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Starwind SAN 5.6 with Advanced GUI and more

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Starwind SAN 5.6 released

Starwind SAN Software has been updated to the version 5.6 Starwind SAN is not new for ESX Virtualization readers. I’ve done quite a few articles about Starwind when I was learning to pass my VCP certification exam. In case you don’t know Stawind SAN, you can have a look at my article – Starwind iSCSI […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: iSCSI Storage, Starwind 5.6, Starwind Advanced GUI

Updating ESXi 4.1 to Update 1 brings an error vim.fault.noHost

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

vim.Fault.NoHost error when patching VMware ESXi4.1 to Update 1

When I was trying to update the latest Update 1 I got an error on one host. The error message says Install error on host: error details: vim.fault.noHost. It was quite strange since both other hosts I was updating went smooth without any errors. I was trying to apply those patches via CLI without success […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vim.fault.noHost

Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

vSphere Update 1 was released by VMware. Just during the PEX (Partner Exchange) at Orlando there is a new major update for vSphere 4.1 – U1 release. Mostly bug fixes in this release, but some new things also. For example…for ESX(i) 4.1 U1 what’s new? Not all components of vSphere had been refreshed. Only vCenter, […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ESXi 4.1 U1, vSphere 4.1 U1, vSphere 4.1 update 1

Switch from RDP to PCoIP with a nice drop in the WAN network traffic

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

In this video from VMware TV you’ll see a VMware client using VMware View 4.5 in a heath-care environement. A quick video about using VMware View for Virtualizing Desktops in medial care institutions. What took my attention was the fact that when they swapped from classic RDP sessions to PCoIP provided by VMware View Virtual […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: PCoIP, VMware View

Latest VMmarks published by Fujitsu

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S6 with VMware ESX v4.1 / vCenter 4.1 VMmarks published. Score of 6.81 at 7 tiles. The news come from VMware Website where the results were published. I can tell that the RX 200 S6 has made some enormous progress since the previous models and it became the most sold model for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Fujitsu VMarks results

New book about vSphere Design preorder

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 16, 2017

New book will hit the Amazon store soon. New vSphere Design Book from some well known faces in the VMware community. The new book is a joint project of 3 persons: Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe, and Maish Saidel-Keesing. All those guys are also bloggers. This is a first book which is oriented VMware vSphere design. […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VMware vSphere Design, vSphere Design book

Reunion Island – a Saturday morning…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Saturday’s post. As you already might noticed, I live and work at Reunion Island. You can find out more about me in the About page of this website. This morning I went to the ST Leu market, where I use to go together with my spouse to buy some vegetables and fruits. I took my […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Reunion Island, Video Reunion Island

Check alignement and Wasted Space with free tool from VirtualizePlanet

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Free tool to check alignement of your VMs and also Wasted space on your VMDKs. Ricky El-Qasem from VirtualizePlanet.com has build a nice free tool which enables you to check the alignements of your VMs in the cluster and also check wasted space in your VMDKs. It’s 2 in 1 tool. I was actually participating […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Ricky El-Qasem, vDisk Alignement, vDisk Informer, VirtualizePlanet

Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to the server (1010828) error message

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect to the server (1010828)

How to solve black screen and error message saying “Unable to connect to the MKS” I had this issue the other day when I was trying to connect to the vCenter at my lab at home and then open a console to one of my VMs. “Unable to connect to the MKS: Failed to connect […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Failed to connect to the server (1010828) error message, Unable to connect to the MKS

How and where to change default ports for communication with ESXi host if needed

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

Restart Management Agents through the GUI in ESXi 4.1

The title of the post says it all. If for whichever reason you need to change the default connection port for communication with ESX or ESXi i host, you might want to know where to go and how to modify it. And also which services (daemons) to restart. This post will teach how and where […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: change default ports to connect to ESX or ESXi server, VMware ESXi changing ports

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