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Technet Virtual Labs from Microsoft are Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

Microsoft Technet Virtual Labs are Free

Virtual Labs from Microsoft are free, for everyone with Windows and Internet Explorer as the only requirements. I stumbled through an article (in French) the other day showing some free access to microsoft’s virtual labs. I thought, ok, let’s take it for a spin and see what it’s looks like. Remember the VMworld Copenhagen labs? […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Microsoft Technet Labs, Hyper-V Technet Labs

How to update vSphere 5 to vSphere 5 U1 using the vSphere update manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2013

Step by step  of the upgrade process for ESXi 5 to ESXi 5 U1 using vSphere update manager. Few days back I reported on that VMware has released an Update 1 of vSphere 5. This release is mainly fixing some issues found in the vSphere 5, but also brings some additional features and renforces the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to patch vSphere 5, How to update vSphere 5 to vSphere 5 U1 using update manager, Upgrade to vSphere 5 U1, vSphere 5 U1

New strategic partnership for Starwind and new product offers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 10, 2017

Starwind vSphere Web Client Plugin

Starwind partners with Systematica and also with ETC BV. Strategic partnership for easier distribution of Starwind iSCSI SAN solutions and VM backup technologies in Italy and Netherlands. You can read both press releases below. We’ll be also talking about some interesting news from Starwind and new product offers. Starwind is a very dynamic company and now ships also […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind Software

VMware View 5 outpeforms Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 in this independent study

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

VMware View 5 outperforms Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 in this Independent Study

VMware View 5 vs Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 – which one performs better? In this Independent study performed by Principled Technologies, LoginVSI was used to test and benchmark the two different VDI solutions. VMware View 5 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.5. You can download and test LoginVSI yourself, there is an “Express” Version of the software too. In this study […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Citrix XenDesktop 5.5, VMware View 5, VMware View 5 compared to XenDesktop 5.5

Virtual Platform Solutions

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

Condusiv - V-Locity for VMware and Hyper-V - Virtual Platform Solutions VM Storage Performance

VM Storage Perfomance. Today’s virtual environments demand constant application of effort towards maintaining the highest possible service levels with no overhead. Existing physical storage investments are not yielding their optimal benefit due to file system limitations at the OS level, and inefficient resource allocation leads to frequent service bottlenecks. The V-locity® 3 virtual platform disk optimizer bridges […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CogniSAN, InvisiTasking technology, VM Storage Performance

VMware vSphere 5 Update 1 has been released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5.0.1, VMware vSphere 5 Update 1, vSphere 5.0.1

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

Veeam One version 6

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 […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VEEAM Business View, Veeam Monitor, Veeam One Free, Veeam Reporter

Cannot register virtual machine template

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2012

Cannot register virtual machine template

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Cannot register a virtual machine template, communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted

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 […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: ESXi 5 nested, How-to setup vSphere Lab nested, Nested ESXi, Workstation 8 nested ESXi 5

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kits

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 […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ESXi 5 Free, Free ESXi 5, Memory limitations ESXi 5, vSphere 5 Hypervisor

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