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Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector

VMware Mirage system has built-in deduplication and compression. In a WAN environment which has remote sites usually with limited bandwidth connection to the main site, it is usefull to enable a feature called Branch Reflector and in this post we will detail Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector. Using Mirage branch reflectors promotes efficient […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector

Deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation 2017 Tech Preview

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 28, 2023

Deploy VMware vCSA with VMware Workstation

This one will interest people which want to test the deployment scenarios of VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 in a lab without needing a dedicated ESXi host. Recently released VMware Workstation 2017 (Tech Preview) has brought a new feature allowing the deployment of VMware vCSA 6.5 via this product. So this post will detail […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation 2017

How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer

VMware Mirage Guide page is getting more and more finished. Today, we’ll add another post which will teach us How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer? You can create several App layers and those App layers can be applied to an endpoint or a group of endpoints (collection). We can imagine several scenarios, such as […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: VMware Mirage App Layer

VMware Workstation 2017 Tech Preview Cool Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Tech Preview Workstation 2017

UPDATE:  VMware is releasing their flagship products for desktop virtualization – VMware Workstation 14 And VMware Fusion 10. Note that part of the release is also VMware Player, which is free (and paid also). Upgrade links:  VMware Workstation Upgrade Shopping links:  VMware Workstation 14 And VMware Fusion 10. Also Workstation Player Pro and Fusion Pro. VMware Workstation 2017 Tech preview made its apparition last week. We […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 2017

How to Capture a VMware Mirage Application Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Capture VMware Mirage Application Layer

Before we will walk you through the process, we’d like to point out few things which should be respected when working with VMware Mirage Reference Machines. While currently up to a version of Windows marked 1607 are supported by VMware Mirage (not the Creators update just yet), there are few other guidelines, such as disabling automatic updates […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Capture a VMware Mirage Application Layer

How to Apply a VMware Mirage Base Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

How to Provission a New Endpoint with VMware Mirage Base Layer?

VMware Mirage series continues today with a new post called How to Apply a VMware Mirage Base Layer. The workflow is simple. Previously we have deployed our Mirage cluster with Two Mirage Management servers, one Mirage Server, Separate SQL server, File Server. We have also created a base layer with the essential corporate applications and settings. In […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: How to Provision a New Endpoint with VMware Mirage Base Layer?

How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Capture a Base Layer

During our previous post we have created a Reference CVD with all the main corporate software installed, then we launched the Create a Reference CVD assistant. In this post we will teach you How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer. The reference machine was centralized to a reference CVD (centralized virtual desktop) on the VMware Mirage […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer

How to Restore Deleted User Account From Microsoft Active Directory With Vembu BDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 18, 2017

Restore AD user with Vembu

Vebmbu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite ( Vembu BDR) is a backup solution for VMware, Hyper-V. Today we will focus on one of the most wanted features which allow restoring a deleted user account from Microsoft Active Directory (AD). We will use Vembu Backup for VMware vSphere to restore an AD object. In this post, […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How to Restore Deleted User Account From Microsoft Active Directory With Vembu BDR

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

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