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How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation [LAB]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

This is lab time -:). Normally you don’t do that on your production deployment. This is a guide on How to install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation and see the different configuration options within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5.  Yes, As you know, we have VMware vSphere 6.5 in GA state (General Availability), […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 5, 2017

How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 Easily

One of the methods of upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 is via ISO (or CD-Rom). Most of you probably don’t use much CD-ROMs and CDs, but servers, especially in small client’s environments usually don’t have KVM, iPMI, ILO, Drac… so one of the options is still to upgrade via CD-ROM. I also recorded a short […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 via ISO

VMware vSphere 6.5 Released – Start Your Download Engines

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 16, 2017

VMware vSphere 6.5 - VM encryption - Apply policy to some VMs

VMware vSphere 6.5 Released today!!! Start your download engines. The release brings all the new features that have been announced, plus even one which has been only a tech Preview. It is the vSphere Predictive DRS, which uses integration between vROPs where vROPs calculates and predict VM CPU and RAM usage. The predictions are based on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere 6.5 Released

VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing PDF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2017

VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing Guide

There has been new VMware vSAN 6.5 Licensing paper released. As the offer evolved and the 6.5 of vSAN (now with small “v” have you noticed ?) product release is imminent, VMware is taking care of pushing the necessary information out. As you know, VMware VSAN 6.5 has new technical features too. The 6.5 release […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

How to Hot-Clone a VM and upload to Ravello Cloud

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

When willing to upload a VM to Ravello cloud, you might want not to shut down your production VM, because as you know, you only can upload VMs that are not running. What to do? There is a way to do it and I’ll show you how. Basically you’ll need VMware Converter Standalone and clone […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Hot Clone a VM, How to Hot-Clone a VM and upload to Ravello Cloud

Starwind Storage Appliance Protects up to 4 disk failures

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Starwind Storage Appliance

Starwind software is well known for their Virtual SAN software I have talked about on several occasions, and newly also about their Hyperconverged appliances (hardware+software) which are pre-configured with your options by Starwind engineers as a “ready-to-ship” systems. But at Starwind they also have another interesting product which provides just storage – Starwind Storage Appliance […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind Storage Appliance

Stratoscale Symphony – converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Stratoscale Storage

Stratoscale Symphony is a hyper-converged solution allowing you to built your own private cloud. Their solution has converged compute, storage and networking with automation and management. It is also multi-tenant. Think of it as a full VMware stack with ESXi, VSAN, and vCloud Director….. but running OpenStack and KVM Hypervisor based. They’re using commodity hardware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Stratoscale Symphony

How-to Update Altaro VM Backup Software

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 9, 2019

How-to update Altaro VM Backup

I was checking the different upgrade options on different backup solutions I’m testing in my lab, and one of them is Altaro. Readers of our blog know that I work in collaboration with different software partners and vendors, to review their products, or to simply report on their features. To see how they behave in […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to Update Altaro VM Backup Software

VMworld Barcelona 2016 Best Moments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

VMworld Barcelona 2016 - VMUG Party

After a long travel home, I’m still full of excitement, full of impressions and good moments from this year’s VMworld Barcelona 2016. Contrary to other years VMworld this time VMware has announced more “important stuff” here in Europe. VMworld Barcelona 2016 uncovered VMware vSphere 6.5, VSAN 6.5, but also, more importantly (for some) the new […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMworld Barcelona 2016

VMware VSAN 6.5 – What’s New?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 5, 2017

VMware vSAN 6.5 announced

VMware VSAN 6.5 has been announced! During VMworld US there wasn’t any vSphere 6.5 information coming out. I mean, we were expecting the vSphere 6.5 to come out one day or another, but the information could only be shared today. Here we go. VSAN 6.5 is the 5th generation of VSAN! The 6.5 release of VSAN brings […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware VSAN 6.5

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