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Get info about your disks with RV Tools

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 13, 2013

RV Tools – a small packaging, great value In a modern data center running VMware vSphere 4 you need to track and check your inventory for exemple to see that half of your VMs had been created with Thick disk and your SAN space is quickly becoming critical… Quick start of RV Tools – TAB […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Inventory VMware vSphere 4, rv tools

Backup and DR with Acronis True Image Home 2010

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Easy setup of Acronis 2010 home. Acronis is one of my preferred products when it comes to backup and disaster recovery for physical PCs or Servers. I tested recently the new Acronis 2010 home edition called Acronis True Image Home 2010.  You can get free trial if you follow this link to test this nice […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Acronis Home, Acronis True Image Home 2010, Test Acronis home

VMware Workstation Teams in video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

My new video showing Teams in action. I decided to give it a try. The new Camtasia Studio 7 looked just great, so I downloaded and I’m trying to shoot some video. I hope that my french accent don’t bothers you too much guys… -:), but seeing some good quality videos from Eric Sloof here […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: using Teams VMware Workstaiton, Video VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation 7 video

Performance best practices for VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Performance Best practice VMware Workstation 7

A must have PDF for VMware Workstation users. There is an interesting whitepaper on VMware Website concerning some best practices and optimization tactics to get the most out of your VMware Workstation 7. There are some configuration steps to apply, if possible in your environement, because the installation out of the box is not optimized […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Best Practices Workstation 7, Performance Best practices VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Best practices

Use NIC teaming feature to share load and get passive failover

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

NIC teaming with VMware vSphere 4 With VMware vSphere 4 you have the possibility to team your NICs and benefit redundancy and share the network load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among the members of the network. The configuration is easy via GUI even if its possible use CLI (command line interface) for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: nic teaming, nic teaming policy, nic teaming video

ESXi 4 does not support serial and parallel ports

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

There is no support for serial and parallel ports on ESXi 4 host. I was trying to connect a modem device which communicates via serial port on one of ESXi hosts at customer sites the other day. But every time when I wanted to add a serial port to my VM, which was an Windows […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, Parallel port ESXi 4, serial Port ESXi 4, VMA

VMware VMA – how to change default english keyboard

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2012

When you need to change the default keyboard language. VMware vMA is a Redhat entreprise Linux 5 prepackaged virtual appliance which helps you manage ESXi 4 installations. ESXi 4 is the hypervizor without the classic Service Console. VMware is trying to push more and more to this direction since the Sevice console is a potential […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4 Console, ESXi Console Managemnt, VMA, VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Maximum vSphere – a new book from Top Bloggers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

vSphere 4 book, VMware vSphere 4 book

In August probably there will be a new book available which from Eric Siebert. Eric, but also Simon Seagrave and Rich Brambley who participated on the book, will bring the best how-to tips on managing, installing, administering or making backups of your virtual infrastructure running under VMware vSphere 4. The book is entitled “Maximum vSphere: […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: New vSphere 4 book, VMware vSphere 4 book, vSphere 4 Book

Online storage, share, backup with Dropbox

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 11, 2010

Use Dropbox for syncing files between computers. There is a very popular online storage application called DropBox. What is it? It’s an online storage place, which provides you with 2 gigs of storage space for free where you can store your PDF documents, spreadsheets, RTF or jpegs…  If you’re using several computers you can synchronise […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: DropBox, file sync online, free Online storage, online Backup

Free For MAC users – WinX DVD ripper software to download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Another Freebie to download and use. This time for MAC. Even if I’m not a MAC user, at least not yet, one of my partners had informed me about this giveaway. I have a few friends with MAC, but for now I’m PC, especially that because in my professional career I have to deal the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: DVD rip for MAC, Free DVD rip MAC

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