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Which Tool to use for cloning ESXi on USB stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I was seeking the other day for an utility which would allow me to create an exact copy of an USB key with VMware ESXi installed. To clone ESXi installed on USB stick to another USB.  I looked through the internet and tried a freeware utility that did not work (ImageUSB), but then stumbled across Clonezilla which […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: cloning ESXi on USB stick

StarWind® Virtual SAN™ is available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 3, 2014

Starwind Software has a new version of their flagship software – StarWind® Virtual SAN™ V8. The product is available for both virtualization platforms. VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.  I already blogged about the features that are present in this version, but I quickly recap: Massive Scale-Out storage architecture Creates fault tolerant shared storage with unlimited number […]

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VMware vSphere Performance – New Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 12, 2014

New book has just been published – VMware vSphere Performance. The authors are well known in VMware virtualization communities – Matt Liebowitz, Christopher Kusek, Rynardt Spies. I looked into the content on Amazon. A test lab design is there. How and why to design a test lab and which tools to use for capacity planning, […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware vSphere Performance

My VSAN journey – all done!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2016

Another VSAN homelab is born! After waiting some time for more SSDs, Infiniband cables and Perc H310 storage controller cards from eBay, now when all the pieces has arrived I’m able to put everything together and run my VMware VSAN cluster. I expanded my older hosts with internal storage (previously there was a shared storage […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware VSAN homelab, VSAN Homelab

5 Myths about VDP advanced – see yourself

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware has published an article on vSphere SMB blog concerning VDP advanced (VDPA) – an advanced backup solution from VMware. The product follows per CPU licensing model and offers 8TB of deduplicated backup capacity. There are apparently some myths around which are explained in the article. One of them is agentless vs with-agent approach for […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDP Advanced, VDP advanced VMware

Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2014

Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere

There is a new book that has been written by a fellow blogger Christian Mohn (@hobbel). The book was published under Packt publishing but is available also through major online stores like Amazon. Printed or Kindle versions are available. The book is destined for VMware administrators who is looking to protect virtual infrastructure by using one of […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0 book

VSAN Hardware Design Guide 1.0 Released – Check it out

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 5, 2014

A new PDF VSAN Hardware design Guide 1.0 has been released by VMware recently. This guide, called VMware® Virtual SAN™ Hardware Guidance help out with the designing the necessary hardware for VMware VSAN. Even if blade servers are supported for VSAN, they’re not optimal because of their limited space to hold disk groups. Also extensibility of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VSAN Hardware Design Guide, VSAN HCL

Cool video – VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 4, 2014

I really liked this demo video showing the peformance of vDGA inside of a VDI desktop using Horizon 6. This video was produced by Rory Clements, from the End User Computing BU at VMware. Very impressive and realistic. He speaks quite fast, but he shows off nicely the integration and configuration of the Nvidia card, […]

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Memory Channel per Bank getting non active when using PERC H310 Contoler card – Fixed!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 12, 2014

I had this memory problem since about a week in my lab, and while still waiting for other pieces I ordered for the lab, I didn’t really seek a solution. But tonight I received all necessary parts to be able to assembly all 3 hosts for VSAN. But there was still this problem with memory. […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Dell PERC H310

Unitrends Enterprise Backup 7.4 Product Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) 7.4 for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V is a newly released version of Unitrend’s Enterprise backup solution. The product brings a very innovative set of features that offer additional functionality to a product that is already packed with benefits that enable you to reliably protect enterprise workloads. But before diving into each […]

| Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Unitrends Enterprise Backup 7.4 Product Review

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