Vladan SEGET, Author at ESX Virtualization

How to Setup Nested vSphere Lab on a PC by Using VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 18, 2018

Free E-book: How to setup nested VMware vSphere lab on a PC or laptop? Ever wanted to test the latest vSphere Suite without having enough hardware? Features like vMotion, Fault Tolerance, DRS (distributed ressource scheduler) or HA (High Availability) can be tested in nested environment by using VMware Workstation. Note that the latest vSphere 6 […]

Free ESXi 5 (vSphere 5 Hypervisor) memory limits in SMB and more

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

ESXi 5 Free hypervisor memory limits in small business and other thoughts. I often hear from small customers the complains about the price about VMware licensing. But look, there is a free offer with entreprise class VMware hypervisor – vSphere 5 Hypervisor (formerly Free ESXi 5). Most of SMBs in Europe are small shops, that’s why […]

Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008R2 VM when vCenter Installed

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008 R2 Virtual Machine with ADAM installed. If you’re running VMware vCenter as a VM, you might experience the following problem when backing up. The VM cannot be backed up with any backup software, because the backup software can’t take a quiesced snapshot of the VM. In VDR you’ll be facing […]

Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware. Here is my Saturday post with some upcoming freeware utilities which can disable the new Windows 8 Metro user interface. All those utilities make the switch to old classic Win 7 style as a snap. Update: You might wanna check my post about a Free cool start menu for Windows 8 (Works on Server 2012 […]

Playing with Embotics V-Commander live demo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

I tried Embotic’s V-Commander Live Demo Online. As you might already noticed, my sidebar on the right hand side “grew” a bit and so there is another partner supporting ESX Virtualization website. The name of the partner is Embotics. Canadian company who is not so new in the virtualization business, but who is creating very […]

How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make the change persistent after reboot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make it persistent after reboots. If you want to keep SSH to your ESXi hosts, but want to change the default SSH port (22) to non default port, there is a way to do it. For example you don’t wan to have SSH on 22 but […]

Sysprep Limitations – drive letters changes and others

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 28, 2012

Be aware of those Sysprep limitations – drive letters changes and others When using sysprep in your organisation, you might be interested in Syprep Limitations. Yes, there are some. Hard Disk with multiple partitions – That’s one of those limitation of Sysprep. This is the problem with a VM which is being “sypreped”, but the […]

3rd as an Independent Virtualization Blog – Awards 2012

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

The Virtualization Blog Awards 2012. This year the Virtualization blog competition ended quite a few days back, but with over 1200 votes, Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land.com had to spend many hours to actually count all that votes to be able to announce the results. And as a result ESX Virtualization ended up in the […]

vBenchmark – latest Fling from VMware Labs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 25, 2012

The latest Fling Application from VMware Labs – vBenchmark The download is about 450 Megs, and it’s packaged as an OVF file to distribute the appliance. The VM runs under Suse Linux Entreprise Servder SLES 11 (32bit). The deployment process is a snap. In the vSphere client while connected to your vCenter you go: File […]

VDR connectivity and divers troubleshooting