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What is VMware vMotion?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2017

Active - Standby config of multi-nic vmotion

What is VMware vMotion? It is THE feature, the function, which “hooked” thousands of millions IT guys on the plane for using VMware for their IT infrastructure. It is kind of a holy grail of virtualization where a running VM moves to another host without interruption of service (of with just a few pings lost). I still […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware vMotion

Starwind Web Management Console and vSphere Plugin

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 28, 2017

Over the past several months Starwind was working on web-based management console for their flagship product Starwind Virtual SAN and also on vSphere plugin allowing to manage the whole storage solution from within vSphere Web Client. So in today’s post, we’ll report on those two management products from Starwind. Note that they’re also working on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind vSphere Web Client Plugin, Starwind Web Management Console

How To Reset ESXi Root Password via Microsoft AD

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2019

How to reset ESXi root password via Microsoft AD

When you’re in front of a host where the ESXi root password has been lost, how to reset an ESXi root password might be the first question you’re asking, right? A while back we have posted a way of doing it via VMware Host profiles. But not everyone has Enterprise Plus licensing which includes host […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Videos

Three Simple Steps to Install 3CX Debian Appliance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Request Welcome Email

We have announced the 3CX Debian Appliance a while ago, the product entered into its final stage and is GA now. We have also detailed the steps for creating an USB key with the Installer for MiniPC. In this post, we’ll show the steps required to deploy and configure the product. Update 5 of 3CX for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Efficient Backup Data Management using VembuHIVE file system in BDR Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 8, 2017

Vembu Virtual Drive

Our readers might hear in the past about Vembu BDR Suite. We have published few blog posts and also reviewed the product a while back. In this post, we will focus a little bit more on efficient Backup Data Management using VembuHIVE file system in BDR server. Vembu’s file system called Vembu HIVE, which exposes every […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VembuHIVE file system

How to reset Single Sign-On (SSO) password in vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 1, 2017

Temp password to use for reset

As you might notice, VMware vSphere has now Platform service controller (PSC) with a Single Sign-On (SSO) as a component. It is PSC which allows authentication via vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO). It is not only an authentication broker but also a security token exchange providing a more secure way of accessing your vSphere solutions, so in […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: How to reset Single Sign-On (SSO) password in vSphere

What is VMware Platform Service Controller (PSC)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 24, 2017

External PSCs with two load balancers across two sites

Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I’ve published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration of Windows based vCenter but I think that I have not published enough information about VMware Platform Service Controller (PSC). Hence this post. VMware PSC […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware Platform Service Controller

How to use VMware IOInsight – Free IO Testing Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 24, 2017

VMware IOInsight vCenter Login

Measuring performance of VMs can be a difficult task. Several tools, several methods… VMware has released a new tool which helps to monitor a performance of selected VMs, or rather VMDKs. The tool is called IOInsight. The tool is packaged as a virtual appliance, so the deployment takes just a few minutes. The title of this […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Videos

New 3CX Certifications and Training Online – Get Certified

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

3CX Certifications and Training

If you don’t know 3CX, you should definitely check them out. They’re developing software PBX which runs on Windows, but also on Linux (Check 3CX on Debian ISO ) and they also make their software able to run on low-cost MiniPCs (check  3CX on a $100 MiniPC – Tips ). Today I’d like to talk about the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: 3CX Certifications and Training

What is Zerto Commit Policy?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2017

Zerto Failover with Auto-Commit Policy with 10 min option - Start Failover

I’m sure you’ve heard about Zerto before. ESX Virtualization readers know Zerto’s technology since a long time. Their “no-snapshot” technology when it comes to replication is unique. We have covered this in many posts and installed their product in our lab quite a few times. In today’s post, we will focus on something called Commit Policy – What […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization

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