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Securing a virtual DMZ environment using vCloud Networking and Security – Free PDF from VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

New technical PDF from VMware which helps with a design of a DMZ by using software protection that comes with VMware vSphere. By using the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS). The vCNS is a product bundled with VMware vSphere (from Essentials Plus and higher) and vCloud Suite, and it’s destined to secure VMware vSphere environments. vCNS […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vCloud Networking and Security

Top 5 VM performance problems and how to solve them

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 29, 2014

We could discuss Top 5 VM Performance Problems during long hours, but most important problems are usually storage array performance problems and not enough memory in your infrastructure. So when your hosts starts to “fight” for memory and starts to use one of the 4 memory reclamation techniques that VMware uses, then there might be time […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Top 5 performance problems in Virtual Environement

View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 17, 2013

There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here – VMware Horizon Workspace – […]

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NTFS Permissions Reporter to quickly check directory permissions on file servers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows […]

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WordPress Performance Test – Track your plugins first!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

There is a very useful plugin when it comes to track WordPress plugins performance and resource consumption. A P3 Performance Profiler plugin allows you to automatically test the WordPress site and show you the plugin that uses the most of the resources. Usually after installing WordPress, the clean installation needs to be enhanced to fit your needs. The plugins […]

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Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

There is an update on the vSphere 5.1 Hardening guide. As you know, this guide is very good tool to start to harden your infrastructure running vSphere 5.1. There is a newly available Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide. It’s been published through the VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal (VMKP). The VMKP app provides access to […]

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USB Image tool – Free utility for imaging USB sticks

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

When working with physical systems, you usually use tools like Acronis, Norton Ghost etc. In case you need to backup or archive a whole USB stick with all the partitions, you might be interested in this cool tool called USB Image tool, which can create a complete image of an USB stick. Usually when running […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: USB Image tool

VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 2, 2013

After few months in public beta, the VMware Converter 5.1 Standalone has been released. I wrote an article on that – Nice Update VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta) where I introduced the new features, like the support for Virtual Hardware version 9 or GUID Partition Table (GPT) Disk support. Also EXT 4 as an filesystem […]

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Edit VMX file – quick tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

Sometimes there might be some reasons to edit VMX files. Usually in lab testing, you might be editing VMX files more often than the VMX files you have for production VMs. Right? That does not mean that you would not want to learn about some guidelines or good practices on editing those VMX files. The […]

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ESXi Free vs Paid – What are the differences?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Fairly often new people discovering VMware asking these questions: ESXi free vs paid? What’s the difference? While for many folks, VMware certified people, and others, this question (and especially the answer) is obvious, the new people who just discovered virtualization, might want to know exactly. That’s why this post.  At first, you might want to read […]

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