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2 Nodes 10GbE Switch-Less Configs from Starwind

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 8, 2017

Starwind Scale-out Systems

Starwind like many other software vendors has jumped into the “Hyperconvergent train”. Starwind Software is known for their flagship product Starwind SAN which is already on v8. But since recently they’re also offering bundles (software + hardware + backup + management). They’re proposing bundles for small, medium or larger business starting with 2 nodes or more, where […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Switch-Less Configs from Starwind

How to Get Started with Ravello Systems – VM Import Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Ravello Systems

Ravello Systems allows many different use cases. Training labs, simulations of production environment or just creating and spinning a couple of VMs from scratch. You can not only use those cloud services through Ravello at a very very reasonable cost but also learn, test or execute different configurations and setups if you don’t have enough resources […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Get Started with Ravello Systems, Ravello VM Import Tool

Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

convert physical NT4 system into ESXi 6 VM

This post is a guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me on Twitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. As I haven’t had the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0

VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware Converter 6.1

VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Converter 6.1

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6

Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

Xangati Virtual Appliance

Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Xangati virtual appliance, Xangati Virtual Appliance for vSphere and Hyper-V

vSphere 6 Training Course at PluralSight

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 18, 2016

There has been a new vSphere 6 Training Course released at Pluralsight. The Author is Greg Shield who covers every single topic of vSphere 6 from clean install, upgrades, managing VMs or configuring advanced networking or HA options and much more. Greg Shields is Author Evangelist with Pluralsight and is a globally-recognized expert on systems management, virtualization, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vSphere 6 training

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 7, 2016

vsphere 6.0 u1b

VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever supports URL-based patching using the zipped update bundle. This is second “patch” release for vSphere 6.0 and many resolved issues had […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b

Run Nested ESXi in AWS or Google with RavelloSystems

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

Ravello Systems

Ravello Systems is a company allowing to use nested virtualization in the cloud. Instead of investing into a costly homelab, you might be interested into their advanced nested virtualization engine allowing you to run nested ESXi host and VMs on the top, through Amazon AWS or Google. Ravello was born in 2011 from folks working at […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Nested ESXi

vRealize Automation 7.0 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

NSX Integration into vRA 7

A big release last week from VMware – A vRealize Automation 7.0 which has been announced during VMworld Barcelona. It took VMware finally several months to release the full product (the demo I saw was just before the Barcelona 2015 event). The product has simplified deployment (single OVA file) and has many architectural changes needing to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vRealize Automation 7.0 Released

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