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Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility – VMware OS Optimization Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2022

VMware has productized one of their best Flings – VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT). If you have been around a long time enough you certainly remember this tool as a Fling, but no more. VMware has officially made it available within the Customer Connect portal. I think this tool is one of the Best Desktop […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 Tagged With: Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility

Veeam Backup and Replication 12 (BETA) – adding Hardened Linux Repository

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

This is our second post about the latest Veeam Backup and Replication 12 (BETA 2) where we’ll be adding a hardened Linux repository as a backup target. In our first post we have proceeded with an installation of Veeam Backup and Replication 12 on the Windows Server system and created/restored our first backup. Now it’s […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication 12

Hardened backup repository on Linux distro – Veeam setup

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

To prevent attackers or insiders destroy your infrastructure backups, you must use something called an immutable backup repository. This rather stranger name means basically that even with admin credentials you cannot delete the backups from that backup repository during certain period of time. It’s hardened backup repository on Linux distro. If you’re a victim of […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Hardened backup repository on linux distro

Free Recovery software for SD Cards, SSDs or HDDs called WinfrGUI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2022

There is free software I want to highlight today. It’s called WinfrGUI and it is a Free recovery software for SD Cards, SSDs or HDDs. The software is able to recover files that are no longer in Recycle bin in Windows. When a file is permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin, it is invisible to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: recover files from SD Cards

How to achieve Rightsizing of VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2021

In this post, we’ll have a look at Rightsizing of VMs. When you have VMs with a lot of vCPUs or with not enough vCPUs configured, the performance is not optimal. Right-sizing is critical to get the best performance. Rightsizing is when you change the amount of resources allocated to a VM to match the […]

| Filed Under: Featured, How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Rightsizing of VMs

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

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

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 4.1 – Describe single sign-on (SSO) deployment topology

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2021

VMware vSphere 7 and higher only supports vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) based architecture where a conversion utility is provided for Windows-based vCenter server and also for external Platform Service Controllers (PSC). Starting vCenter server 7 the deployment topology is fairly simpler than in previous releases as external PSCs are no longer supported. The services provided […]

| Filed Under: Featured, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere signle sign-on

VCP7-DCV Objective 1.6.1 – Describe Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2021

VMware vSphere has a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) allowing automatic VM placement and vMotion. The purpose of DRS is to make VMs “happy” so they run smoother. DRS can be set to automatically move VMs based on its algorithms, or be set to manual and give recommendations for manually moving VMs. This post is part […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

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