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How to Get Started with Ravello Systems – VM Import Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Ravello Systems

Ravello Systems allows many different use cases. Training labs, simulations of production environment or just creating and spinning a couple of VMs from scratch. You can not only use those cloud services through Ravello at a very very reasonable cost but also learn, test or execute different configurations and setups if you don’t have enough resources […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Get Started with Ravello Systems, Ravello VM Import Tool

vRealize Automation 7 Simple install

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

vRealize Automation 7 - simple install

It’s been some time that vRealize Automation 7 has been released and I reported about that in my post, but still haven’t had the chance to test it in the lab. That’s why today’s post. vRealize Automation 7 Simple Install is for today. Know that another type of installation is Enterprise install which is destined […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: vRealize Automation 7, vRealize Automation 7 install, vRealize Automation 7 Simple install

Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

convert physical NT4 system into ESXi 6 VM

This post is a guest post by Richard Robbins who recently did an interesting task – Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0. He contacted me on Twitter asking which would be the good direction to take and then few tweets later he came up with a working solution in his environment. As I haven’t had the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Convert NT4 physical to VM on ESXi 6.0

vSphere Web Client integration plug-in fails

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 28, 2016

vSphere Client Integration plugin

The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This might however be a problem in situations when the OVF file has properties which are visible only through Web client as the “old” vSphere […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: vSphere Web Client integration plug-in fails

How To Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 27, 2016

How-to Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter

This is a usual situation. You connect to vCenter with self-signed certificate installed and you get this warning on your web browser, that the security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. It’s normal as the certificate isn’t really trusted by nobody, but you. And it’s you who gets […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How To Stop the Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter, Self-Signed Cert warning when connecting to vCenter

VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2016

Use this setting to perform machine maintenance operations in a rolling fashion. Increasing this count may decrease the concurrency for View Composer operations for the desktop pool.

Another post focusing on VMware desktop certification exam today. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 – Configure Automated Pools using linked clones. Yes, pool settings, linked clones etc. Good stuff. All exam objectives will be on our VCP6-DTM page (for now it’s work-in-progress). But in order to do that we must first prepare a source (golden image) of that first pool, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 3.1 - Configure Automated Pools using linked clones

Altaro Full Test Restore in a Sandbox

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Altaro Verification of Backup by Restore to Sandbox

Verification of backups is important. Sometimes you can have a backup taken, everything seems to correct, but then when you need to boot the restored VM you have a failure. For a variety of reasons like file corruption etc. Altaro allows to restore a backed up VM to a sandbox where the VM is booted up […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Altaro Full Test Restore

VMware Converter 6.1 Supports Windows 10 and Hyper-V v3 VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware Converter 6.1

VMware Converter 6.1 Released adds possibility to convert (Powered Off) Hyper-V v3 VMs and also compatibility with Windows 10 OS. This is strange as just few weeks ago I tried to convert my laptop running W10 by using the 6.0 version of VMware converter and did not experienced any issues. VMware converter has many possible […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Converter 6.1

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

In today’s post VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6 – Configure Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture we’ll activate one of the newer feature of Horizon View – Cloud Pod architecture. A View Pod cannot cross multiple datacenters, but a federation can be done between PODs where one POD local and one in remote datacenter. Each View pod is an independent entity […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 2.6

Xangati Virtual Appliance – Now With Remediation Capabilities and Native Hyper-V Support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

Xangati Virtual Appliance

Xangati Virtual Appliance now has an automatic remediation capabilities. Monitoring is good, but having a possibility to remediate an issue (a bottleneck) is better. That’s why Xangati’s news saying that they are not only able to monitor and point you to a problem, but also be able to execute a remediate action is an interesting move. A […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Xangati virtual appliance, Xangati Virtual Appliance for vSphere and Hyper-V

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