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Freeware RVTools 3.6 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 24, 2014

New version of Freeware RVtools 3.6 has just been released. The 3.6 version is the latest version which comes after almost one year later of the previous release. I could see the tweets from @rvtools since several months as the developper Rob de Veij was testing the beta releases. The tiny little application (4.5 Megs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Freeware RVTools 3.6 released

New ESXi Security Whitepaper released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

There is a new ESXi security whitepaper which has been released by VMware. The Author is Mike Foley. The paper covers pretty much everything which is security related and its destined to the IT team managing VMware infrastructures and it treats security of the VMware ESXi hypervisor in over 25 pages. Quote from the source: […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi Security Whitepaper

New Book – Learning PowerCLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2014

There is a new book for VMware administrators willing to enter the learning process of PowerCLI. This is not the first book on PowerCLI as I know at least another one which I reviewed a while back –  PowerCLI Book (VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference) If you’re not aware, check this post. The book I’m referring […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VMware vCloud Connector (VCC) now free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware has made vCloud connector available as a free tool. In the past there were two versions of VCC, which one of them was paid one. The core and advanced versions were merged together in the version 2.6 to be available as free download. The architecture is still based on server node and client node […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VSAN Availability is Known – March 2014, and shall have up to 16 nodes support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

VMware VSAN shall be released in March 2014. This is close! We’re already in Mid-February. VMware VSAN is currently in public Beta and all beta customers can apply for 20% discount. It’s limited time discount on any product purchase of 10 licenses or more. (valid until June 2014). VMware VSAN is licensed per CPU. If […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VSAN Availability

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect to prepare VCP 5.5 if you don’t have homelab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

If you don’t own homelab or Powerfull PC, or you cannot break production environment (obviously in most cased you can’t) you have another option to prepare for your VCP exam. This offering is called VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] – Lab Connect allows to get 30 hours of preconfigured lab environment Online. The lab environment consists […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 updated to match the latest vSphere 5.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 3, 2014

VMware has released recently the latest update to vCenter Support Assistant 5.5, which is a virtual appliance (650 Mb) allowing to configure. The product is free to download, but can only be used for clients on active SNS or for clients buying support per-incident. vCenter support shows as a vCenter plugin through vSphere web client and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

vFLOWer Toolkit – a solution that converts vCO packages into versionable source code (XML) and vice versa

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 19, 2020

Interesting solution for sharing vCenter Orchestrator Workflows has been developed by ByteLife. The solution can convert vCO packages into versionable source code in XML and back. Even if vCO is one of the less known products of VMware vSphere and even I’m not a vCO expert AT ALL, this solution has took my attention as […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Best Practices for Virtualizing AD on VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 30, 2014

Virtualizing business critical applications, like Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must be done right and with caution. Windows Server 2012 has introduced new feature called VM-Generation ID, which enables the underlying ESXi to expose a 128bit counter within the guest VM. This allows the VM to be aware that the VM has been restored from snapshot or […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: best practices virtualization Microsoft AD, vSphere and AD

How to tag disk as SSD VMware esxi 5.x and 6.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 18, 2015

The vSphere 6.0 web client allows easier possibility. Through a GUI if you have vCenter installed. So How to Mark local disk as SSD disk ? Connect to your vCenter > Go to Hosts and clusters > Select a Host > Manage > Storage > Select disk which you want to tag as SSD. You can click to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how to tag disk as ssd vmware esxi 5.x

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