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VMware vSphere and HyperConverged 2-Node Scenario from StarWind – Step By Step

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2018

An excellent resource PDF providing step-by-step configuration of VMware vSphere  StarWind Virtual SAN has been released by our friends at StarWind. In fact, by following those steps, you’ll be able to configure easily your VMware vSphere and HyperConverged 2-Node Scenario from StarWind. It is the simplest scenario as you only need 2 servers with local storage. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere and HyperConverged 2-Node Scenario from StarWind

Top 5 Useful VMware ESXi CLI Commands

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2024

When working with VMware ESXi and vSphere, there is a time when you have to go into the CLI and fix problems, look for details which you don’t get through the UI or those details would be many clicks away. During those times you might appreciate to know and learn our selection of Top 5 Useful VMware […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Top 5 Useful VMware ESXi CLI Commands

Runecast Analyzer 1.7 Adds VMware vSAN Support and More Visibility into Virtual Infrastructures

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2018

Runecast just released a new version of their flagship product – Runecast Analyzer 1.7. An interesting new vSAN support and new widget in the dashboard which allows you to see the issues by different layers (Management, VM, Compute, network or storage). The product runs in a lab, where I’m running a 2-Node vSAN cluster. Third […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer

How To Test Network Connectivity with a vmkping command in VMware environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2018

A simple quick post this Friday, for people willing to quickly test network connectivity by using the vmkping command. If you’re new to VMware vSphere, you might be not aware of vmkping command or do not know exactly what’s the purpose and use cases. VMKping command is useful when testing network connectivity for vmkernel adapters, used […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vmkping

StarWind Proactive Support for Virtual SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2018

StarWind Virtual SAN which is a cost-effective hyper-converged software solution can be used across Hyper-V, vSphere, KVM and XenServer environments. The solution can be used with native integration (Windows) or running as a VM. We have detailed many times the architecture (see links below article), so today we’ll look a little bit closer to StarWind ProActive […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind ProActive Support

Stratoscale Symphony Runs Natively Or On The Top of VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 8, 2018

Stratoscale Symphony

Public cloud strategy might work for some but might not work for others. If you the one who perhaps invested a lot of money and work into cloud-native apps that now works only in AWS, you might seem to be “locked in” this situation forever. You might be paying astronomical bills for using the AWS […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Stratoscale Symphony

Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 With Any2Any Multi-Cloud

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 6, 2018

Any To Any Multi-cloud

In it’s latest release, Zerto announces a major one with multi-cloud support and some important new features, including useful enhancements of current features. Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0 is a major release of their flagship product. Besides new Azure to Azure replication, Zerto can now do Azure to AWS as bi-directional replication in and out, with all the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

Opvizor Performance Analyzer and Starter Troubleshooting Dashboards for VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Starter ESXi Host troubleshooting

Opvizor Performance Analyzer is a performance monitoring product for VMware vSphere environments. Performance analyzer can monitor vSphere environment as a whole, starting with core infrastructure (ESXi, vSphere) to finish with VMs. When firefighting bad performance of an environment, you need to see an overall picture first, then go deeper and find the root cause. Many […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Opvizor Performance Analyzer

3CX Phone System Free vs Paid

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

3CX Phone System

Over the past few years, I’ve been following 3CX Phone system software development. Their product has matured over the years, packed with more features, Linux and Windows platforms do have feature parity as well. Today we’ll have a look at 3CX Phone System Free vs Paid version, in order to see whether the free version would […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: 3CX Phone System Free vs Paid

Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere Environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

This post will highlight some of the known replication software for VMware VM replication. We will focus on Top 3 VM Replication Software for VMware vSphere. There are a lot of backup/replication vendors out there, but in this post, we’ll pick just 3 of them (including VMware) and highlight some of their features and functions. […]

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