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VDR 1.2.1 with enhanced stability

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 9, 2013

Maintenance release of VMware Data Recovery (VDR) – 1.2.1. It seems that I completely missed this update of VDR. It’s just maintenance release. This version 1.2.1 brings up some enhancements which are suppose to make the product more stable and more robust. In this maintenance release there are no new features announced, just bug fixes and enhancements. […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Backup for VMware vSphere, VDR 1.2.1, VMware Data Recovery Update

Installation Openfiler 2.99 and configuring NFS share

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Installation of Openfiler 2.99 for my VMware vSphere Lab

Today’s article I’ll show you the Installation and configuration of the latest Openfiler. In fact, few days ago, a new build – 2.99 has been released. This is after very long period where no updates to Openfiler were made. I did again choose NFS as an access protocol, since in my earlier post with FreeNAS […]

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| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: connect Openfiler NFS share ESX, ESX Openfiler, NFS Openfiler VMware ESX, Openfiler nfs

Performance tests with FreeNAS 7.2 in my homelab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 12, 2015

How to configure ESX host to access NFS storage VMware vSphere

Connecting to my ESXi 4.1 host and doing some performance tests with IOMeter. In my last post I have installed FreeNAS 7.2 on the homemade NAS box. I took the way to build a homemade NAS box, which in the end is cheaper than other NAS boxes you can buy, like QNAP or Synology and […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Home lab with FreeNAS test, Performance Tests FreeNAS 7.2, shared storage if you're on a budget, VMware LAB test NAS device, vSphere Homelab

Can’t access via SSH After upgrade to ESX 4.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

You might experience this issue after upgrading to ESX 4.1. But, fortunately there is plenty of information on the web, where you can find the answers how to easily re-enable SSH. One of those places are VMware KB. The KB explaining what to do when you’re in situation like this. After the upgrade, only the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Service Console SSH access, SSH root ESX 4.1, upgrade to ESX 4.1 SSH

VMware Home Lab: building NAS at home to keep the costs down – installing FreeNAS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2018

FreeNAS – Why I tried FreNAS if I had an good experience with Openfiler in the past? Well, testing, testing…but also it seems that the FreeNas developing community is more dynamic, and the RC5 of FreeNAS 8 just went out yesterday and apparently it’s the last RC before the final version of FreeNAS 8. The […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: FreeNAS configuration, Homebuild NAS with Intel Atom Double core CPU, Installation FreeNAS, Low cost NAS for vSphere Lab

How to build low cost shared storage for vSphere lab – assembling the parts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Pieces showed up with the UPS shipping, so …let’s mount it !In the introductory part I wrote few days ago I presented you with the choices I took and why I went the way DIY (Do It Yourself) for my home lab for my shared storage for VMware vSphere Lab. Today I received all the […]

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| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Cheap NAS made at home, DIY home made NAS, VMware Lab with home made NAS

How to build a low cost NAS for VMware Lab – introduction

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

Some words about how the project started. During the past several days/weeks I’ve been thinking of upgrading my home lab. It’s something that can be costly, especially when you start from zero. I started last year with one multi usage box running VMware Workstation and running ESXi as a VM, with adding some SSD drives […]

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| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Home made NAS box for VMware Lab, Intel Atom NAS box how-to built it, vSphere Homelab NAS box

Veeam Backup 5.0.2 supports backup of Exchange 2010 SP1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 13, 2013

Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0.2 released. New version of Veeam backup and Replication has been released few days ago. Maintenance release only which fixes some bugs, but there are some new features introduced too. First of all, you are now able to evolve (if it’s your case) to Exchange 2010 with SP1, because it’s now […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: U-Air for Exchange 2010 R2, Veeam Backup, Veeam Backup and replication 5.0.2

My ESXi 4 Whitebox

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 23, 2016

My One (at the moment) ESXi 4.1 whitebox runs with some SATA and SSD drives. UPDATE: You can access directly my ESXi Homelab Page Here. I’m preparing a series of articles about the evolution of my homelab, but I just realized that I haven’t blogged about my actual setup. I evolved with my home lab […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4.1 whitebox, ESXi Whitebox, Vladan.fr

How to balance VMware Performance and Capacity – video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

17 min of video discussing the balance between performance and capacity. In this video Bryan Semple from vKernel discuss about performance and capacity. The video is quite long – 17 minutes. What’s important and what’s not. The video has been done in Toronto VMUG and the interaction with the users is very interesting since they […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: video vkernel capacity, video vkernel performance, vKernel Performance and capacity

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