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ESXi 7.x to 8.x upgrade scenarios

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 6, 2023

This is the time to upgrade VMware ESXi 7.x to 8.x. No reason to tell you that you should fulfill certain requirements before the actual upgrade. Your environment with your backup/monitoring applications should be fully compatible with VMware ESXi 8.0 and vSphere 8.0. Your hardware should be on VMware HCL etc. You should also do […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: ESXi 7.x to 8.x upgrade scenarios

Veeam Bare Metal Recovery Without using USB Stick (TIP)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

This tip comes from Nico Stein, a fellow Veeam Vanguard. I saw his presentation during Veeam Summit 100 in Prague, but I said to myself that I won’t publish it before I test it. And that’s why this post (and a video). In fact, it is good that I tested it by myself because EasyBCD […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos, Windows Server 2022 Tagged With: Veeam Bare Metal Recovery Without using USB

A really FREE VPN that doesn’t suck

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2023

You want to surf anonymously on the Internet without spending a dime, but also avoiding seeing your data personal scattered in the nature? There is a solution that comes from Bright VPN.. As you know, there are many free VPN services, most offer advantages that aren’t really good, with rather slow speeds and a number of servers […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Tips Tagged With: A really FREE VPN

Problems with Overprovisioning VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 20, 2022

When dealing with overprovisioning VMs, we must first understand the meaning, because while we talk about overprovisioning VMs, we might not talk about the same thing while using the same wording. Usually “overprovisioning” means that you configure (provision) more than you have. Over-provisioning does not lead to contention always, but it could lead to contention. […]

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Patch your ESXi 7.x again

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Another day with another critical VMware ESXi 7.0 U3g patch was released a couple of days ago. This time again you can get the latest ISO here. VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0U3g – Download. The latest release is fixing issues only, but you should patch your ESXi 7.x again. There are no new features included. […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: Patch your ESXi 7.x again

Patch Your vSphere with VMware Tools 12.1 Now – important security released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware is releasing a new version of VMware tools 12.1 that fixes important security flaws. In fact, m malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine. VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page. The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware Tools 12.1.0

Let’s Encrypt for VMware ESXi standalone hosts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

A very cool solution for standalone ESXi hosts used in production or home labs that I want to report today. In fact, I have received a quick email from Horst Fickel, which is one of our readers, letting me know that he and his friends have released a lightweight VIB package for VMware ESXi which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Let's Encrypt for VMware ESXi

Patch Standalone VMware ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware has released recently the latest patch for ESXi 7. A few weeks earlier (in May) we reported about VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U3e released – another maintenance release fixing vSphere with Tanzu. You can either update your ESXi hosts via vSphere Lifecycle Manager, or if you do not use vCenter for managing your environment, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Patch Standalone ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version, Patch Standalone VMware ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version

How VMworld shaped my IT carreer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 22, 2022

VMworld Barcelona 2016 - VMUG Party

VMworld for me has been an awesome experience. It allows you to take some action and explore new products and technologies, and meet people which will explain how it works and what it brings as an advantage over older, legacy technology. Many new products are always announced during VMworld/VMware EXPLORE events. Schedule builder is now […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization

Tutorial Sessions in the Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Tutorials sessions VMware EXPLORE

Just a quick update about this year’s VMware EXPLORE 2022 which is an in-person event this year. (Online too, so Hybrid event). VMware just unveiled a Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022. Let’s see and have a look and check out what you can expect. It seems that there are also some Tutorial sessions in the […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Tutorial Sessions in the Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022

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