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Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server – deep dive and best practices. Good Read in VMware Technical Journal 2013!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server is just one of the chapters present in VMware Technical Journal, which went out few days ago. You’ll find the information about how memory overcommit works and which techniques are used, and also some best practices or how to avoid pitfalls. It’s a deep dive chapter. There are also some […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Memory Overcommitment in The ESX server

PCIe XP941 Samsung SSD – 1.4GB/second.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

The limit of 6Gb/s of the SATA III is just surpassed with the latest technology from Samsung. The code release is XP941 and it’s a PCIe flash card which delivers impressive 1.4GB/second sequential read speed, and most importantly, it’s not a sample. The mass production has already started and it seems that it’s already shipped with the […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: XP941

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET) – what’s it useful for?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Microsoft has released a final version of free utility called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 (EMET). A mitigation technology is protection against attackers, where a malicious code cannot be executed to infect Windows systems. EMET can act at different levels. At system level, at process level, or at the application level. There were always some kind of […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

VMware Tools Download From Online Repository

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

I got few questions recently concerning VMware Tools. Usually Installation of VMware tools is easy process. Few clicks in the vSphere client and you install the VMware tools automatically or interactively. There is a third supported way to install VMware tools.  In case you want to do a manual install of VMware tools from within […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vmware tools download

What’s the Required ports for VMware VDP?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware VDP as a solution, when deployed in firewalled environment, needs some ports to be opened in order to function properly. Here is a list of ports that are used by vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1. Note that there are some ports that are used in the VDP VDP advanced. Those are ports 28001 and […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Required ports for VMware VDP

vCloud Director and How it Works on Backup Academy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2013

There is a new 40 min video at Backup Academy website maintained by Veeam, which explains what vCloud Director is and why it’s interesting even for smaller shops to go and look at it as a possibility to build applications that are executed on remote locations – in the cloud and by using vCD. You’ll […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: vCloud Director

How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

Easy Install, clean Interface…vCenter Log Insight – New Product

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

A public beta product called vCenter Log Insight can be downloaded and tested. I’ve downloaded and installed this product in my lab. The install/configure takes at most 5 minutes of your time. The product currently in public beta, is going to be licensed per host, and you’ll need vCenter which is a central point where […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCenter Log Insight

VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1.11 and vSphere Data protection Advanced 5.1.21 Released – update yours

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Last week new update has been released for VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP). As you can doubt, new maintenance release for both VDP products has been released. Those releases are mainly fixing bugs related to both products. If you’re concerned and running your backup solution on VDP, consider to update to the latest release. In […]

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VMware WSX 1.1 Released – Check It Out

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 9, 2013

VMware WSX 1.1 Beta release is available. For those of you who don’t know what’s WSX is. It’s basically a possibility to access VMs that runs under VMware Workstation, remotely by using just a web browser. This opens possibilities for tablets, and an access from different OS without any plugins or software.  The WSX does […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware WSX

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