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Foglight for Virtualization – New Free Tool from Dell for Multi Hypervisors Environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Foglight for Virtualization - Snapshot Explorer

Dell has just released updated free tool for virtual infrastructure called Foglight for Virtualization. It’s a known tool to my readers previously called vOps Server Explorer and which contains already 5 different Free utilities to give you an overview of overall activity of your virtual environment, eventual bottlenecks etc. In addition to vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 3.0, the RHEV 3.1 is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Foglight for Virtualization

Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

New technical PDF from VMware which helps with a design of a DMZ by using software protection that comes with VMware vSphere. By using the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS). The vCNS is a product bundled with VMware vSphere (from Essentials Plus and higher) and vCloud Suite, and it’s destined to secure VMware vSphere environments. vCNS […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vCloud Networking and Security

How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 27, 2013

When VMware vSphere Data Protection has been launched last year, there is now a way to migrate the backups made with vSphere Data Recovery (VDR). VMware moved forward since then and provides a tool for migrating the VDR restore points into VDP.  The tool is built into the latest version of VDP. The version 5.1.10 of […]

| Filed Under: Backup

Veeam Backup 7 Announced with WAN Accellerator

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Veeam Backup 7 has been announced today, but the GA release is planned for Q3. The countdown to the new version has been floating around since some time at the Veeam’s teaser page, but today all the features has been unveiled. There is many of them which had been added because clients has asked for […]

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| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup 7

Top 5 VM performance problems and how to solve them

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 29, 2014

We could discuss Top 5 VM Performance Problems during long hours, but most important problems are usually storage array performance problems and not enough memory in your infrastructure. So when your hosts starts to “fight” for memory and starts to use one of the 4 memory reclamation techniques that VMware uses, then there might be time […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Top 5 performance problems in Virtual Environement

View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 17, 2013

There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here – VMware Horizon Workspace – […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff

NTFS Permissions Reporter to quickly check directory permissions on file servers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: NTFS Permissions Reporter

VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified.  Before pretending for a VCDX, the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2018

A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi maintenance mode

WordPress Performance Test – Track your plugins first!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

There is a very useful plugin when it comes to track WordPress plugins performance and resource consumption. A P3 Performance Profiler plugin allows you to automatically test the WordPress site and show you the plugin that uses the most of the resources. Usually after installing WordPress, the clean installation needs to be enhanced to fit your needs. The plugins […]

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