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Intel Optane 900P Low Price NVMe might Be a Perfect Fit For a Home Lab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Intel Optane SSD 900P from Intel

This news came from a fellow blogger Erik Bussink with who I had a conversation on Twitter last week. Erik has a MEGA homelab and he put me in a right direction when it comes to a choice of NVMe SSD for a VSAN cache tier. We’ll talk about Intel Optane 900p which might be a game […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Intel Optane 900P

Ditch Your HDDs For ACloudA Gateway

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

Cloud Gateway from ACloudA

An interesting concept from a company called ACloudA. Their hardware device replaces spinning media in your server by connecting to remote storage in a public or private cloud, via an iSCSI or SMB3 protocol. The server, which can run any OS, sees it as a local disk. Spinning media is unreliable, generates heat, consumes electricity. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ACloudA Gateway

Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2017

Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability

One of the questions I received recently from a reader was a question concerning how to patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability (HA). If you’re still on Windows based vCenter, on an older version of VMware vsphere (5.5 or 6.0) then you might listen up. As you know, the latest VMware vCenter Server […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Patch vCenter Server Appliance configured with High Availability

Increase Inactivity Timeout on VMware ESXi Host Client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 23, 2017

Increase inactivity timeout vmware esxi host client

One of the challenges when working with individual ESXi hosts not managed via vCenter server might be the Inactivity timeout interval. VMware ESXi host client has a default inactivity interval pretty low so after 15 minutes of inactivity you’ll find yourself locked out and you have to reidentify again. There is a simple way of […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Inactivity Timeout on VMware ESXi Host Client

What is VMware Memory Ballooning?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 18, 2017

VMware Memory Ballooning

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today’s post. We’ll put it again in our Tips Category. You might already pass your VCP exam and (or) you might know this topic well. We can understand that. This topic […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Memory Ballooning

What is VMware vSphere Update Manager?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 3, 2019

VMware vSphere Update Manager - Create a baseline

Today’s topic is another good one which covers VMware technology, and particularly the patching and upgrades. We’ll learn What is VMware vSphere Update Manager and some basic principles to use this free tool, which is part of vCenter. As you know, patching and upgrades are not always the most favorite occupation of any VMware admin. Things […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vSphere Update Manager

VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Disabling Unnecessary Virtual Hardware Devices

This post will try to outline some performance optimization tips for virtual hardware within VMware infrastructure. Performance is one of the topics which is crucial. How far can you go to optimize each and every VM within your infrastructure? There are few guidelines from VMware, we’ll focus on optimization of Virtual machine hardware, the VM’s […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware vSphere DRS

In this post, we will go into details between VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus license. We have already touched a little bit on VMware licensing questions and covered VMware vCenter Standard vs Essentials. But vCenter server and ESXi are different products, with different licensing options. Both software products are part of the VMware vSphere suite. Each […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus, vSphere Standard vs Enterprise Plus

VMware Network Adapter Types

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 25, 2017

VMware virtual machines (VM) can be configured with different network adapter types. Depending on the system you’re running, its version, those adapter types may vary. In this post, I’ll try to explain which type adapter exists. There are some exotic and older virtual network adapters, such as Vlance, or Flexible, but most of the time […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Network Adapter Types

VMware vCenter Server Standard vs Foundation – Differences

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 30, 2022

VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup Simple Configuration

A few months back VMware has changed a little bit the VMware vCenter Foundation offer allowing to have 4 ESXi hosts instead of just 3 previously. This is mainly because customers wanted to run VMware vSAN with 4 hosts with this edition. This post will go into the differences between VMware vCenter Server Standard vs […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vCenter Server Standard vs Foundation

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