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Installation of VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2013

Installation of VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8 - excellent way to test the new ESXi 5

My video showing the installation steps on how to install VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8. Why would one want to run nested ESXi 5? Because of the flexibility of such a solution. You can add more NICs to your “virtual ESXi”, more storage (just add another hard disk…), and more. For testing this […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: ESXi 5.0 inside of VMware Workstation 8, VMware Workstation 8

Playing with Workstation 8 and Windows 8 tech preview

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 18, 2011

VMware Workstation 8 - the best destkop virtualization software

I installed a new VM of Windows 8 inside of my VMware Workstation 8 I thought that I’d share my experience of running Windows 8 (tech preview release) as a VM in my freshly installed VMware Workstation 8. In fact no tweaks are necessary. I just selected Windows 7 as a model and pointed it […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: VMware Workstation 8, Windows 8 running in VMware Workstation 8

Performance of Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 16, 2011

Exchange 2010 performance on VMware vSphere 5

A new whitepaper from VMware shows the performance on  vSphere 5. In this Whitepaper you’ll see the compare results of vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5 by running Exchange 2010 Mailbox server. A tool called Microsoft Exchange Load Generator 2010 was used to run those tests. LoadGen runs on a client system and simulates the messaging […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Exchange 2010 performance vSphere 5, performance Exchange 2010 vSphere 5, vSphere 5 Exchange 2010

Connect to ESX(i) server to copy-paste your VM from VMware Workstation 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 15, 2011

VMware Workstation 8.0 drag-and-drop Feature in action

Here is a very cool feature of VMware Workstation which change a bit the way we work today. In fact, the new version of VMware Workstation 8.0 can connect to ESX(i) server or vCenter. Then, if you have some VMs stored locally on your PC, you can copy paste them directly to your ESX(i) host. […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Workstation 8.0, VMware Workstation copy paste VM

VMware View 5.0 GA and available for download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

VMware View 5.0 Generally available VMware View recently announced during VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas is finally GA and available for download. As you could read in my article about the release in my post which was published here on my website a couple of days ago during the event, the new Vmware View 5.0 […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: View Persona Management, VMware View 5

VMware Workstation 8.0 and VMware Fusion 4.0 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 14, 2011

VMware Workstation and Fusion

A new major release for VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. The new VMware Workstation 8 has been released together with VMware Fusion 4. There are some new features which are introduced and which we use to benefit on VMware Server before it was discontinued. The new GUI is great as well and ofcourse the drag-and-drop […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware Fusion 4, VMware Workstation 8

Veeam’s Backup Accademy Website opened – an excellent Free ressource

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Backup Academy: Free data protection training & certification for virtualization

Veeam has opened new resource website which is an incredible training ressource. It’s a free website, which has been sponsored by Veeam and where you can watch training videos on backup technologies for different hyper-visors.  The website has some great video  content already provided by some top Experts in the Industry, not only specializing in […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup Accademy, Hyper-V, Veeam Backup, VMware vSphere

VMware Converter 5.0 is ready for VMware Workstation 8.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 27, 2013

VMware converter 5 and as a destination of the conversion can be a VMware Workstation 8

It’s possible to convert VM or physical system to VMware Workstation 8.0 format. I was playing the other day with the new VMware converter 5.0 standalone which has been released recently and noticed that you can already convert virtual machines or physical systems to the VMware Workstation 8 format. VMware converter permits not only to P2V  […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Converter 5.0, VMware Workstation 8.0

VSA Technical Evaluation Guide in PDF is available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VSA evaluation guide Free whitepaper

This Technical Evaluation Guide Whitepaper is technical guide to easily test VSA – vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 introduced new product which I think will become very popular for small businesses. The product is called vSphere Storage Appliance and it uses local disks of each ESXi host in the cluster to create a shared […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Whitepaper VSA, VSA Book VMware, VSA promo, vSphere 5 promo, vSphere 5 storage appliance, vSphere Storage Appliance

Demo Video of the new snapshot consolidation feature in vSphere 5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5

In the new version of vSphere 5 the issues in snapshots are easier to solve. Users are now informed that snapshot consolidation has failed. It’s showed by a configuration issue warning message on a Summary Tab. And now in VMware vSphere 5 there is a new command accessible through a right click. But at first, […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Shapshot Consolidate feature vSphere 5, vSphere Snapshot Consolidate

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