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VDR plugin do not connect to VDR appliance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

When you can’t connect to the VDR appliance through the plugin present in vCenter. I’m sure that you have already experienced this issue if you’re using VDR for smaller deployements. In fact without particular reason there is some kind of lost connectivity and you’re presented to with the connection window prompting you to connect to […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: connection plugin VDR issues, problem connection VDR, VMware DATA recovery troubleshooting

Installing FreeNAS 8 and taking it for a spin

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

How to install and configure FreeNAS 8

FreeNAS 8 got installed and configured in no time on my NAS box. With my Do it yourself NAS series, recently there has been a new release of FreeNAS 8. Since I tested the 7.2 quite deeply in my small lab and quickly the Beta RC4 of the FreeNAS 8, I was just happily surprised […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: FreeNAS 8 Installation, VMware Lab with FreeNAS

Learn PowerCLI with Trainsignal’s vSphere PowerCLI training

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2013

New VMware Training from TrainSignal - Managing vSphere PowerCLI

New training from TrainSignal – VMware vSphere PowerCLI training. First of all, don’t be afraid to see some PowerCLI commands or say that that it’s not for me. Hey, even me which I’m not a scripting guy I can learn some PowerCLI and I’m quite proud of that… 😎 VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a tool for […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Free video from vSphere PowerCLI training, VMware vSphere PowerCLI training

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

New Release of Paragon Hard Disk Manager Pro 2011. Paragon has recently updated Hard Disk manager and I had the opportunity to give it a try. First of all, the product runs on desktop OS only, if you want to use it on Server Systems, you can try Hard Disk Manager Server Edition. Since I […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Migrate Os to SSD, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 - Migrate Os to SSD

How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

ESXi 4.1 does not store log files locally. How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files. It’s recommended to configure syslog and get the log files persistent. You have to configure ESXi to send the logs somewhere, because they are not stored locally. Because if you need to reboot your ESXi host, the logs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: configuring vMA as a syslog server, How to configure vMA as a destination of ESXi log files, how to configure vma as a destination of syslog, syslog with vMA

How to backup ESXi configuration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How-to backup ESXi4.1 configuration

One of those questions you might be asking yourself is the one on How to backup ESXi configuration. You might be saying why backup if the re-installation of an ESXi takes just few minutes, but wait. There is not only the installation of ESXi, but there are all the configuration files concerning virtual switches and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: backup and restore ESXi 4.1 configuration files, ESXi 4.1 configuration backup, How to backup ESXi 4.1 configuration files

Free training on ESXi for VMware Partners

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Free ESXi Training for VMware Partners and as a bonus Free e-book (during limited time) from Dave Mischenko. This 3 hours online course is available for FREE from VMware education services and all VMware partners has access. You can familiarize yourself (if you haven’t already) with the changes which needs to be done while you […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free ESXi Training, Free ESXi Training for VMware Partners, VMware Free training

VMware toolbar updated with really cool features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

VMware Toolbar gets better and better. Since the launch of VMware toolbar last year the little Add-on for Firefox gets better and better. This Add on for Firefox has many features and you have all the necessary informations, access to the documentation, downloads, support and communities, all this at your fingertips. The latest update of VMware […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware Official Toolbar, VMware support toolbar, VMware Toolbar

VMware Compatibility Guide 2.0 – easier way to check your existing or future VI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware HCL - Hardware compatibility list version 2.0

New version of VMware Compatibility guide has been released by VMware. The Online Searching tool is still in preview, but the possibilities are numerous. You can check whether your existing parts of your virtual infrastructure are compatible with different versions of VMware vSphere or ESX 3 or ESX 3.5…. The tool presents itself as a […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff

New beta of Starwind SAN 5.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Starwind beta release 5.7 of Starwind SAN. Update: In this new public beta release v. 5.7 there are several enhancements and if you want to test the beta, just email to  [email protected] just go and ask through the online form on Starwind’s website here. They’ll provide you with download link. Starwind provides some good quality […]

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