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How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2018

Before you start with the update, make sure to create a backup of your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Virtual Machine (VM). The backup is usually done by your backup software, and you can also configure a file-level backup introduced in vSphere 6.5 and further enhanced with a scheduler in vSphere 6.7. The protocols supported […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) - [Guide]

What is VMware VM Customization Specification and How to use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 30, 2019

VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template.  Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: VMware VM Cloning, What is VMware VM Customization Specification

How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 18, 2018

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Creating Image file device in StarWind VSAN has some options that we’ll discuss today. In this post, you’ll learn How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN. Image device can be configured with or without cache. The cache is used to speed up the processing of disk requests using a faster intermediate storage […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

What is VMware Cloud Foundation?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2018

VMware Cloud Foundation has recently released 3.5 version, but some of our readers might don’t know What is VMware Cloud Foundation? As we reported in our post during VMworld Barcelona 2018, VMware Cloud Foundation is an integrated software stack, with compute virtualization (VMware vSphere), storage virtualization (VMware vSAN), network virtualization (VMware NSX), and cloud management and monitoring […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware Cloud Foundation

FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2018

FreeNAS has been in development over years. I still remember setting up one of my first iSCSI connections for my ESXi lab with FreeNAS. Yeah, FreeNAS has a long history. This new release has brought in a new UI and some backend updates that we’ll talk about today – FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Freenas

How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – The Easy Way [Tip]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

I’m sure that everyone knows about this tip anyway, but…. You know, folks working with other hypervisors or the ones which do not manage VMware ESXi and vSphere on daily basis, do not know about it so they need help. In this post, we will learn How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – […]

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What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 1, 2019

Starwind Virtual SAN on Linux is here

NVMe SSDs are the fastest storage for consumer laptops for example but exists also as PCIe add-on cards for desktops or servers. Those kind of SSDs are much faster than SATA and SAS SSDs in the data center and will probably replace, sooner or later, the traditional SATA/SAS devices. The storage industry today seeks lower latency and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is NVMe Over Fabrics

What is Veeam Cloud Connect And How To Setup?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 10, 2018

What is Veeam Cloud connect

I don’t think that I have written about Veeam Cloud Connect yet, so this is the post about What is Veeam Cloud Connect? It’s simple. Veeam works with many service providers who allocate some space at their local infrastructures. Veeam customer can then specify this space as a backup target and use it as a remote […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud Tagged With: What is Veeam Cloud Connect

StarWind Latest Update Build and How to Update StarWind Linux Appliance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 7, 2018

StarWind VSAN has a new update which we’ll talk about today, but also we’ll show you that it’s is now dead easy to update existing StarWind appliance running Linux. StarWind continues to progress and packs new features and fixes bugs in every release. I have written about their previous release here which has already brought […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind Latest Update build, StarWind New Build

Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2018

If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

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