Vladan SEGET, Author at ESX Virtualization

VMware vSphere 5.1 – Virtual Hardware Version 9

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VMware vSphere 5.1 brings Virtual Hardware version 9. But before I’ll show you what new features are in this hardware, I’d like to point out theat the things are changing the way you’ll need to keep up with the latest VMware tools. VMware Introduces compatibility level in VMware vSphere 5.1. This is more like to […]

vSphere Data Protection – a new backup product included with vSphere 5.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

This new backup product replaces VMware Data Recovery, which has been introduced in vSphere 4.0 and which will still be supported. But from vSphere 5.1 the vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is going to be The Backup product bundled with vSphere. The VDP has the most of the code from EMC’s Avamar backup product and in […]

VMware vSphere 5 – Building a Virtual Datacenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2015

How to build virtual datacenter from start to finish That’s the point of this book, which has at first has been published in French, and now translated into English. Eric Maillé and René-Francois Mennnecier are the authors of this book. Both authors are VMware vExperts and works at EMC. The book has been published by VMware […]

VMware Workstation 9 has been released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2013

The news just went out. The new release of VMware Workstation 9 introduces many new features. One of the good news is better support for nested virtualization and Windows 8 support. VMware Workstation 9 can be installed on Windows 8 and to support the former Metro UI, where toggling between Metro and Desktop can be […]

Xangati Storm Tracker – New cool Feature to detect bottlenecks in vSphere environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

New feature present in Xangati’s enhanced product detects Storms in the Clouds. VMware has entered the cloud business few years back, and Xangati with new release of Xangati can now help to detect a Storms in the Clouds via new feature called Xangati Storm Tracker. Xangati has developed a way of detecting, recording and alerting […]

Windows 8 RTM Downloads

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

Windows 8 RTM download – 90 days trial Microsoft has released the RTM version of their latest OS for MDSN subscribers the 15th of august. You can read about the roll up schedule in my post here, with release for everyone is schedulled for October 26. If you’re not MSDN subscriber or Microsoft partner, you can […]

PHD Virtual Backup 6.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 28, 2023

PHD Virtual Backup 6.0 – Backup, Restore, Replication and Instant recovery. PHD Virtual has released their new version of backup software for VMware vSphere environments. PHD Virtual backup 6.0 comes up with several completely new features. Those features that are specific to virtualized environments. In this review I’ll focus more on those new features instead […]

Unable to install VMware Tools message

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2013

Unable to Install VMware Tools – The problem can occur in some cases when wanting to upgrade previous versions of VMware Tools. How to get rid off that error and why actually this error is happening. It’s usually because of the previous installation of VMware tools. The installer cannot remove the previous versions of VMware […]

Cool Start Menu for Windows 8.x and Windows Server 2012 (R2)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Microsoft will be releasing soon their new Windows 8.x and Windows Server 2012(R2). There has been many speculations in the press if yes or no the start button will be back. Apparently no, so you’ll have to find your way around that and juggle with Metro …. I still call it metro, because it’s shorter, even if […]

StarWind Partnership with CirrusHosting and more news

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Strategic Partnership for StarWind Software. We’ll also talk about their new Free Offer and also StarWind Cloud VTL, which is special version of Virtual tape library (VTL) library for AWS, which allows organizations to use this virtual tape library as it was physical tape library. StarWind Partnership with CirrusHosting and some more news is topic of today’s […]