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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

VMware Workstation 7.1.4 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

New Update of VMware Workstation has been released – it’s the version 7.1.4 and it adds W7 SP1 and Ubuntu 10.10 support. The new VMware Workstation 7.1.4 is available.  This is a maintenance release only that fix known issues. The new features and fixes: – Windows 7 SP1 and Ubuntu 10.10 support for guest and […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Player 3.1.4, VMware player update, VMware Workstation 7.1.4, VMware Workstation Update

20% and 25 % Discount on VMware Workstation and Fusion 3.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

You can get 20% discount for VMware Workstation and 25% discount for VMware Fusion 3.1 by using coupon codes below. Please note that the codes might not be active when I publish this post. In this case, come back later (or the next day). Enjoy… Save 20% on VMware Workstation 7.1! Offer Expires: 1st of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Coupon Code VMware Fusion, VMware fusion promo

Presenting 2 Free Tools from Solarwinds for VMware Infrastructure admins

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

VMware Admins has got another choice for free monitoring of ESX(i) hosts and managing them. First of all, I’d like to welcome Solarwinds as a new sponsor for my ESX Virtualization MAG website. If you’re not a regular reader, consider subscribing by Google Reader (or other RSS reader), because with the daily website updates you […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VM Console, Free VM Console for ESX, Free VM Monitor, Solarwinds Free Tools for ESX

Not enough physical memory after installing W7 SP1 VMware Workstation error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

When you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1 you might end up with an error while starting a VM. Those issues might appear not only on Windows 7 but also on Windows 2008R2 after installing SP1. After installing Windows 7 SP1 on you PC, you might experience those issues in VMware Workstation: Your virtual machine […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: error starting VM in VMware Workstation, unable to start VM VMware Workstation

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