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Nakivo Backup & Replication – Free NFR license for vExperts, VCPs etc…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Few weeks back I reported about Nakivo, which is New company providing low cost backup solutions for VMware. You can read about Nakivo in my detailed article here – Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Virtualization Backup Company. What’s interesting with Nakivo is that the cost of their backup is particularly interesting for VMware […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Nakivo Backup

How-to Reduce VMDK size: VMware Converter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2016

Thin provisioned disks grow up with the time. When you work with a thin disk provisionned VM, you are copying new files into a VM, then deleting them, again and again, this process grow the thin disks over time. If you delete files from within the VM wanting to gain the space back, it just […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: shrink vmdk

HA agent on the host failed – what means the different possible messages?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

It’s been long time since I wanted to write for myself the different possible states of HA agent messages, when HA agent on the host failed. So If you find it elsewhere, don’t worry, it’s possible as there are many VMware resources out there with many competent folks. For my own study purposes I need […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: HA agent on the host failed

How to check if your host is capable to run nested ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 8, 2013

Nested ESXi technology is fascinating. In my recent article Nested vSphere Lab -Ideas? , I was thinking about what hardware, or which way to go for a nested lab. By using nested virtualization It’s great way to learn more about those virtualization technologies, without ruining yourself. Not only you can learn about VMware but also Hyper-V. […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: run nested ESXi

Nested vSphere Lab – ideas?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Nested vSphere Lab concept is getting more and more popular than physical lab with a couple of whiteboxes and shared storage. In my usual quest for best vSphere homelab I was recently thinking of different solutions. As always, get the best possible price/performance/usability scenario. Currently in my lab I’m running 2 whiteboxes with vSphere 5.1 installed […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VMware Converter Standalone 5.0.1 – file menus in different language

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 28, 2013

How to change the language on the File Menus

I’ve had this “problem” with VMware Converter standalone 5.0.1 since a while, but I was just not paying attention to it since it wasn’t blocking. Just annoying  What I’m talking about? When running the VMware Converter software, it showed the File menus and labels in French. I’m running English localized Windows 7 x64 system. Not […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: VMware Converter Standalone 5.0.1

VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design (VCAP-CID) released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

This advanced cert exam has been released by VMware today. After passing this exam and you’re already VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD or VCDX5, you’ll earn automatically VCP-Cloud certification. The exam has 115 questions with multiple choices, drag-and-drop or design items. Passing score 300 out of maximum 500 remains the same as on the other VMware exams. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vcap-cid

Windows Server 2012 licensing in virtual environments – simulation for smaller shops

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

This article applies to all virtualization technologies used to run Windows Server 2012 VMs. In fact, I would like to clear out some misunderstanding and do small simulation of price for small shops (2 physical hosts), when it comes to a number of VMs which needs to run, and also the number of physical hosts that are […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Windows Server 2012

VMware Mirage Cool Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

VMware Mirage -how it works

VMware Mirage is one of my products I’m interested in since a couple of months. Since the acquisition of Vanova by VMware, the product has been updated and improved by VMware. I’ve assisted to a live Demo of the product during VMworld Barcelona. I did an interview with Tom Nikl – Mirage product manager. If you have […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Mirage

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Administration Training Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2013

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Administration

New Training – Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Administration – has been released by TrainSignal. You’ll learn the best practices to Install and configure Microsoft Exchange 2013. The course has 22 lessons where you’ll be able to learn not only how to install but also what’s the best way to migrate from previous versions of Exchange. Exchange […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Administration

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