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Memory compression Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Memory compression demo video - new feature in vSphere 4.1

Vmware Video demo about Memory compression. By using memory compression, feature which is enabled by default in vSphere 4.1 you can speed access up to 1000 times….because the compression/decompression is much faster than swapping to disk. In the video you’ll see a simple test where the memory compression will be deactivated on the first ESX […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Memory Compression vSphere, memory optimization, New feature vSphere 4.1 - memory compression

VMark 2.0 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Free benchmarking software from VMware – VMark 2.0 The free benchmarking software is destined for hardware vendors to be able to test the hardware for performance. It’s a multi-host virtualization benchmark software which since of the version 1.0 did evolve quite a lot. The second release of VMark can compare different virtualization platforms, which consist of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how to benchmark vmware, vmware benchmarking free, vmwark 2.0

How to fix damaged restore points in VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Data Recovery Integrity Check Fails

VDR – VMware Data Recovery, fixing damaged restore poins. VDR is a part of vSphere Essentials PLUS and above versions (except standard) and it’s a virtual appliance which helps you to protect your Virtual Machines running under VMware vSphere 4.x by using deduplication and CBT. It’s a simple backup solution with no e-mail reporting (yet), […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: destination datastore locked in VDR, Fixing damaged restore points, VDR destination datastores locked, VMware Data Recovery

Review – Exchange Server 2010 Training

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Review of  Trainsignal’s Training course for Exchange Server 2010. My experiences with Trainsignal trainings are as for now very good since as I got the chance and I reviewed some of the VMware vSphere 4 training courses done by David Davis and other vExperts. I was not sure how the Exchange Training was gonna be. Sure, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Exchange 2010 Training, Exchange 2010 TrainSignal Trainig, Exchange server training

How-to start SSH on your ESXi Servers remotely via PowerCLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Here is a new video inspired by Alan Renouf’s post. Well I wanted to test Alan’s post on starting SSH service on your ESXi 4.1 host remotely via PowerCLI. And as you know, picture (video) is worth a thousand words…. I’ve done a video of that. Now, I’m not a scripting guy.. not at all. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: activate SSH remotely on ESXi, SSH ESX access, SSH ESXi

Interresting KB about re-appearing the VMware tools icons in the taskbar

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

How to make reapear your VMware Tools Icon, in case it got lost somehow. This is a quick how-to. Really no brainer, but worth to remember. In this KB recently refreshed it’s discussed a situation when you won’t see the VMware Tools icon in the taskbar anymore. What to do? There is just this VMware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware tools, Vmware Tools not showing

Free tool from Quest Software can monitor 1 vCenter Server and 250 VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Monitor 1 vCenter for free with vFoglight Quick View. Yes, that’s a lot. For quite some SMB customers it’s a great news, since this free tool from Quest Software can monitor up to 500 objects (250 VMs) and 1 vCenter Server. But the full product – vFoglight 6.5 can do more than that. You can […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Quest Software vFoglight Quick View 6.5, vFoglight 6.5 Quick View, Vizioncore vFoglight 6.5

Building Virtual Infrastructure with VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

How to put in place a virtual infrastructure

There is new book about VMware vSphere from French blogger Eric Maille. Eric Maille is a French blogger and IT engineer from Paris. He blogs at virt-now.com (FR) and he wrote a book about VMware vSphere. In fact I was not aware of that at all and I feel a bit ashamed since I could […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: French vSphere 4 book, VMware vSphere 4 french book, vSphere 4, vSphere 4 Book

Interview with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 22, 2010

Double Take becomes a part of Vision Solutions. Double Take software was acquired earlier this year by Vision Solutions. I had a chance to be introduced with Christian Tata from Vision Solutions and he replied on some of my questions I asked about. @vladan. So let me introduce yourself. What’s your name and what’s your […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Continuous replications, DR solutions, P2V, V2V, Vision Solutions

5 hours in average to recover a VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Data Protection Report

VMware Data Protection – the annual report by Vanson Bourne. The report is written by Vanson Bourne. It’s an independent market research organization. The survey was conducted in August 2010 and about 500 CIOs from organizations from US, UK, France and Germany did participated. The report contains 19 pages. The report in pDF format can […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Special Report on Data protection, VDR, VMware Data Protection, vSphere Essentials, vSphere Essentials Plus

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