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vCenter Server Versions Numbers – How to find?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 15, 2016

vCenter Server Build Number

Here is the thing. You need to check your vCenter server version. How do you proceed? There are many ways to do it. You can view this information through vSphere C# client, vSphere web client or through the CLI, PowerCLI….  But there are also tools which can be used to show both at the same […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCenter Server Versions Numbers - How to find?

VCP6-CMA Objective 1.4 – Configure vRealize Automation Settings

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

Adjust Concurrency Limits and Timeout Intervals

Another topic today towards VCP6-CMA Certification exam. Today’s topic for VCP6-CMA Objective 1.4 – Configure vRealize Automation Settings. The exam is based on the 6.2 version of vRA, but I think the exam topics will evolve over time as the latest vRA 7 has been released. For now, passing the exam, according to the source, requires […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VMware ESXi Command List – Maintenance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 1, 2016

VMware ESXi commands - Maintenance mode

Today another post of the series ESXi Command List. The title says it all. We’ll have a look at different options to reboot ESXi from a command line and we’ll talk a bit about maintenance mode. You should always put hosts into maintenance mode when you do reboots, firmware updates, apply ESXi updates (most patches require the […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware ESXi Command List - Maintenance

How To Enable Sparse Swap on VSAN [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 29, 2016

VMware Sparse Swap - How to Enable

As you know VM Swap file only exists when VM is running. Powered On. I’m currently testing an AF VSAN cluster in the lab with 2 hosts + Witness, where the witness is running on a third host (kind of Remote office scenario), and one of the things that allow saving, even more, space on your […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Sparse Swap on VSAN

VCP6-CMA Study Guide Objective 1.3 – Configure and Administer vCloud Connector

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

VMware vCloud Connector

Another topic towards VCP6-CMA Exam – Objective 1.3 – Configure and Administer vCloud Connector. The exam – 2V0-631 – is 100 min long and has 85 questions. The passing score is 300. Check further updates and details on VMware Certification page. What is vCloud Connector? It is a component running within vCD infrastructure which transfers workloads […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-CMA Study Guide Objective 1.3 - Configure and Administer vCloud Connector

Upcoming 3CX Phone System v15 with NGIX instead of IIS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 23, 2016

3CX Phone System Launch v15 Live

3CX phone system v15 is in preparation (currently Beta) and there are quite major architectural changes and new features in preparation. The Upcoming 3CX Phone System v15 will have an NGIX web server (instead of IIS) and it will have a completely new management console. The list of changes is long as the company has been […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

VMturbo Operations Manager Review [Sponsored]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 6, 2017

Deployment of VMturbo

Readers of this blog know VMturbo quite well. It’s been several years that this startup company expanding very fast. VMturbo Operations Manager is regularly updated, packed with new features and having the possibility to be installed not only on VMware or Hyper-V but also on Citrix, Redhat, Openstack or Nutanix. You could check one of the latest […]

| Filed Under: Reviews, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMturbo Operations Manager Review

Nutanix Brings Interesting Offer for SMBs with Nutanix Xpress

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Nutanix Xpress Specifications

Nutanix hyper-converged solutions were quite an expensive solution so far, for small businesses. That’s why many SMBs and very small SMBs turned to other solutions (VSAN, Starwind or Stormagic) which allow 2-Nodes + witness configurations. Things are changing as Nutanix announced Xpress a few weeks back. Nutanix Brings Interesting Offer for SMBs with Nutanix Xpress, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Nutanix Xpress

Infinio Accelerator 3.0 Now on VAIO Framework with up to 1,000,000 IOPS per host

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Infinio Accelerator 3.0 - Top 10 VMs with the most cache hits

Infinio releasing today already the third release of their acceleration product. I have covered the previous release in my detailed post here. The Infinio Accelerator 3.0 can accelerate workloads on SAN, NAS, DAS, for VSAN, VMFS, vVols (includes HCI) and it uses RAM and SSDs caching. Infinio Accelerator 3.0 Now on VAIO Framework with up to 1,000,000 […]

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PowerCLI Essentials – New Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2016

PowerCLI Essentials by Chris Halverson

There is a new PowerCLI Book which has been released recently. The author is Chris Halverson and the name of the book is PowerCLI Essentials and it is destined to beginners to intermediate administrators. Usual audiences are VMware Admins or Windows admins that are working with VMware virtualization technologies all the days long. The book covers […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: PowerCLI Essentials - New Book

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