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Free Tool for Nested ESXi Labs – ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

There is a free utility called ESXi MAC learning dvFilter released by VMware Labs last week. This utility is provided as a VIB and installs on the physical ESXi host, not on the virtual ESXi hosts. I learned about it by reading posts from William Lam and Andreas Peetz. ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter is kind of […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Videos Tagged With: ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter, free tool ESXi, Nested ESXi

Backup and Restore ESXi Configuration with PowerCLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 8, 2015

In some situations you might need to backup or restore configuration of your ESXi host. This can be done with several tools with GUI front end or you can use tools diretly built-in ESXi and vSphere. And that’s what we will explore today. There might be a situation where the only choice is what you already have […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Backup ESXi config, ESXi configuration backup

EVO: RAIL Demo Video – VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

Before VMworld I have assisted to VMware EVO: RAIL presentation. VMware Hyper-Converged infrastructure presentation video wasn’t available to the public until today, when Duncan Epping has published the video done by Dave Shanley. So here is EVO: RAIL Demo Video. VMware EVO:RAIL has been demoed during VMworld and I have also published a details, together with […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: EVO: RAIL Demo Video

vSphere 6.0 Will Support Hosts with 6 Tb of RAM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

There is many of the features from vSphere 6.0 Beta program which are under NDA. However VMware has unveiled some bits here and there and one of the announce from the What’s New in vSphere session – INF1502.1 – presented by Michael Adams from VMware. The session is available for Free, and One of the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 6.0 with 6TB of RAM

PowerCLI 5.8 R1 Announced as well as VMware SRM 5.8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

During VMworld, VMware has announced upcoming release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 R1 and VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.8 (SRM). The new vCloud Suite 5.8 when available, will also have new PowerCLI 5.8 R1, which will start faster and will have new cmdlets for storage policy. The new PowerCLI 5.8 U1 will also support the upcoming […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware PowerCLI 5.8, VMware SRM 5.8

vSphere Replication 5.8 Featuring Cloud Replication

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

vSphere Replication 5.8 announced together with vSphere Data Protection 5.8 during VMworld, brings in an interesting possibility to replicate directly to the cloud service provider. When configuring the replication of your VM, you not only have possibility to replicate to another vCenter server, but also to cloud service provider’s facility. This could be any of […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Replication 5.8

vSphere 6.0 Content Library

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware vSphere 6.0 is hot. Not released yet. Beta 6 is Still under NDA, but some features has already been unveiled. One of the new features that has been unveiled in this release is vSphere 6.0 Content Library. What it is? As you know, the NDA don’t allows us to report on All the details, but we cal talk […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 6.0 Content Library

TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US are Online – Check it out

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

TOP 10 Free Sessions from VMworld 2014 US. There are new sessions from VMworld US 2014 available for free. There is a TOP 10 of them available. (in fact there is 18 of them). It’s a good way to allow to people which were not able to attend to still have something to watch until […]

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vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – What’s New?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

First of all, both versions of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) gets new update. The latest versions will be vSphere Data Protection 5.8 when they’ll be available for download. For now the latest versions stays 5.5.6, which is already compatible with VSAN. The announce of the new version of VDP is especially interesting for customers who […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Data Protection 5.8

Rapid-Cloning Technology (project Fargo) and copy-on-write architecture – Future of Desktop Virtualization

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

Project Fargo was introduced during the second keynote on Day 2 at VMworld this year. It allows with ingenious technique to clone a VM (seconds, not minutes) and provide access to the user for that VM. It’s actually differential clone of a running VM. The new VM shares the memory and disk. I would also […]

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