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Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2020

I had this question in the comments on one of the posts on the blog and I thought that many users of ESXi Free version might be interested. In fact, yesterday someone asked on Twitter whether the ESXi 7.0 Free version will be available. I checked and it wasn’t. A 404 page at VMware made […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

Get to know ZFS With StarWind

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 1, 2020

A new upcoming webinar which took my attention and I think it’s useful for our readers. It’s tomorrow, 2nd of April, you can register here at this page at StarWind. ZFS is present in many OpenSource storage solutions and it is known for its resilience and reliability. It might be fun to learn some more […]

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

How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2020

VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To Tagged With: disable VMware ESXi complex password, disable VMware ESXi complex passwords

PerfOps Data Platform – Introducing FlexBalancer

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 6, 2019

FlexBalancer Example from PerfOps

PerfOps is a SaaS platform that offers a complete set of tools to optimize and analyze your internet infrastructure. It is a young startup which provides smart data and monitoring services via an innovative and cost-effective product. In this post, we will introduce PerfOps Data Platform and their new FlexBalancer. They have recently announced a […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, How To, Tips

Appliance (OS) root password is expired – vSphere 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

I had this message on one of my vCenter server appliances when I was going to run an update. I’m running my vCenter server in a linked mode in the lab. The messages says that “Appliance (OS) root password is expired“. In fact, just today I noticed that VMware just released a new update – […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Appliance (OS) root password is expired

How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 9, 2019

This comes back on a regular basis. Users asking how they can create an installation ISO with the latest VMware patches in it. In this post we’ll walk you through the process, we will learn How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File. We have created a guide on this […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

In this objective, we’ll show you how to set up the main piece of VMware infrastructure – a vCenter server running on Linux Photon OS – VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Since several years, VMware is trying to break out from Windows dependency and since 6.5 and now with 6.7 the feature set of VCSA […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.6 – Deploy and configure VMware vCenter Server Appliance

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service – Part 2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 18, 2019

today we’ll go and see the steps which need to be done in order to migrate file shares from our old server to a new one. This post will teach you How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service. This is part 2. Please read the Introduction post – How To […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: Migrate Shares and Files

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 18, 2019

Large migrations are not easy and so far, Microsoft did not have an efficient tool to do so. Admins had to use Robocopy at best in order to retain shares, NTFS permissions, and ownership of files and folders. In this post, we will discuss and details How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: How To Migrate Shares and Files

How To deploy VMware VCSA 6.7 U1 in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 31, 2019

Hello readers. Today we’ll deploy VMware VCSA 6.7 U1 in VMware Workstation. We have done a similar video for vSphere 6.5 and we had a few questions from readers about accessing the appliance after configuration so we decided to do a new video which details the process. Additionally, we do the deployment in a very […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: How To deploy VMware VCSA 6.7 U1 in VMware Workstation

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