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Manual Download of VMware Tools from VMware Website

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 21, 2020

Manual Download of VMware Tools. Here is the URL you need to know, in case you want to download VMware tools manually. VMware tools differ for each specific OS. You can if you want to store all those VM tools packages on your network share for later usage. In this remote location, you’ll find the VMware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Manual Download of VMware Tools, VMware tools, vmware tools download, vmware tools windows, where to download vmware tools

How to change virtual SCSI controler for VMware PVSCSI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 20, 2017

Change virtual SCSI controller to VMware PVSCSI. This KB on VMware KB website explaining the step by step for when you want to change from one virtual SCSI controller into another one on your VM. At first, you can try to directly change the type of your disk, but most likely, if it’s a bootable disk, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: LSI logic parallel, pvSCSI, virtual SCSI controler, VMware VM scsi controler

Watch out when upgrading your Workstation if you’re using Linked clones

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 1, 2010

Using Linked Clones in VMware Workstation. Few weeks back I had a surprise. As you know, there has been a new release of VMware Workstation 7.1 which brought in new feature and also new release of VMware tools was available. So the update of all your VMs created by the previous release of  Workstation was […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Linked Clone, Using linked Clones, VMware Workstation Linked clone

New nice feature in Workstation 7.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

Adjust you VM’s memory in Workstation 7.1 easier. New feature which appeared in VMware workstation and which makes easier to adjust the amount of Memory allocated to the VM. Since anyone has really blogged about I said myself that It could be interresting to bring it up. There are small squares which indicates The minimum […]

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

Integrity check with details in VDR 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2011

Detailed Informations about Integrity scan. This is a quick follow up post after explaining how to initiate a manual integrity check in VMware Data Recovery – backup solution provided with vSphere Essentials Plus package. In my last article I showed you that sometimes you have to initiate the manual integrity check to correct an error […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Deduplication store for VDR, VDR 1.2, VDR backup appliance, VMware Data Recovery

New Exchange 2010 training released by TrainSignal

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2007 and new training from Trainsignal for Exchange 2010. While there has been a new release of Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2007, which makes possible to install Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2, there is also SP1 for Exchange 2010 in preparation. Exchange 2007 SP3 includes some Active […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Training, Trainsignal Exchange 2010

Hyper-V versus vSphere Snapshots, and why not use snapshots as a backup solution

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

The way snapshots works are not the same on both hypervizors. Snapshots “made by hyper-v”, called Checkpoints, work a bit different way than the snapshots in VMware vSphere. VMware vSphere snapshots work differently. Administrator managing Hyper-V not being aware that the checkpoints are merged only when the VM is powered down, could find himself short on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Hyper-V snapshots, use backup solution instead of snapshots, VMware Snapshots, vSphere snapshots

New feature in upcomming vSphere 4.1 – SIOC

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Storage Input Output Control. One of the major improvements in the upcoming vSphere 4.1 is certainly the new storage IO control. (SIOC). With SIOC activated you can define QoS prioritization for the I/O activity on a single host or a cluster of hosts. Activating SIOC on your datastore, you’re able to prevent an individual VM […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: SIOC, Storage IO control, VMware 4.1

SUSE Linux Entreprise Server on VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Vmware And novel signed strategic partnership. In fact VMware singes partnership with NOVELL concerning the SLES distribution. With your purchase of VMware vSphere, you’ll be able to get a subscription to SUSE Linux, the updates etc…as part of the vSphere product. VMware is able to distribute SUSE Linux software inside appliances or as part of […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: SUSE Linux Entreprise Server, VMware with NOVELL parthership

vExpert Directory and more…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

A week or two back when the vExperts awards 2010 has been announced, Arnim Van Lieshout took an initiative and created a vExpert Directory. I was quite supprised that Arnim started such an initiative, since I can barely imagine the HUGE amount of work to have a list of vExperts as much as close to […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vExpert 2010, vExpert Directory

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