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Under the Hood: What Virtualization 2.0 Looks Like

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I’ve been working for a project for VMware SMB recently. While I’m possibly good at promoting work of others or showing some tips for virtualization admins, it’s quite hard to find some words to promote my work, to do a self-plug… Today’s admins challenges are to maintain the application performance, data security and availability. They […]

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Fighting Over 2000 Spam Comments A Day – Here is How

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

I have been dealing more and more with spam comments lately. Apps for Spammers got smarter and Akismet just can’t handle them all anymore.  Since when I started this blog few years back I had to deal with spam comments. The situation however does become increasingly painful since several months due to more and more […]

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Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool by VMware Labs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware vSphere 5.5 has introduced support for applications which do have special requirements concerning Latency sensitivity. Perhaps it’s your interest and you should know that there is a new free utility at VMware Labs website called Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool. The tool has been released recently to help troubleshoot options concerning application latency. The tool is available […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool.

How to Patch Free VMware ESXi Standalone Host

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

This guide will help folks which are new to virtualization or admins just starting with VMware virtualization, they run ESXi free version without vCenter. How to patch Free VMware ESXi standalone host is a common question I’m getting on regular basis and I though that I document that from the beginning to the end. If […]

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Hands On Labs Presents – EVO:RAIL HOL-SDC-1428

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

There is a new lab at Hands On Labs available for EVO:RAIL. It’s HOL-SDC-1428 and this lab allows to play with the latest technology by VMware. If you don’t already have a HOL account you can create one for free. It’s a good way to explore the different possibilities of EVO:RAIL software without having one. Pretty […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: HOL-SDC-1428, VMware EVO:RAIL demo lab

Free Tool – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client allows Integration of PowerCLI into the Web Client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

New free tool for VMware administrators – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client. The new utility was released by VMware labs recently and allows to execute PowerCLI scripts from within the vSphere web client. The free tool called PowerActions for vSphere Web Client brings also a library of PowerCLI scripts prepared for use. You can add […]

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Free Learning VDP Advanced 5.8 – Online Course by VMware Education

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware has put online new training course for vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced version. As you know the advanced version can backup business critical applications like Exchange, SQL or Sharepoint (Even if still on physical), and lifts many limits of VDP standard. The product has evolved since 5.1 or 5.5 versions, where the 5.5 version […]

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Microsoft Exchange Server performance on VMware Virtual SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

New technical PDF showing Microsoft Exchange Server performance on VMware Virtual SAN. Many customers runs Microsoft Exchange locally at their datacenters and wonder how Exchange would perform. I think the paper comes just in time to show that VSAN can considerably accelerate the Exchange Workflows. The paper is written by Jinpyo Kim (staff engineer in the […]

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VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 Validation Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

This guide helps to do a check of VSAN requirements before and after deployment. VMware engineers used this document internally first in order to validate the VSAN requirements before hitting the “enable VSAN” checkbox. It allows some head scratching on “why am I getting this error?”. If you go through and successfully validate all the […]

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Free Tool for Nested ESXi Labs – ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

There is a free utility called ESXi MAC learning dvFilter released by VMware Labs last week. This utility is provided as a VIB and installs on the physical ESXi host, not on the virtual ESXi hosts. I learned about it by reading posts from William Lam and Andreas Peetz. ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter is kind of […]

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