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Vitalii Feshchenko
Vitalii Feshchenko
StarWind Post-Sales Support Engineer. Vitalii specializes in storage, virtualization, and backup solutions. With expertise in infrastructure implementation and system recovery, he provides technical leadership in optimizing virtualized environments. Vitalii delivers expert guidance on data protection and high-availability infrastructure, focusing on seamless post-deployment support and performance tuning.
Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • January 23, 2025

Deep Dive into VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 9.0 – Part 1: Setting Up the Solution

Start from scratch with SRM 9.0 setup, from installation to configuring protection groups and replication settings.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • January 21, 2025

Deep dive into VMware Site Recovery Manager 9.0 – Creating a Disaster Recovery Site

Get a complete walkthrough of setting up a disaster recovery site with SRM and see how to pair it with your production environment.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • January 20, 2025

Best VMware vSphere ESXCLI Commands

Explore real-world ESXCLI commands that helped solve tricky VMware problems — great for admins tired of endless GUI clicking.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • January 10, 2025

How VMware vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO) works, how to set it up, and why you need it

Explore VMware’s VAIO framework to gain direct access to VM I/O streams, enabling advanced data services like caching and replication.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • November 5, 2024

5 Ways to Extract Data from a VMDK When Your VM Fails 

A failed VM doesn’t have to mean lost data. Explore 5 methods to access and recover the data stored in a VMDK file, using both built-in VMware tools and third-party solutions.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • October 13, 2024

VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 – Technical Overview

Explore the most recent updates and features added in vSphere 8.0 U3, including improvements to lifecycle management, security, and hardware support.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • October 5, 2024

Installing VMware Tools in Different Environments

Master the VMware Tools installation process across various OSes and learn why this small package is crucial for VM performance and management.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • September 9, 2024

How to build a home lab using your PC. Part 2: VMware Workstation

Building a virtualized environment with VMware Workstation is a bit different from the scenario discussed before. Today, I use VMware Workstation 15 Pro – a virtualization platform that supports hypervisor virtualization and allows administrating small VMware infrastructures. Yes, Workstation is a vCenter-like platform, but it has rather limited functionality. Anyway, it allows building a vSphere lab for free! This being said, the solution is good for this article.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • July 3, 2024

VMware vSphere Content Libraries in a Nutshell: Why use Them (or Why Not)

Some time ago, discussing how cool VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is, I briefly mentioned content libraries. That article was just an overview, so I decided not to go into details, saying that some features need their own posts. In today’s article, I’d like to share my hands-on experience with content libraries and help you to decide whether this feature can make your life any easier.
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