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Recover lost space from thin provisioned disks by using Guest Reclaim Fling

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 12, 2013

Shows no mapping for the disks

Guest Reclaim to recover lost space on thin provisionned disks. After the announce few days ago I was wondering on how to possibly use this tool, since there are some limitations. Most likely, as said in the Guest Reclaim ReadMe (pdf) file, the tool will take part in future updates to VMware hypervisor.  For now this tool […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Guest Reclaim Fling, thin provisionning, unmap

Disconnected Templates Issue

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Disconnected Templates in vCenter

Disconnected Templates – how to delete? I had a issue in my lab with templates. The templates were grayed out, without the possibility to unregister from vCenter by right clicking. The VMDK files and the VMXT template configuration files were fine on the datastores and I could convert the VM back and forth to and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Disconnected VM Templates

Thinapped vSphere Client for v 5.0U1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Thinapped vSphere Client - vSphere 5.0U1

Zero Install with Thinapped vSphere Client for v 5.0U1 I think that I missed this release. There is now an updated vSphere Client as a thinapped application for version vSphere 5.0 U1. This release, with the possibility to still download the previous release (for vSphere 4.1), handles vSphere 5.0 and also vSphere 5.0 U1. Thinapped […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Thinapp Application VMware Client, Thinapped vSphere Client, vSphere Client Thinapp

Windows 8 Upgrade Paths from XP, Vista and Seven announced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Windows 8 Upgrade Paths for Windows XP, Vista and 7

Windows 8 upgrade paths. Earlier this month the preview release of Windows 8 has been announced for download. Now, as Windows 8 will upgrade its predecessor. But how the upgrade process will deal with earlier versions of Windows? For example, will there be a possibility to upgrade from Windows XP? This wasn’t the case for W7. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Vista and 7, Windows 8 upgrade paths, Windows 8 Upgrade Paths for Windows XP, Windows Vista Upgrade, Windows XP upgrade

How-to Video: Protecting Applications, Not Just Data

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

ZERTO - How-to Video: Protecting Applications, Not Just Data

How-to Video from Zerto – Protect Applications, Not Just Data. In virtualized environments, coordinating the state of the data and the state of the application is challenging.  Especially for tier-1 applications, which typically span multiple virtual machines, application protection is not simple.  Business-critical applications are more complex in terms of dependencies and infrastructure, have aggressive […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: DR sites, DR with Zerto, Hypervizor Level Replication, Zerto Video

Free VMware PowerPoint Icons and Images to download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 1, 2013

Free VMware Icons and schemas in PPT format

Free VMware PowerPoint Icons. There are new VMware Icons, Box shots, Logos in those 3 PPT files which are available from the VMware Communities. The PPT files are available at the VMware Website here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2037163.  Those icons, shapes and assets can be used in presentations. There is still possible to download the older version: VMware PowerPoint Icons and […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VMware Powerpoint Icons, VMware Icons, VMware PowerPoint Icons, VMware Visio Stencils

How to install Horizon Application Manager in a lab – part2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

How-to configure VMware Horizon Connector via the Setup Wizard

How-to configure VMware Horizon Connector via the Setup Wizard. I finally move on with the setup of the Horizon in my lab, which is currently under some transformation too, but I’ll be reporting on that in a separate post. I’m basically testing another configuration with as an iSCSI target the Starwind iSCSI SAN. In my […]

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| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How to configure Horizon, How-to configure VMware Horizon Connector via the Setup Wizard, VMware Horizon Configuration

VDI Calculator Update – 2.8.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 16, 2017

Flash VDI Calculator - A Free Online Tool to Size your VDI solution

VDI Calculator has been updated. The new release of VDI calculator created and provided by Andre Leibovici has been released. In this release, which is only a maintenance release, there has been few modifications. The Free Online Tool for calculating and sizing a VDI solutions running on VMware vSphere. The tool can be used for […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VMware VDI calculator, VDI Calculator update, VDI sizing tool, VMware VDI Calculator

VMworld 2012 San Francisco and Barcelona – more news

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

VMworld 2012

VMworld 2012 San Francisco and VMworld Europe Barcelona news. VMworld 2012 this year will be held at San Francisco, Moscone Center. And in Europe it will be Barcelona. As a guy from Europe, I’m planning to attend the VMworld Europe in Barcelona only. And I see that I will miss the band –  Jon Bon Jovi […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMworld 2012, VMworld Europe, VMworld US

The Complexity of VMware Storage Management

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 1, 2013

The Complexity of VMware Storage

The Complexity of VMware Storage Management, from Isilon System. There is a new paper from Isilon (divission of EMC) with as a subject Complexity of VMware storage management. Did you know that other protocols other than FC were introduced by VMware into ESX 3.0 only? Protocols like iSCSI or NAS which can be used to connect […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Complexity of VMware Storage, EMC Isilon, VMware Storage Management

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