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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 […]

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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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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

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