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VMware vSphere Data Protection – How to Reattach Data Disks if VDP Appliance Won’t Start

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

In case VDP appliance has problem and cannot boot up there is still a way to recover your backups even if your VDP appliance was not backed up (the system) or copied elsewhere. This is because the actual backups are stored at the data disks.   Normally the best practice is to deploy the VDP […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Data Protection

How-to Install VMware Horizon Workspace Portal 2.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware Horizon Workstation Portal 2.1 recently released as a part of the Horizon 6 suite brings much easier deployment options (single VM now) and also integration of AirWatch and Deskstone can be leveraged to secure mobile apps and brings DaaS desktops. While the previous release has had already integrated technologies like Octopus, the deployment and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Horizon Workstation Portal 2.1, how to install Horizon Workstation Portal 2.1

Hands On Labs Presents – EVO:RAIL HOL-SDC-1428

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

There is a new lab at Hands On Labs available for EVO:RAIL. It’s HOL-SDC-1428 and this lab allows to play with the latest technology by VMware. If you don’t already have a HOL account you can create one for free. It’s a good way to explore the different possibilities of EVO:RAIL software without having one. Pretty […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: HOL-SDC-1428, VMware EVO:RAIL demo lab

Free Tool – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client allows Integration of PowerCLI into the Web Client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

New free tool for VMware administrators – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client. The new utility was released by VMware labs recently and allows to execute PowerCLI scripts from within the vSphere web client. The free tool called PowerActions for vSphere Web Client brings also a library of PowerCLI scripts prepared for use. You can add […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerActions for vSphere Web Client

Free Learning VDP Advanced 5.8 – Online Course by VMware Education

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware has put online new training course for vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced version. As you know the advanced version can backup business critical applications like Exchange, SQL or Sharepoint (Even if still on physical), and lifts many limits of VDP standard. The product has evolved since 5.1 or 5.5 versions, where the 5.5 version […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Learning VDP Advanced 5.8, VDP 5.8 free training, vdp advanced free training

Exclusive: interview with Lead Engineer Dave Shanley about EVO: RAIL

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

This is an exclusive interview with a Lead Engineer Dave Shanley who was at the very beginning of the EVO:RAIL process. I’m very glad that Dave was so kind and has accepted to reply to few questions as I thought that it would be cool to get also some informations from behind the scenes – […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: EVO: RAIL interview, VMware EVO:RAIL

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is Showing Unlicensed on Cluster Level

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware VDP and VDP advanced starts to become more popular. One of the main reasons perhaps is the possibility to leverage existing virtual infrastructure to deploy the product without additional Windows licensing. Often Small businesses do invest into a virtual infrastructure but the real utilization is far from 100% the first years. Admins are creating […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) unlicensed

ESX Virtualization (@vladan) at VMworld Barcelona

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

This year I’ll be at VMworld Barcelona again. Thanks to VMware for the blogger pass. VMworld US was certainly awesome for those who managed to attend, but not everyone can. The event has been covered great manner by many bloggers and medias, including myself. My VMworld 2014 page is packed with links, however will get […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMworld Barcelona

How-to update vCenter Operations Manager to the latest release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware has made the upgrade of their products based on Linux VMs, most of the time called Virtual Appliances, very easy. Today I’ll show you How-to update vCenter Operations Manager to the latest release. In fact there is a single file to download with extension PAK. This file is then loaded through the admin UI and […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How-to update vCenter Operations Manager to the latest release

Microsoft Exchange Server performance on VMware Virtual SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

New technical PDF showing Microsoft Exchange Server performance on VMware Virtual SAN. Many customers runs Microsoft Exchange locally at their datacenters and wonder how Exchange would perform. I think the paper comes just in time to show that VSAN can considerably accelerate the Exchange Workflows. The paper is written by Jinpyo Kim (staff engineer in the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Microsoft Exchange Server performance on VMware Virtual SAN

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