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Realtek onboard NIC support in vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

vSphere 5.0 running with Realtek 8169

Some more from my Home Lab and vSphere 5 concerning the onboard Realtec NIC cards. During period running my Lab with vSphere 4.1 there was no way to run the onboard Realtek NIC cards without hacking some of the files present on the original vSphere 4.1 iso. Maybe I should take even more time to do […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Homelab vSphere 5, Onboard NIC for vSphere 5, Realtec NIC vSphere

Veeam Backup and replication v 6.0 News

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 1, 2013

Veeam Backup and Replication v6 - See Live Demo in Las Vegas at VMworld 2011

Here are some fresh news about Veeam Backup and Replication v. 6.0. UPDATE: There has been a version 6.1 released which also introduced VeeamZIP – a Free Backup solution from Veeam Software. Check it out. Veeam continues the innovation process started in the early days and we can expect other great features appearing in the […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Veeam 6, Veeam Backup 6, Veeam Backup and Replication v6

Public vExpert Directory is available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

public vExpert Directory at VMware

vExpert Directory is available onLine. All vExperts which did their inscription to the form provided for that purpose by John Troyer, are now accessible online. The whole directory which counts nearly 300 vExperts from all over the world, is finally up. And as you can imagine I did a few searches there to find myself […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Public vExpert Directory, vExpert Directory, vExpert VMware, vExperts Directory, VMware vExpert Directory

VMware vSphere 5 – Virtual Machine Hardware Version 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware vSphere 5 - How to upgrade virtual hardware to version 8

What’s the enhancements in Virtual Hardware version 8? VMware vSphere 4.x did introduced virtual hardware v. 7 and VMs with 256  Gigs of RAM. Now with VMware vSphere 5 it is possible to configure VMs with 1TB of RAM.. Those VMs are rather Monster VMs. Together with up to 32 virtual CPUs this is quite huge. Another […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: new enhancements in virtual hardware version 8, Virtual hardware version 8, VMware vSphere 5

vSphere 5 – Installing web client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 16, 2011

vSphere 5 Web Client console

The new webclient (server part) installation video. The new web client web interface is using Adobe Flex which is the same as the VMware View and vCloud Director user interfaces. The use of Flash plugin in your browser is necessary. The new Web client, present on the installation media of VMware vSphere 5 gets installed […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: vSphere 5 web client, vSphere 5 WebClient Video

The Official vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool is out

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2013

vRAM Entitlements compared - for every version of VMware vSphere 5

The official release of vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool. At first, when the new licensing of vSphere 5 has been announced, there was Alan Renouf’s PowerCLI script available about checking on about the vRAM compliance. It’s because the Official vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool was still under development. It was an independent company which was contracted by […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere Licensing Advisor Tool, vSphere vRAM Entitlement Tool

24 vCPU VMs with almost native performance on Fujitsu’s servers running vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Fujitsu RX300S6 running vSphere 5 and 24 vCPU Virtual Machine

This Info comes up from Vroom! blog from VMware. It seems that the first tests from VMware partners comes up and shows that having some monster VMs can be beneficial for applications like SAP. In fact, Fujitsu has tested 2 systems, one which has been running on physical server, and another one within VMware vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Benchmark vSphere 5, vSphere 5 benchs

vSphere 5 – Installing VUM – VMware Update Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 4, 2013

VMware vSphere 5 - VUM - VMware Update Manager installation video

VUM – VMware Update Manager installation Video from my Lab. In this video you’ll see an installation of VMware Update Manager, which is integrated solution for patching ESX(i) hosts and VMs. Part of the installation is the upgrade process from vSphere 4.1, where you got the choice of deleting the old files (or not). The process […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: VMware update manager, vSphere 5 update manager, vSphere 5 Video, VUM

How Many VMs can you fit in virtualized environment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Free Whitepaper - Detecting available VM slots for capacity planning

A new whitepaper from vKernel showing a metrics-based approach to calculate a number of VMs which can fit in your virtualized environment. This free resource publication from Alex Rosenblat and Ken Latimer shows you some deep dives into some metrics which one hast to take into consideration when making a calculation of how many VM […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Capacity Planning VMware, Free whitepaper, VM Slots, VMware vSphere VM slots

vSphere 5 – upgrading vCenter Server video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

vSphere 5 - upgrade vCenter Server

I did an upgrade of vCenter server in my lab, so I thought that It’s a good idea to record the process. While I had the choice to do a clean installation of VMware vSphere 5 with all the components to a new VM in my small 2 host cluster datacenter, I preferred to do […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: vCenter 4 to vCenter 5 upgrade, vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5 upgrade, vSphere 5 upgrade

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