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What is VMware Instant Clone Technology?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

VMware Horizon View 7 - Instant Clones

Today’s quick tip will talk about clones, cloning, but not traditional way, slow, slow, slow. We will expose What is VMware Instant Clone Technology and how that works in today’s modern data centers. Instant clone technology has been announced as project Fargo back during VMworld 2014 and first production systems started using it within Horizon View […]

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What Are VMware Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters (vPMCs)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2017

This kind of strange name is simple to explain, but some people might not know about it. Hence this post. In this post, we will talk about What Are VMware Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters (vPMCs). This feature can be enabled on a per-VM basis (by editing a virtual hardware of a VM) and allows the […]

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What Is VMware User Environment Manager?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware User Environment Manager

With so many VMware products around sometimes, people do not know which product is for what usage. It is normal. One cannot follow all of those VMware products whether it is for data center virtualization, end user computing or products for cloud computing. So this post will simply explain What Is VMware User Environment Manager and […]

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What Is VMware Identity Manager?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Identity Manager Reviewer Guide

Today we will explain to our audience What Is VMware Identity Manager. One might think that it is a new VMware product, but no, it’s just re-named VMware Workspace Portal. VMware Identity Manager has two editions. Standard and Advanced. VMware Identity Manager Advanced Edition includes AirWatch device registration for one-touch SSO from smartphones, tablets, and Windows 10 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What Is VMware Identity Manager

What is VMware Mirage Driver Library?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage series continues today with a bit strange topic. Strange just because I did not know much about this topic just few weeks ago. This proves that I’m far from knowing everything even if I follow close VMware technology and hold several VMware certifications. But let’s move forward as VMware Mirage is a very […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Mirage Driver Library?

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2017

vSphere administrator password

If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: VCSA 6.5 Password Expires

What is Veeam Proxy?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 26, 2017

Veeam Backup Proxy

Have you ever wondered what is Veeam backup proxy? Veeam proxy is one of the main components of Veeam Backup and replication. In small environments when installation is “All-In-one” machine, the Veeam Proxy gets installed on the same box as the rest of the components. In larger environments, the backup proxy role is assigned to […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Tips Tagged With: What is Veeam Proxy

What Is VMware Mirage?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Architecture

VMware Mirage is a product which is not well known among virtualization community, and it’s a shame as the product has more potential than you think. We’ll try to do several posts which will highlight some of the advantages over traditional image backup tools such as Acronis, Veeam Agent for Windows and others. Because it […]

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What Is VMware Virtual NVMe Device?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2017

With VMware vSphere 6.5 there was also a new introduction of VMware Virtual NVMe Device. Non Volatile Memory Express stands for NVMe. In this post, we will discuss what is it and what is good for. Check out our VMware vSphere 6.5 detailed page with How-to, news, videos, and tutorials. Virtual NVMe Device is new virtual […]

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How VMware HA Works?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware HA cluster

VMware HA is a base building blocks of VMware Infrastructure. Within this post, we’ll try to explain with simple words, to everyone, how it works. It is a definition post, so for VMware admins, there won’t be much new for you and you might not be interested, as this post is destined to all NON-VMware […]

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