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Vladan Seget
Vladan Seget
IT Consultant and VMware expert. Vladan is the Executive Editor of ESX Virtualization, a premier technical blog at vladan.fr. Specializing in vSphere infrastructure and data center automation, Vladan holds both VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD certifications. A VMware vExpert since 2009, he provides deep-dive technical insights into virtualization trends, storage, and cloud computing.
Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 7, 2022

VMware Monitoring with SexiGraph – New Release

SexiGraph is open-source community-based software for monitoring vSphere, including V7 U3, vSAN and its APIs. The project leverages a Grafana frontend and is very fast at providing all kinds of vSphere-related data in an appealing visual format. Definitely worth checking out if you want VMware environment data quick and easy on the eyes.
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  • Vladan Seget
  • March 29, 2022

Why VMware Tools v12 brings an important update?

The virtualization world keeps on driving at full speed. VMware recently released a big pack of upgrades to its Tools. Among others, the most interesting updates relate to certain critical vulnerabilities, support for new guest OS products, and, what’s really nice, backward compatibility capabilities with older VMware products.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 15, 2022

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) to optimize desktop and server OS

VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) is a neat piece of software to optimize your on-prem or cloud OS. Originally designed for VMware Horizon, OSOT is fully applicable to Windows desktop and Windows Server. It allows to eliminate unneeded settings, switch off features, clean up older junk from your OS, and otherwise enhance its functionality.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 22, 2022

Microsoft Security Applications New Names and improvements

Microsoft constantly evolves and changes, and so do its products and features. This is especially relevant for the continuous expansion of Azure cloud and its hybrid cloud capabilities. This time, we’ll talk about the changes in names and functionality when it comes to products previously known under the Azure Defender and Sentinel umbrellas.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 3, 2022

Security Tips for VMware vSphere Environments

In a previous article, we shared how to tighten the security in VMware ESXi at the hypervisor level. While that advice is welcome, ransomware can target various infrastructure levels. Particularly, it can target the shared datastores to which your hosts are connected and encrypt that data, rendering other operations impossible.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 26, 2022

Securing VMware ESXi Hosts

You can’t be too close to comfort whenever cybersecurity is involved. Despite ESXi being pretty secure even after out-of-the-box installation, its security can be tightened more. Certain common, baseline hardware elements can be added and several tweaks to ESXi security itself will make all the difference you didn’t know they could.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 11, 2022

How to secure a small VMware environment

When implementing virtualization into your IT environment, you need first to take care of the security of your virtual and physical infrastructure. In the VMware vSphere environment, the vCenter server appliance (VCSA) is a key management element, so should be as secure as possible.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • December 14, 2021

PowerToys for Windows 11 gives you new features and settings

PowerToys have been a part of Windows for quite some time now. However, since Windows 11, new features in all areas are also relevant with the new OS release. PowerToys is a set of freeware system utilities created for advanced users and designed by Microsoft for use on the Windows OS. They exist to change or maximize productivity or alter customization.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 16, 2021

New vSphere Diagnostic Tool utility

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a free utility which is, essentially, a script built for checking vCenter Server. It’s applicable to vSphere 6.5 and higher and used by engineers to isolate a particular issue in your vSphere environment. It’s an early tool, but it already has an extensive checklist it searches your vCenter Server for and can prove quite handy.
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