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How to run Hyper-V on ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 2, 2013

How-to run Hyper-V on ESXi 5.1 Box

How-to run nested Hyper-V 2012 Server on latest version of ESXi 5.1. If you want to test the latest Microsoft Hyper-V running as a VM on ESXi 5.1 free version, you might run into a following error: “Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running.” when trying to install the Hyper-V role. Just follow this How […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Hyper-V on ESXi 5.1

Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 23, 2013

HP Converged Storage - A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture

[Sponsored] – Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture. There is new document available in my Free Virtualization Content section, which informs about converged storage for virtualization architecture. This PDF document sponsored by HP and Intel, show you with some real case examples, that traditional storage hits it’s limits. Usually because the traditional storage arrays […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Converged Storage

Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 29, 2014

Best Practices for Ovesrubscribtion of CPU, Memory and Storage

Best Practices for Oversubscribing of CPU, Memory and Storage in VMware vSphere environments. New document which explains all about oversubscribtion. When managing VMware vSphere environments, you can easily oversubscribe memory, CPU or disk resources. But meaning that is easy to do does not mean that it’s the best for your infrastructure. How to size the vCPUs […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Oversubscribtion of resources in VMware vSphere

Starwind VMware Backup for VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 23, 2013

Starwind Backup for VMware vSphere 5.1

Starwind VMware Backup – has been launched. Starwind has released new backup product for VMware vSphere called Starwind Backup for vSphere. Fully compatible with latest vSphere 5.1, the product can do backup and recovery of running VMware vSphere or Hyper-V Virtual Machines. The product has had quite a long beta period, and I already informed you […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Starwind VMware Backup

vCenter Server 5.1 Required Ports

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 25, 2012

vCenter Server 5.1 Required ports

If you’re setting up an environment where you have to deal with firewalling and lots of security, it might be useful to have all the necessary ports that are required for vCenter server 5.1 listed somewhere. At first there will be all the required ports for vCenter server running on Windows system, and then bellow […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCenter Server 5.1 Required Ports

VMware Hands-On Labs Public Beta Interest List

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 3, 2013

VMware Hands On Labs

VMware Hands-On Labs for Public Beta Interest List has been opened. VMware Hands on labs remotely? That is something that everybody is waiting for.  This remote labs will be accessible to test different VMware technology without the need having physical lab at home or nested ESXi lab running on your laptop – you could certainly read […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Hands-On Labs

Idera Server Backup 5.0 for virtual and physical architecture released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Idera Server Backup - Bare Metal Restore

Idera Server Backup 5.0 has been released. Idera is a new actor coming to the enterprise market with different approach, from the pricing point of view, at least.  Usually the backup vendors charge per physical socket and it’s called per CPU model. Then, for smaller virtual environments,  there is a less known, Per site pricing model, where […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Idera Server Backup 5.0

Microsoft Exchange 2013 RTM Downloads

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Microsoft Exchange 2013

Microsoft Exchange 2013 RTM available for download. Microsoft has published the RTM code of Exchange Server 2013. You can download and install full-featured software for a 180-day trial, as for now. The product should be available for MSDN subscribers during the days to come. The Micosoft Exchange 2013 RTM brings in several new (simplified) capabilities, starting […]

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

WordPress Backup Cloud Service I’m using – a Time Machine for your blog

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Codeguard - backup service for websites and blogs

Many of you that uses WordPress as a publishing and blogging platform don’t do daily backup. I didn’t do either, until I found this service, which is affordable, and which does have a free plan too. This WordPress backup cloud service costs me some money on monthly basis, with a pro plan, but they’re also […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Wordpress Backup, Wordpress Backup Cloud

VMware I/O Analyzer updated – what’s new?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware IO Analyzer

Update: This post needs a refresh. Recently I wrote an article about a similar tool, (or perhaps exactly the same one, but named differently, a few years later). The tool’s name is IOInsight and can measure a performance of VMs. The utility measures IO performance of individual VMDKs (virtual disks) by capturing I/O traces from ESXi and […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware IO Analyzer

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