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Free 12 months NFR License key from Starwind Software

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

Free NFR License of Starwind iSCSI SAN Software

Starwind Software offers Free NFR licenses for your lab. If you’re vExpert, MVP, MCT, VCI, CCI, CTP you can apply for a Free 12 months NFR license of HA iSCSI SAN Software from Starwind. It’s definitely  one of the easiest iSCSI solution to setup when building VMware lab. In less than 5 min you can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free NFR Starwind, Free Starwind iSCSI SAN NFR, Starwind Software

How To Install VMware Tools in CentOS based VMs easily

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2018

CentOS Virtual Machine Properties - Select the appropriate Linux Distribution

This post will teach you How To Install VMware Tools in CentOS. There’s more than one way to install VMware Tools in CentOS VM. I just want to show the way I ended up of using it, there are some commands to remember. So also I wrote this post also for my own need… CentOS VMs can […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: CentOS, How-to Install VMware Tools in CentOS, VMware tools CentOS install

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Release Preview on ESXi 5 – does it work?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2016

Choice of Windows 8 as a guest OS in the Template for Virtual Hardware version 8 only

Troubleshoot Windows 8 and Server 2012 guest OS on ESXi 5 On ESXi 5 it’s Preview Tech support only, so if you want to test, you can. I thought that the Microsoft’s update on both systems with Release Previews which has been released few days ago might changed few things concerning the installation process or tweaks necessary […]

| Filed Under: How To, Windows Server 2012 Tagged With: ESXi 5, Windows 2012, Windows 8

Veeam Backup Free Version – The 6.1 released and brings also a Free Version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

Veeam Light - restore options for individual file recovery

Veeam Backup Free version is capable of Full VM backups, Copy VM and File Level Restore. Veeam Software has released new version of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1. The new version of Veeam Backup & Replication brings not only another new feature for backup Hyper-V VMs, but also Intelligently introduces different way of working with Veeam […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam 6.1, Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1, Veeam Backup 6.1, Veeam Free Edition

vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide After several drafts, the final vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide document has been released. The new thing is that this time it comes in a spreadsheet format only (as an xlsx).  It’s because apparently people ending by putting the text into spreadheet format anyway….  The vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide document is […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 5 Security hardening Guide, vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide

Windows 8 and Server 2012 Release Preview available for download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

Windows 8 start menu - how to enable - the alternative way

There is a new release preview available for Windows 8 and also Windows 2012 Server The very controversial release of Windows 8 is coming. This time it’s the RC version which we can test. Usually as a VM by using Free VMware Player, VMware Workstation or as an Datacenter VM directly on your ESXi host. I say […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

Highest-Level Security Certification for vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

VMware vSphere 5

Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) for VMware vSphere 5 VMware vSphere 5 has been awarded with an advanced security certification. VMware has worked with Corsec Security, Inc., and CGI in order to achieve this certification.  CGI Group has got an acredited lab which was necessary to complete the evaluation. Common Criteria does […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Common Criteria (CC), Highest-Level Security Certification, ISO 15408, vSphere 5

vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick Overview

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick overview

New ESXTOP PDF ressource diagram called “vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick Overview for Troubleshooting”. Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi ressources, performances, resources contention, all this might be difficult at first. There is a new Free PDF resource document available from German speaking blogger Andi Lesslhumer which might help to understand and learn some ESXTOP tricks.  The document is in English. The first version […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXTOP, ESXTOP Diagram, ESXTOP Quick reference, Free Document ESXTOP

VMware vDS is not that complicated – see the video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

vSphere advanced networking

VMware vDS – Distributed Virtual Switch. The new free video has come out from the latest TrainSignal Training course called vSphere Advanced Networking. This training focuses on networking, and especially on those more advanced networking features which are present in vSphere 5. One of them is vDS. vDS compared to standard virtual switch is managed and configured […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Distributed Virtual Switch, vDS, VMware Distrubuted Virtual Switch, vSphere Advanced networking

Principal Keyboard Shortcuts of VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2012

VMware Workstation 8 Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts VMware Workstation 8 To speed up the daily use of VMware Workstation, it’s good to know some keyboard shortcuts. I wanted to point out some of them that I use the most. Shortcuts that save you some time searching through the icons or menus. There is much more than listed below but I […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Keyboard shortcuts Workstation 8, VMware Workstation Keyboard Shortcuts

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