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Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1 Released – Brings automation and orchestration capabilities

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 24, 2014

Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1 has been released yesterday. Nakivo Backup and Replication is pushing another update to their product, this time adding some automation and orchestration capabilities. Those capabilities are based on new HTTP API available for the users. Also new the possibility to add datastore cluster as a replication target or VM recovery. Another […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1

How-to Reset Windows Domain Administrator Password

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 23, 2014

What to do when you inherit an environment after previous admin left the company without leaving the domain admin password? How-to Reset the Windows Domain Administrator Password? Is there a easy way to do it? That was questions which I tried to quickly resolve and I thought that most of you might get interested as […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: How-to Reset Windows Domain Administrator Password

ESXi Unresponsive VM – How to Power Off

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 3, 2015

How to kill unresponsive VM in VMware ESXi 5

Sometimes your VM gets stuck and you have no possibility to do graceful shutdown or power off through the vSphere client. Saying it differently, the VM is stuck and the only way is to reboot the whole ESXi host, which you certainly don’t want to do. But the unresponsive VM running there can be “killed” […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: ESXi 5 kill unresponsive VM, Kill unresponsive VM, SSH ESXi

AutoAdministrator – Free Utility Which Can Automate without Scripting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Destined for IT administrators working with Windows based server systems, AutoAdministrator is a Free Utility Which Can Automate without Scripting. It allows to automate quite a few tasks through the program. The latest version is 2.4, but the product has been here for a while and now it’s completely free. Previously $69 (or $49 through some discount sites). […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: AutoAdministrator, Free utility for AutoAdministration

Lab Time – 64Gb RAM Box With Hexa Core CPU

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 7, 2015

Gigabyte mobo with 64Gb DDR3 and 4930K Intel i7 CPU

Since several years of my IT career every time I decide to expand my lab is to build a new ESXi host or a box which does shared storage for my lab. So it means that I was always left with my laptop to do all the other work. The Samsung laptop I use is […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 64Gb RAM Box With Hexacore CPU

Good Read – VSAN Sizing Guide For Horizon View VDI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 18, 2014

As always after a new technology release there are some good papers from VMware which slowly make their apparition. Few days back I reported about a paper discussing resynchronization and rebalance operations in VSAN cluster. Today the latest and newest technology from VMware is certainly Hot – VMware VSAN. New paper is available which is a VSAN […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VSAN Sizing Guide for Horizon View VDI

VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

There is a new VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training available online. The training is 90 min long and gives you a good start for getting your hands on VMware Log Insight product which has been recently updated. The Log Insight 2.0 has been detailed with all its features in my post here. The LogInsight […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals Free Training

How-to use Veeam Backup NFS used for storing ISOs in your VMware vSphere Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

If you’re using only block storage in your organization and NFS isn’t your your choice, you might possibly store your Installation ISOs and other files on one of your iSCSI datastore. This always works, but it’s certainly cheaper to store such a files on other than high-end 15000 SAS disks placed in probably very expensive SAN which […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to use Veeam Backup NFS used for storing ISOs

Quick way to recover POP e-mail passwords with Mail Password Decryptor

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

As an IT consultant there is often a situation where you need to recover POP password for a user who forgot it. Users are often having several POP e-mail accounts configured, whether is for work or not. And it’s usually not your responsibility if they are allowed or not. There is a quick way to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Mail Password Decryptor

New Book – Essential Virtual SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 14, 2014

Cormac Hogan (@cormacjhogan) and Duncan Epping (@duncanyb) are the authors of new book which has been released recently. Ben Fathi (CTO of VMware) and Charles Fan (SVP of VMware R&D) did wrote a foreword. By reading the foreword I learned that VSAN as a product was practically ready in June 2013, to be part of the […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Essential Virtual SAN

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