers Announced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 28, 2015

Veeam Endpoint Backup for Linux

Veeam has announced new free backup product for physical servers, this time Veeam Endpoint Backup for Linux. At first, Debian and RedHat distributions will be supported, where other distributions are on the roadmap as well. Why would someone need to backup Linux host? Well, in fact the product can backup not only physical Linux host, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Veeam Endpoint Backup for Linux

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