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VMware vSphere 5 Update 1 has been released

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VMware Updated vSphere 5 to vSphere Update 1. It’s mostly maintenance release. Not only vSphere 5 has been updated to U1, but also other VMware products like vShield Edge 5.0.1, vCloud Director 1.5.1 , SRM 5.0.1, vCenter Heartbeat 6.4u1, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5 and VMware View 5.0.1. In fact the whole cloud operating software […]

Free tool – Veeam One Free Edition – for your virtual infrastructure.

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Free Tool –  Veeam One Free Edition – v.6. Veeam Monitor was the Free tool from Veeam that everyone knew about since long time. Now Veeam has new offer where not only Veeam Monitor is included but also Reporter and Business View – a Free Bundle called Veeam One Free. Veeam Monitor shows the resource consumption and […]

Cannot register virtual machine template

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A general system occured: the system returned an error. communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted. You might see this message when registering Virtual machine template and your vCenter reports an error like that. A quick search pointed me to the solution. In fact the VM template has been created originally and configured […]

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Sysprep Limitations – drive letters changes and others

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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 […]