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VMware Free Utility – Set up alerts from multiple vCenter Servers directly to your desktop

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 30, 2021

A new free tool from VMware Fling site is out. I have blogged in detail about this tool at 4sysops.com website here. Check it out. This tool is a standalone desktop application that you install on your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop/laptop. Then by configuring the connections (datas are encrypted after on the local disk) […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tool VMware, Free VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere, vSphere

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.6 – Describe and differentiate among vSphere, HA, DRS, and SDRS functionality

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

Today we’ll detail another objective towards VCP-DCV 2019 Certification – Objective 1.6 – Describe and differentiate among vSphere, HA, DRS, and SDRS functionality. We won’t be able to cover everything about those technologies in a single post – make sure to read the PDF documentation to know everything inside out for the exam. The VMware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: and SDRS functionality, DRS, HA, vSphere

vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite introduced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

The bar was raised today to level 5 with new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. Of course there is many new features introduced which you might read on all the other blog post articles, but I will choose some of them which is interesting in my point of view. Some of the features for the SMB market […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware Storage Appliance, VMware vSphere 5, VSA Manager, vSphere, vSphere 5

Home Lab Gear: Cisco SG300-10 Layer 3 switch gets even better

By Andy | Last Updated: May 25, 2019

Home Lab Gear: Cisco SG300-10 Layer 3 switch gets even better This is a guest post by Andy Grant. Vladan has previously covered this great little SMB switch from Cisco in his post My homelab – The Network design with Cisco SG 300 – a Layer 3 switch for €199. Cisco has just released the long […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: CDP, Cisco SG300, firmware, home lab, vSphere

vMotion for long distance… cool. VMware and vSphere is already in the Sky..

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

vMotion Certified for 200 Kilometers by VMware Now it’s just been certified by VMware that the long distance vMotion is officially supported by VMware. The maximum distance is 200 Kilometers. That’s perfect because our Island has about this distance. From St Denis to St Pierre (Two capitals) there is only about 80 Kilometers… -:). There […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Long Distance vMotion, VMotion, vSphere, vSphere 4

30% Greater Consolidation in vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 10, 2009

vSphere 4 offers 30 % greater consolidation. If in your existing ESX Server infrastructure you were able to achive some consolidation ratios. Then if you’re going for the vSphere this year you’ll be able to gain 30% more consolidation ratio….. … So if you’re an existing customer today and you have a 100 host deployment […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere, vSphere 4

Connecting iOmega 2T to an ESX host

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 21, 2017

Some of you might think to buy a NAS for you ESX home lab. There is one cute little device I had a chance to play with recently. It’s the iOmega StorCenter Pro iX2. The cool think is that even this little device which you can found in a store for 200 Euros, is on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Homelab NAS, NAS for Homelab, NAS Storage, vSphere

vNetwork Distributed Switch – new feature of vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

One would have to live under the rock not knowing Eric Sloof.… Eric is VMware Certified Instructor and great blogger who do not hesitate to post as often as possible to keep us updated with great news and how-to’s. He is one of my favorite bloggers… -:) In one of his latest posts he is […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: vNetwork Distributed Switch, vSphere, vSphere 4

ESX Server Independant disk access mode, persistent and nonpersistent modes

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 27, 2011

One of the questions I was looking around as an ESX server learner, was to find out what is the difference between Persistent and Nonpersistent mode. Normal disks are included in snapshots. In most cases, this is the setting you want ?with Independent deselected. Independant disks = no snapshots possible. The think to know is […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, nonpersistent disk, vSphere

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