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VMware ESXi 7.0 U3a update released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

There is a new patch update ESXi 7.0 U3a that has been released by VMware. This patch fixes a PSOD issue that had been reported after the release of the original U3. The release notes can be found here. Update: As you may be aware, we have identified critical issues following the vSphere 7.0 U3 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: ESXi 7.0 U3a

Uptime 2021 – Not just another online conference

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Uptime 2021 from Runecast is NOT just another conference online. Get deep-dive TECH TUTORIALS, BEST PRACTICES & PROACTIVENESS, and BUSINESS INNOVATIONS. The conference covers hybrid cloud infrastructure management, security compliance with a focus on vulnerability management, issue remediation, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity. Not marketing fluff. Just tech – straight from IT trailblazers, VCDX, and vExperts. That’s […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Uptime 2021

Upgrade VMware ESXi to 7.0 U3 via command line

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

This is a quick VMware ESXi upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3 via a command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to quickly download and upgrade your ESXi host in case you are NOT using a vCenter server AND your hosts are without internet access. Interesting fact as I was testing other methods, as usual, and one […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Upgrade VMware ESXi to 7.0 U3

FREE PDF Download of VMware VCP-DCV7 Study Guide Now Available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VCP7-DCV Study Guide is a Free community study guide helping to pass the latest VMware VCP7-DCV Certification exam (2V0-21.20). After several months of work earlier this year, we have covered all the chapters from VMware blueprint. Those chapters were so far as individual posts on my dedicated WordPress Page VCP7-DCV here. Today, I’m happy to […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: FREE VCP Study Guide

VMware Free Utility – Set up alerts from multiple vCenter Servers directly to your desktop

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 30, 2021

A new free tool from VMware Fling site is out. I have blogged in detail about this tool at 4sysops.com website here. Check it out. This tool is a standalone desktop application that you install on your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop/laptop. Then by configuring the connections (datas are encrypted after on the local disk) […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tool VMware, Free VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere, vSphere

How to ensure security compliance for PCI DSS – The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard – Get Your Copy – Free Download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 19, 2021

If you’re working for a merchant that accepts or processes payment cards, you must comply with the PCI DSS. You as an admin will need to make your company’s IT systems compliant with the PCI DSS standard. PCI DSS is a standard used by the payment industry. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI […]

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VCP-DCV Explain shares, limits, and reservations (resource management) – Objective 5.1.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2021

When you do over-provisioning on ESXi host, on memory, and CPU,  you basically need a tool that makes sure that the VMs get the correct amount of resources. Let’s say we have a VM that needs to get 3500MHZ (Reservation) and make sure that another VM for testing never gets more than 1000MHZ (Limit). The […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips

VCP7-DCV Objective 2.1 – Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2021

Describe the role of vSphere in the software-defined data center (SDDC) is a large topic. In this post, we’ll describe some bases and talk about SDDC in general, not technical. This post is a part of a free Study Guide when preparing to pass the VMware VCP-DCV certification exam. In our free guide, we cover […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere in the software-defined data center

StarWind VSAN with ZFS Details

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 29, 2021

StarWind Virtual SAN uses Linux OS for the underlying VSA for several releases. Part of each VSA is also ZFS. In this post, we’ll have a look at some advantages of ZFS if you’re not aware of them, when you’re looking for a storage solution. Most likely you’ll already know what ZFS is and that […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind ZFS

FREE VMware VCTA Study Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 14, 2021

Some of our readers perhaps noticed that I have put on a VCTA study guide. It’s been a couple of month and today I have received a great document from Valerio Passeri called VCTA Study Guide (direct link to my Dropbox folder shared for ALL where you’ll find the guide and also other PDFs useful […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCTA study guide

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