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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

My VCP welcome kit has finally arrived

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

Today I received long awaited VCP welcome kit. After several months of wait and doubt I finally received VMware VCP welcome kit. Inside of the envelope I found a VCP 4 certificate and a letter congrats signed from Paul Maritz. I went to South Africa for the VCP class and exam in November last year, […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VCP, VCP 4, VMware Certified Professional

VMware Thinapp 4.5 with relink functionnality

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

New utility: Relink – upgrade packages in seconds without repackaging or rebuilding With a recent release of vmware Thinapps 4.5 there is a new functionality called relink. What is it? Using this utility, it is very easy to update all your ThinApp apps and (or) games to the latest ThinApp version. And so they work […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Thinapp 4.5, VMware Thinapp

Static MAC address set in VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same host, the MAC adress of the VM is changed. If you want to guarantee that the same […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: static MAC adress vmware, vSphere 4 static MAC adress

VMware Patch process step by step video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 12, 2010

VMware KB video showing patching of ESX Host. vSphere 4 Update Manager in action. If you never used VMware vSphere 4 update manager before, this video shows you how to get started and how to successfully apply a necessary security patches to your ESX host. The GUI interface seems to be difficult to understand, but […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to patch VMware vSphere 4, Patch manager VMware, vSphere Patch manager

Rename VMDKs to avoid Backup conflicts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

What if you end up with the same vmdk file name on different datastores? A simple case scenario that can happens: A single VM has several hard disk attached to it. The hard disk VMDK files are located on different datastores. When creating a new hard disk which location is on different datastore to a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to rename VMDK, rename VMDK

Virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 Applications with VMware vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

There is a new book available now on Amazon. Charles A. Windom and Hermant Gaidhani are introducing some optimization of SQL, Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint with VMware vSphere 4. It’s about 600 pages book, this means some long and good read… I will definitely be checking this out. Since it’s oriented on Microsoft applications like SQL […]

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

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