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How to remove Exchange Server from your Domain

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

Today’s post will show how to remove Exchange server from your domain. I’m simulating it on my lab environment where I’m running single Microsoft Exchange 2013 server. For organizations moving to Office 365, the best way to seamlessly migrate, is to go hybrid. First you move all mailboxes and then you decomission your Exchange server. […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How to remove Exchange Server

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.1 – Describe and differentiate between component functions and features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

Horizon View Agent sub-components

VCP6-DTM Study Guide will be a new project that will take shape in following weeks on ESX Virtualization. Mobility is something that’s going fast, very fast and it’s everywhere. Folks studying towards the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility Exam will find those series of posts and the VCP6-DTM Study Guide Page helpful, I […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 1.1, VCP6-DTM study guide

VMware Photon Platform and Photon Controller Details Unveiled

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Photon Platform Architecture

VMware Photon platform and Photon controller are part of a new technology coming from VMware. I have already tested the PhotonOS VM installation in the lab, but this is just one part of the puzzle. The other parts are the Photon Controller, which is going to be Open Source, and the Photon Machine (a stripped down […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Photon platform

PassMark OSFMount – Free utility to create RAM Disk or mount images as local disks

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

OSF Mount freeware to create RAM disk

I stumbled through this utility called OSFMount, which is Free utility to create RAM Disk. It can also mount images as local disks. This free utility isn’t new, but it’s first time I’m testing it. The interest and curiosity had me download this software and quickly create 32Gb RAM Disk on my destkop workstation which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Free utility to create RAM Disk

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

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