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How to activate the PAC when you purchase VMware product through a partner

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

how to register the PAC code

Partner Activation Code – (PAC) activation procedure. PAC stays for Partner Activation Code. When customer buys a VMware product through an OEM partner, he’ll need to activate the PAC first to be able to get the License Activation Code (LAC)/Serial number. If the customer has been registered with VMware in the past, he’ll needs to […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: License VMware activation process, Partner Activation Code VMware Explained, Vmware PAC

How to Enable Copy paste between VMware vSphere Client and a VM in vSphere 4.1 and higher

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 30, 2013

How to enable copy paste for single VM in ESXi 4.1

Enable the clipboard copy and paste functionality in vSphere 4.1 and later versions. The security has been tightened in vSphere 4.1, so that’s why by default if you install vSphere 4.1 or if you upgrade your vSphere 4.0 installation, you can’t copy paste between the VI client and the VMs running in your vSphere environment.  You […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: copy paste enable on ESX 4.1, copy paste enable on VM ESX 4.1, copy paste vmware, vSphere 4.1 copy paste enable

How to create ISO from folder

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

ISO recorder is a free tool from Alex Feinman. The tool helps you to create a ISO image from folder of your choice. Sometimes you need to access files or tools when you working with isolated VMs. VMs with no network card attached, or with the network card disconnected or you’re in sandbox environment. In […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: create iso from folder, Folder to ISO, how to create iso from folder, ISO recorder

Load ballanced teaming

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Load ballanced teaming was introduced in vSphere 4.1. The load ballanced teaming policy is available in vSphere 4.1 when used in combination with vDS only. vDS stays for vNetwork  Distributed Switch.  So the option is not only available in the SMBs editions vSphere, like the vSphere Essentials or vSphere Essentials Plus, but also it’s not […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: LBT, load ballanced teaming

PCoIP vs HDX – video by Terradici

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

PCoIP compare to HDX

New video by Terradici comparing PCoIP protocol with HDX. Terradici Youtube Channel published recently 2 new videos comparing PCoIP with Citrix HDX. VMware View 4.5 uses PCoIP as a protocol for high speed wan connections which delivers best user experiences. Recent videos by Terradici labs compare this protocol to HDX protocol from Citrix by usint […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: PCoIP vs HDX compare, video PCoIP

Arkeia vStorage Virtual Appliance Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Deploying Arkeia vStorage Virtual Appliance

My test of Arkeia backup solution with vStorage Appliance. Arkeia has released a new vStorage Virtual Appliance for vSphere. The new product can backup vSphere 4.x but also Virtual Infrastructure 3. You can backup your VMs present through vCenter, ESX or ESXi servers. The vStorage Appliance has built in vStorage Backup Agent which interacts with vStorage […]

| Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Arkeia vStorage Virtual Appliance

NFR of Veeam products for every VCP, vExpert or VCI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

If you’re VCP, vExpert or VCI go and get NFR keys for your homelab. There are editors and software vendors who cares and who are close to the users…. and customers. One of them is Veeam. With this excellent news from Veeam software. Veeam offers NFR keys of their products for all people certified VCP, […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication NFR, Veeam Gift for VCPs, Veeam Monitor

Memory compression Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Memory compression demo video - new feature in vSphere 4.1

Vmware Video demo about Memory compression. By using memory compression, feature which is enabled by default in vSphere 4.1 you can speed access up to 1000 times….because the compression/decompression is much faster than swapping to disk. In the video you’ll see a simple test where the memory compression will be deactivated on the first ESX […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Memory Compression vSphere, memory optimization, New feature vSphere 4.1 - memory compression

VMark 2.0 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 26, 2013

Free benchmarking software from VMware – VMark 2.0 The free benchmarking software is destined for hardware vendors to be able to test the hardware for performance. It’s a multi-host virtualization benchmark software which since of the version 1.0 did evolve quite a lot. The second release of VMark can compare different virtualization platforms, which consist of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how to benchmark vmware, vmware benchmarking free, vmwark 2.0

How to fix damaged restore points in VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Data Recovery Integrity Check Fails

VDR – VMware Data Recovery, fixing damaged restore poins. VDR is a part of vSphere Essentials PLUS and above versions (except standard) and it’s a virtual appliance which helps you to protect your Virtual Machines running under VMware vSphere 4.x by using deduplication and CBT. It’s a simple backup solution with no e-mail reporting (yet), […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: destination datastore locked in VDR, Fixing damaged restore points, VDR destination datastores locked, VMware Data Recovery

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