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TOP 5 things to do after installing WordPress

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 16, 2017

Top 5 things to do after installing Wordpress Blog

When you start a new blog, there is things that you have to do right after installing. WordPress installation is easy to do and most of the time it’s even provided by your hosting provider. But before start pumping out some content, let’s have a look what necessary steps you should take. TOP 5 things […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Top 5 Things to Do After Installing Your New WordPress Blog

Free GUI utility called svfAlarms for Import and Export vCenter Alarms

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 9, 2013

By chance I stumbled through this free GUI utility called svfAlarms, which enables you to import and export vCenter Alarms. The author does not provide his name on his blog (he probably does not care about glory… -:) … ). But the tool is useful for persons wanting to quickly import alarms created on other […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Import and Export vCenter Alarms

Get Free VM images from Microsoft for testing

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

Microsoft enables developpers to test different versions of Internet Explorer, in order to test website’s optimization, viewing in different versions of IE. In fact, when you go to this Microsoft’s site, you can download Full Free VM images for different virtualization platforms. VMware Player (or Workstation), Virtual Box, Virtual PC, Hyper-V 2008 or Hyper-V 2012. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VM images

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 […]

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