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Nice Update – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware vCenter Converter 5.1

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 supports Virtual Hardware version 9, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 and RedHat 6.0. Also, support for EXT4 as a linux file system is supported. First to note, the software is still in beta, but available as a Free Download (VMware-converter-en-5.1.0-1023810.exe : File size:170 MB). Update: 24/06/2013 – Check out my […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff

Top Virtualization Blog 2013 Results – my thoughts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

This year’s Top Virtualization Blog 2013 competition was even more crazy than last year. With many new blogs out there, many new bloggers who did a great job this year and made it to the Top 25 blogs. My blog moved up to 16th place -:) which is incredible with all those quality blogs out there. I’m […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Top Virtualization Blog 2013

VMware Best Practices on NFS – get this new PDF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 22, 2013

This new whitepaper from VMware discusses best practices for design and deployments on NFS. Whether you’re using iSCSI or NFS, both protocol and storage devices must be correctly configured to obtain the best performance. In this whitepaper VMware Best Practices on NFS  are discussed. You’ll learn what’s the best ways to setup load balancing. If […]

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Yes, the New RVTools 3.5 is out…. Download it -:)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

RVTools new version has been released by Rob de Veij at Robware.net. He kept pinging through his twitter account about his testing of the new version for few weeks and yesterday he released the final version of RVTools 3.5. It’s a tiny .NET application (4 Mb msi package) which installs in seconds and which offers […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: RVTools

VMware Workstation 9.0.2 – maintenance release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

This is not a major update to VMware Workstation, but there are many bugfixes and minor updates in this VMware Workstation 9.0.2 release. Workstation 9 released several months back brought many useful new features and people who nests ESXi with Workstation should experience more smooth operation since release 9, because of the enhancements and improvements […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 9.0.2

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack – Where it’s gone?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

After the VMware Horizon View 5.2 GA release, It seems that the two components which enables to leverage HTML 5 compatible browser to access virtual desktops in VMware View 5.2 did not made it into the GA release. Which components are those? It’s the components called VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack. The pack components […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) validation report

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

New PDF report testing VDP  has been conducted by ESG. Recently an enhanced version of VMware vSphere Data Protection has been unveiled by VMware. This Enhanced version of VDP is about 4 times more scalable than the VDP Standard. You can read all the details about VDP advanced in my post here. Very good performance […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware vSphere Data Protection

VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer’s Guide – The “Ultimate” one

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware Horizon Workspace

A very nice PDF which has been released by VMware to give an excellent almost step-by-step guide called VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer’s Guide, with many screenshots for implementation of the newly released VMware Horizon Workspace. I already detailed VMware Horizon Workspace with many screenshots in my posts, but for the implementation I haven’t had the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer's Guide

PHD Virtual 6.2 CloudHook – Product Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

PHD Virtual 6.2 CloudHook

PHD Virtual has updated their backup product PHD Virtual backup & Replication, to enable IT administrators leverage cloud storage directly as backup destination. PHD Virtual CloudHook is the latest update. The newest feature allows to setup cloud storage as a backup destination, directly from within the UI. The product is able to backup VMs directly […]

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| Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: PHD Virtual CloudHook

ESXi scratch partition – how to enable and why?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

It’s recommended by VMware to have a persistent scratch location for VMkernel logs in case that ESXi is installed on USB stick or SD card (1Gb is minimum size). ESXi scratch partition, for those particular cases, resides in memory – in RAM disk, which is limited in size. The size is only 512 Mb, which is taken […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi scratch partition

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