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Vladan Seget
Vladan Seget
IT and Virtualization Consultant. Vladan is the founder, and executive editor of the ESX Virtualization Blog at vladan.fr. He is a VMware VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD, and has been a vExpert from 2009 to 2023.
Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • May 11, 2023

Use VMware Power Actions to run PowerCLI Scripts from vSphere Client

Automate and execute complex VMware PowerCLI administrative tasks via Power Actions Fling.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 18, 2023

VMware Cluster Rules Manager (CRM) Fling – cool tool to manage DRS rules

vSphere DRS is a super useful workload management feature in vSphere. The new Cluster Rules Manager (CRM) VMware Fling takes one step further, allowing to manage vSphere DRS rules and related features from a separate purpose-built UI.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 4, 2023

How to upgrade older versions of vSphere to the latest vSphere 8.0 the right way

There are a few things to know about upgrading from vSphere 6.5 and older versions to the latest one.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 23, 2023

Use cases for Raw Device Mapping (RDM), Persistent Memory (PMem), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)

Everything depends on your organization’s needs and goals. VMware, like other big virtualization vendors, supports a multitude of popular and proprietary technologies related to storage performance. It can be quite confusing which one to choose when, so we’ve prepared a succinct blog post for you to follow to optimize your IT infrastructure.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 14, 2023

VMware vSphere Alert Center 1.1 Fling – retrieve and get notified about your vCenter server(s) alerts

IT admins receive lots of emails daily, so it is not surprising that occasionally some important vSphere notifications get lost in all the fuss. Fortunately, vSphere Alert Center, a VMware Fling app, provides a simple solution for such issues.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 28, 2023

How to Identify where VMware ESXi is installed – on USB, SD, HD or PXE

Sometimes, especially in a new environment, you may need to quickly find out where your ESXi hypervisor is installed. Whether it’s on a USB stick, SD card, local disk, or booting over the network via PXY, there are a few methods to identify the location correctly.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 19, 2023

VMware Imager 2.1 to automate install and deployment VM images

People like to oversimplify the comparison of any two things, but this is not as apparent when it comes to software. VMware Imager Fling and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) can both automate VM image deployment. However, configuration and requirement differences reveal that they are, in fact, more suitable for different use cases.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • December 6, 2022

Why cold migrations of VMs in vSphere 8.0 is over 3 times faster?

VMware introduced a number of enhancements in vSphere 8.0, including updates for vMotion. Most notably, the speed has been improved for both hot and cold migrations. However, VMware claims that cold migration is now x3 times faster than it was before. This is a positive development since previously, migration would take up too many hours.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 17, 2022

What is new in VMware ESXi 8.0 – Installation, Configuration, User Interface

While VMware has been overhauling and stepping up in all arias of its vSphere environment over the last decade, it’s been sort of looking over its hypervisor. The recent VMware ESXi 8.0 has seen some new introductions here and there. Most notably, improvements are seen in its installation, configuration, and user interface (UI).
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