Vladan SEGET, Author at ESX Virtualization

ESXi 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 – via VMware Online Repository Plus few other CLI commands

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 25, 2016

Today we’ll learn some useful ESXi CLI commands plus we’ll see a different way that we can upgrade a ESXi 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 – via online repository. Note you don’t have to be paid customer for this, it works for ESXi Free version as well. It’s necessary to open a firewall port on the […]

VMware Horizon View 6.1.1 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2015

A new update to Horizon View 6 with this release of version 6.1.1. I have detailed the new features in my detailed post here, but today the release of Horizon View 6.1.1 fixing few bugs like for example the disk space reclamation. When this was enabled on Windows 8.1 linked clones, space reclamation operations ran […]

Windows 10 Download – Reserve Your Upgrade Gotchas

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 4, 2015

Recent Microsoft patch Tuesday brought a new Microsoft patch which triggers a system message inviting you to reserve your Free Upgrade to Windows 10. Strange behavior you might think. It seems that Microsoft do not have your e-mail in their system just yet as they ask for an E-mail address. Anyway, users of Windows 7 […]

VMware Guest 64 Check – Free Utility To check if CPU can run 64 Bit Workflows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 3, 2015

This article addresses to users willing to use a system with VMware Workstation, Player or Fusion and want to test for a CPU compatibility for 64 bit OSs. A system rather older as new processors all supports 64 bit guest OS. So for those of you who want to use older computer, there is a […]

Free Tool – GParted Live ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

I’m sure that everyone know this tool. But still I want to share me recent experience. You know that with the new hosts I got for my lab there is the Supermicro’s iPMI remote management, and I found myself too lazy after all. All you need to do to attach a GParted Live ISO, then […]

Homelab – Airflow Solar System

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

As you might already noticed, ESX Virtualization lab is located at Reunion Island – a tropical island with not only beautiful beach resorts, amazing trekking possibilities or a very active volcano, but also with local IT shops, local industry or institutions which need that their IT just works. And that’s our role – consultants, IT […]

Windows Server 2016 GUI Install – How to

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 13, 2016

The default install of the Windows Server 2016 (Tech preview 2) do not provide Graphical User Interface (GUI) and even the second option only installs the local administrative tools (Server Manager). Not the traditional desktop that we’re used to having in 2012 R2 or 2008 R2 server systems. So if you take the second option […]

Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Infinio Accelerator 2.0 Released today. What is Infinio? It’s an unique caching solution that only needs some RAM from your hosts to create shared deduplicated caching pool which will accelerate your VMware vSphere environment. With such a cache in place, the storage requests does not need to go all the way down to your NAS, but it’s the […]

Rename computer remotely – [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

One of those “magics” you may want to experiment in the lab or perhaps impress some of your colleges, IT guys within your company, who knows? It’s the function to rename computer remotely. This operation however needs some downtime on the other end as the system will obviously needs to reboot. The fun part on […]

VMware vCenter Server Availability Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2015

With vSphere 6 and the concentration of the different services which runs on the top, vCenter server can become a single point of failure. Not all services depends on vCenter for example. VMware HA can run itself without vCenter just fine, but if you uses Autodeploy for example or vSphere Web client, inventory service… all […]