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Create VMware Mirage Bootable USB Stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Create VMware Mirage Bootable USB Stick ADK components

This post will detail how to create a VMware Mirage Bootable USB stick which then can be used to provision new or restore unbootable systems which were hit by ransomware or virus. There are some requirements to be done before the creation process. You’ll need a Microsoft ADK to be installed on the system, but […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Create VMware Mirage Bootable USB Stick

How to Create a Reference CVD for Base Layer Capture in VMware Mirage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage - Create a reference CVD

Today’s post will detail the creation of a reference Centralized Virtual Desktop (CVD) for base layer capture. This rather complicated saying means that we will save one of our CVDs as a reference CVD. You might ask what is CVD? It is basically our desktop/laptop which we want to protect and manage. CVD means “Centralized […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: VMware Mirage Reference CVD

What is VMware Stretched Cluster?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

We’re adding another definition or tip to our list today – What is VMware Stretched Cluster? We wrote a post in the past teaching How To Configure VMware High Availability (HA) Cluster. But Stretched Cluster is something different as stretched cluster adds an another dimension to the traditional HA cluster – a geographical location. Imagine you have a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware Stretched Cluster?

StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage and Benefits

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 10, 2017

StarWind Virtual SAN has been discussed on this blog quite a few times in the past, but today we’ll talk about the main benefits for customers willing to use StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage. The product is evolving with every release but it’s core features and architecture stays simple and flexible for many scenarios. The fact that compared to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind Fault-Tolerant Storage

Runecast Analyzer Keeps vSphere Infrastructure Problems-Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 10, 2017

Runecast Analyzer

Runecast Analyzer which has been reviewed by our team a few months back (Check the Runecast Analyzer detailed review here). It is a very innovative product which points you to the parts of your vSphere infrastructure which is not compliant with the latest VMware KB articles and might be an issue causing downtime or lead […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer

How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Centralize endpoint

We have set up our VMware Mirage lab in a series of posts recently. While we could do a simple “All-in-One” box installation, we decided to deploy (almost) full VMware Mirage stack with several management servers, separate Mirage server, and separate File server. You can follow the Mirage series on a dedicated blog page – VMware […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To Tagged With: How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage, VMware Mirage

What is VMware Mirage Driver Library?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage series continues today with a bit strange topic. Strange just because I did not know much about this topic just few weeks ago. This proves that I’m far from knowing everything even if I follow close VMware technology and hold several VMware certifications. But let’s move forward as VMware Mirage is a very […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Mirage Driver Library?

VM Replication for High Availability with Vembu BDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 7, 2017

Microsoft VSS for Vembu BDR Replication

Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite (BDR) isn’t new to our readers. The product can backup virtual or physical workloads with a possibility for recovery of full VMs or individual files within those VMs, Application objects such as SQL Server, Microsoft AD objects and other. It has also a fast restore via Quick VM Recovery. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VM Replication for High Availability

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2017

vSphere administrator password

If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: VCSA 6.5 Password Expires

What is VMware CPU Ready?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 30, 2017

VMware CPU Ready metric is used to see a percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU. CPU ready time is dependent on the number of virtual machines on the host and their CPU loads. Usually, to see the values, an “esxtop” command is […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware CPU Ready

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