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Performance best practices for vSphere 5.5 – technical PDF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware vSphere 5.5 is officially GA since few days. The whole vCloud suite starts to leverage Flash features (vFlash read cache) and upcoming VSAN. VSAN really is something that’s transforming the classic shared storage market and shared storage approach in design.  VSAN is discussed briefly in the pdf Performance best practices for vSphere 5.5. I’m planning […]

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Windows 8.1 upgrade options

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 23, 2013

New pricing options for Windows 8.1 has been unveiled by Microsoft last week. Retail version Windows 8.1 will be available in standalone, full versions of the software. Microsoft has previously announced that only upgrades from previous versions of Windows might be available. Users willing to upgrade from Windows 7 can upgrade to W8.1. There is several […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization

VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSphere 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 available for Download!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Yesterday VMware has finally released the final release of VMware vSphere 5.5 which is GA and available for download. The whole vCloud suite and vSphere products including ESXi 5.5 are available at VMware. After Friday’s aler through Twitter and VMware KB not to let the automatic update let upgrade the vSphere replication to 5.5 pre-release […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5.5 download, vcloud Suite 5.5 download, vSphere 5.5 download

VMware VSAN Beta Community opens the doors

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

A publicly available VMware VSAN beta community has been unveiled last week. You may have missed the news, so that’s why this post. VSAN beta community provides the latest news and informations about upcoming VMware VSAN. There are some PDF technical documents available there like VSAN datasheet or VSAN technical whitepaper. There is also an […]

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Nlite alternative for Windows 8 and Windows 7 – WinReducer 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Everyone knows Nlite, right? Nlite is tool for reducing the size of original Windows ISOs, but the software hasn’t been updated yet for Windows 7 or Widnows 8. Good news, the developer is working on it. With such a tools you can basically strip some options directly from the ISO and install more lightweight system. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Nlite alternative, WinReducer 8

Disable hibernation on Windows 7 and Windows 8 based systems – standalone and GPO configs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 20, 2013

You’ve wondered how to disable hibernation in Windows 7 (W8) and why? Hibernation function on W7 (vista, 8) uses hiberfil.sys hidden system file for fast wake up. When activated hiberfil.sys is created at the root filesystem. Unfortunately, this file is usually very large depending on how much your system has physical memory. Example of my […]

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Latency Sensitive Applications on vSphere 5.5 – Deployment and Best practices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 19, 2013

Even though everyone is waiting for vSphere 5.5 GA code, the first papers starting to show up. If you’re regular reader of my blog, you remember my article which introduced new feature in vSphere 5.5 which talks about Latency Sensitive Applications on vSphere 5.5. Check out my other vSphere 5.5 features from dedicated VMware vSphere 5.5 […]

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New Free VMware Labs available Online at HOL

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Few days back I reported about new labs that has been added to Free VMware Labs at Hands On Line after VMworld San Francisco. And today VMware has added even more labs to the list, which starts to be quite impressive.  All new VMware technology (yes, the one which is not available for public yet too !) is […]

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How to Remove Cached IP addresses and hostnames in vSphere client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2016

If you’re IT consultant, IT guy working with VMware vSphere or just testing ESXi in your lab, after a certain time you’ll find that in your management workstation or laptop when launching the vSphere client (the Windows based) you start to accumulate the old connection settings. All those IPs and host/DNS names starts to make […]

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Official VMware VSAN Videos – VSAN config, requirements, interoperability and VM availability

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 19, 2013

There are new videos of VSAN available through VMwareTV YouTube Channel. There are 5 of them and all showing VSAN, the configuration steps and availability. Precisely one of those videos (video 5) which shows the details what happens if there is a host failure and the VM storage policy has been defined with Number of failures […]

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