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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

New Release of Paragon Hard Disk Manager Pro 2011. Paragon has recently updated Hard Disk manager and I had the opportunity to give it a try. First of all, the product runs on desktop OS only, if you want to use it on Server Systems, you can try Hard Disk Manager Server Edition. Since I […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Migrate Os to SSD, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 - Migrate Os to SSD

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup

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

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

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

Top 10 Best Practices for VMware Data Protection

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Free Webminar with Eric Siebert – Top 10 Best Practices for VMware Data Protection. Usually I’m always missing webminars, because the time zones between Europe and United States. There is a new webminar scheduled with Eric Siebert which is scheduled for March 16th. The duration of 1h. Featured Speaker: Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert Join Eric […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: backup VMs, Top 10 best practices for data protection

Testing Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

I was given an opportunity to test the newly released Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011. The software is multi-purpose tool which can do several tasks useful for power home user or small business enterprise. It’s a partition, backup/copy multiboot, disk defrag tool…. When you first start the software you have a basic view, with all […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite

How-to enable verbose logging in VDR – VMware Data Recovery

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

A quick post about how to enable verbose logging in VDR. Update: VDR has been replaced in vSphere 5.1 by VDP (vSphere Data Protection). The product is based on EMC’s Avamar code and present an interesting upgrade for existing customers which are upgrading from vSphere 4.x where vSphere Data Protection (VDP) was bundled. But to transition […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR verbose logging, VMware Data Recovery

If you’re trying to use Windows CIFS with VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you’re trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It’s an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, Vmware Backup solution, VMware Data Recovery

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