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Microsoft DiskSpd – Freeware to test speed of your storage system

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

DiskSpd, PowerShell and storage performance: measuring IOPs, throughput and latency for both local disks and SMB file shares

DiskSpd is new tool from Microsoft which allows testing the speed of your storage. You can test different storage like DAS, SAN, NAS ….. or SMB share. You can also install it in a VM and test the speed of a VM. Quote: A feature-rich and versatile storage testing tool, Diskspd (version 2.0.12) combines robust […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Microsoft DiskSpd

ESXi Free Version – 3 Ways to Clone a VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2019

When you have an ESXi standalone hypervisor running in a lab or test environment, it’s not possible (simple way) to clone a VM. If the host is managed by vCenter server, than it’s a simple right click > clone VM. But in situations where vCenter server is not available, what’s your options? The ESXi Free Version is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXi Free Version, How to clone a VM in ESXi Free

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide – Get Your Copy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide

VMware App Volumes (previously Cloud Volumes) are generally available from VMware. The product has now been integrated and can be I had the chance to see the live demo during this year’s VMworld and also recorded a video from the presentation. It’s pretty impressive to see almost unlimited number of applications being delivered to a […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware App Volumes

VMware Log Insight 2.5 – vRealize Log Insight, upgrade and PAK management walkthrough

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

VMware released Log Insight 2.5 product, which name is now vRealize Log Insight 2.5. In case you were running version 2.0 previously you can upgrade with a .PAK file and in this post I’ll show you the process and also how easy it is to update or install new content pak from within the UI. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vRealize Log Insight 2.5

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Download Available Including Migration Best Practices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware has released vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 to the public yesterday. The product has evolved and presents streamlined UI compared to previous version. Upgrade path is available as “side-by-side” where you basically have to install the v 6.0 next to the 5.8 and then launch a migration wizard to transfer the data. But the migration […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Download

How to Delete VSAN Datastore – Lab Time

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

In case like me, you are testing other software solutions in a lab, then you need to destroy stuff to re-claim your hardware for something else. Previously I setup a VSAN cluster in my lab. Now when done, I tested VSAN for some time, I wanted to move on and test something else. So I […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: How to delete VSAN datastore

vSquare Backup for VMware and Hyper-V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

New backup software provider – vSquare Backup, has recently came out of stealth. The company provides backup services for VMware vSphere or recently added Microsoft Hyper-V. They have a Free Plan as well along paid plans based on monthly subscription. vSquare Backup allows not only to backup VMs on those two hypervisors, but at the same time […]

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Performance Best Practices vSphere – ESXi and VMs in General

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

One of the consideration to achieve good performance on ESXi hosts is the entry point – Virtual Machine. If you have chosen a hardware that is VMware supported and it’s already in production you can’t do much about it. You’ve made the acquisition and for few years you’ll be using it. But the VMs you’re […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate for 8 Bay NAS devices with 5 Years Warranty

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Number two of hard disk drives, Seagate, launching new product line of hard disks targeting enterprise NAS devices with up to 16 disks. The principal competitor , WD with their line of WD Red were only available for NAS devices having up to 4 HDDs. Enterprise NAS HDD From Seagate shall have more capacity and larger cache (p […]

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How-to Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text With ClipX – Free Clipboard Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

So many times I’ve been looking into a some kind of clipboard manager which would remember what you have copied into the clipboard earlier. Some kind of clipboard with history. The tool I found can Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text. I found it! This tool is for anyone when working with portions of text […]

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