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New benchmarking tool for VDI performance troubleshooting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Remote Session Virtual Indexer

Login consultants has released new version of benchmarking tool for VDI -Virtual Session Indexer 3.5 The Login ‘Virtual Session Indexer’ tool is a platform independent, ‘turn-key’ performance measurement solution. You’re able to test performance VDI sessions, by simulating a real workload of office workers, but not only. The solutions comes in two editions. Free and […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Citrix, VDI, VDI performance, Vmware

VMware Private Cloud Computing- a new book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

VMware Private Cloud Computing

New book in preorder at Amazon. This new book written by Simon Gallagher, who is a creator of vTARDIS system. vTARDIS is basically a Single -box-server running nested ESXi hypervisors. The goal of such configuration is learning. Learning vSphere infrastructure, learning networking when you’re on a budget. Simon got awarded last year at VMworld Europe […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vCloud Director 1.5, VMware Private Clouds, vSphere 5

Migrate VMs with snapshots – Yes, in vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 9, 2013

Migrate VM with snapshots - what's your options

In vSphere 5 you can migrate VM with snapshots – it’s supported. I had this question through an e-mail, from one of my readers and so I thought that I’d share it… In previous versions of vSphere and ESX, (ESX/ESXi3.x and ESX/ESXi4), one had to delete snapshots before migrating a VM into another location. In vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: cold migration with snapshots, migrating vm with snapshots, RDM, storage vmotion with snapshots

SvSAN by Stormagic is VMware Ready for vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Stormagic SvSAN vs VMware VSA

Another VMware ready Virtual Appliance leveraging DAS (direct attached storage). SvSAN leverages the local disks of each of ESX/ESXi server to create a shared storage pool which is presented to each of those ESX(i) server hosts. This basically makes a creation of a HA cluster much cheaper then one would normally do with a dedicated […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: DAS cluster, Stormagic SvSAN, VMware VSA

VMware Flings Site – where the Free VMware treasures are

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2011

VMware Flings - ESX System Analyzer - another must have tool

VMware Flings Site with new Fling – ESX System Analyzer If you need to migrate ESX to ESXi some tools can be handy. Oh there are tools for that? Yes, they call them Flings… -:). Can be found at https://labs.vmware.com/flings The tool analyzes your existing ESX environment and shows you basically what needs to be […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX System Analyzer, free tools vmware, Migrate ESX to ESXi

How Murphy’s law affected my blog

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

murphy's law

Be ready or …. This is a very personal post. First of all, my dear readers, I’d like to inform you that my blog was victim of a hack. You might be wondering in the past few days that my website did not responded or showed an error. Yes, this happens not only to banks […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: blog security, Offsite backups, Wordpress backup strategies

Which ESX/ESXi/vCenter builds corresponds to which update levels

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2013

Host Build numbers vs Update levels. In this KB article from VMware you can easily find the correlation between the build numbers and update levels. For example you want to know which was the build number of ESXi 4.0 U1, you’ll be able to find it in the table provided in this KB article from […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX builds, ESXi Build numbers, vCenter Builds

VMware Data Recovery 2.0 – the upgrade process from earlier version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VDR - upgrade to the version 2.0 how to

How to upgrade from VDR 1.2? The new VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (VDR) has been released together with the release of vSphere 5 – VMware vSphere 5 available for download – and since there is quite a few upgrades planned ahead, it might be handy to have it written/bookmarked on my website as well. The upgrade process […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To Tagged With: How to update VDR, How to update VMware Data recovery, How to upgrade VDR, Upgrade VMware Data Recovery, VDR

Start-up several VMs one after another – VMware Workstation Tip

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 9, 2013

Configure Delay in between VMs when starting

Want to start-up several VMs one after another? Read on. The new version of VMware Workstation has dropped Teams functionality. By using the Teams, one could configure the delay, when each VM in that team started after the previous one. I posted about the teams functionality in my article here. But the feature of powering on […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Configure delay in between VMs, Start-up delay between VMs Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

Which Method to upgrade to ESXi 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 4, 2011

Upgrading to ESXi 5.0 – which way to go in which situation There are several different methods on when it comes to upgrading to the latest ESXi 5.0. There are also different situations, which you might consider, before upgrading. First, are you upgrading 3 ESXi or 30….. or even more… Which method to choose? For […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5 upgrade methods, how to upgrade to ESXi 5, upgrade to ESXi 5

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