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Blogging for sharing, not for being vExperts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Why blog? For sharing. That’s my principal idea since the beginning of my website, (I prefer to call it website, because now of it’s layout it’s more like a e-zine, not a blog … 😎 ). I started to write posts, because I wanted to share for free my step-by-steps, how-to’s, learning experiences with other […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blogging, how to blog, reasons for bloggings, why blogging

Get Free Partition Alignement Tool from Paragon

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

This offer is valuable until the end of June 2010. You’ll get FREE White paper PDF + FREE PAT Tool. Paragon Software offers PAT for free till the end of June. The PAT tool I already reported in one of my previous posts, is part of some Paragon’s products, like HD manager Pro (get free […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: FREE Alignement TOOL, Paragon's Free Partition Alignement Tool

How-to perform a manual integrity check in VDR when you have damaged restore point

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 19, 2013

How to repair damaged restore point in VDR - VMware Data Recovery

Need to initiate a manual integrity check of your Deduplication store? The other day after I return from holidays, that one of the restore points was marked red color in our VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance and that the backups were not executed. The integrity check failed because of that damaged restore point. (BTW you can […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to perform a manual integrity check in VDR, Integrity check Error VDR, Integrity check error VMware Data Recovery

Confirmed as a vExpert 2010

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

This makes me proud… very proud. Exciting news, I received a vExpert 2010 award when I opened my e-mail box this morning. Again, like a last year, the e-mail from John Troyer – The visible man behind the vExpert Award – did sent me an e-mail to announce the good news. Thanks John, and thanks […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vExpert Award, vExpert Community, vExperts, VMware vExpert, VMware vExperts

how-to power off unresponsive VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 3, 2010

Power Off unresponsive VM. It happens that you rencounter this trouble. A VM does not want to power off or restart. You cannot do anything with that VM so you’ll have to restart your ESX Server. And what if there is a solution? Yes there is. In the video below from VMware KB you’ll see […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Powering off an unresponsive virtual machine on an ESX host

Sysprep Data location with vCenter running on Windows 2008 and 2003

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

VMware vCenter sysprep files location unde Windows 2008 Server

The default location of sysprep files. Sysprep Data location. When you have your vCenter running under Windows 2008, the sysprep files are located at this path: ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep If you’re running vCenter on Windows 2003 R2 x64 then the location is here: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep Then you’ll see that there are empty folders […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: sysprep files location under 2008, Sysprep files location vcenter on Windows 2003 R2, vCenter Sysprep files location, VMware vCenter 2008

vSphere Plugin wizard from VirtualizePlanet

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

vCenter plugin wizard helps you to create a web based plugins The creator is Ricky El-Quasem from Virtualizeplanet.com. Particulary usefull if you want to personalize your vCenter installation with your company website for example. You can download the plugin for free from here. Update: Now the plugin has a new feature – to be able […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vCenter Plugin Wizard, VMware vCenter

VCAP – VMware Certified Advanced Professional

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 6, 2018

Two new VMware certification exams. VCAP will be an intermediate step you can go through before you became VCDX one day. VCAP – VMware Certified Advanced Professional. It means that there is now “in between” certification. VCP 4> VCAP > VCDX 4. An intermediate step. That’s a good news for people already holding VCP 4 […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VCAP, VCDX, VCP, VMware Certifications

Workstation 7.1 is out and supports now over 600 OS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

VMware Workstation Upgrade Check

VMware Workstation 7.1 has been released yesterday together with VMware ACE 2.7 VMware Workstation 7.1 supports running over 600 operating systems….. Wow..!!! Now with 8 vCPU or processor cores… pretty impressive. Windows 2008R2 as a host – One of the new features which captured my interest is of course support of Windows 2008R2 as a […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VMware ACE 2.7, VMware Workstation 7.1, VMware Workstation coupon

Great KB on how-to configure VLANS on vSwitches, pSwitches and VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

With this VMware KB you’ll found how-to configure VLANS on your vSwitches, pSwitche and VMs. Basically there are 3 methods of VLAN Tagging possible: 01 –External Switch Tagging (EST) 02 – Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) 03 –Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) I highly recommend also this following PDF document concerning VLANing in VMware ESX which you […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VLAN ESX, VMware ESX VLANS, VMware VLAN

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