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Are you looking for vSphere Pro Training?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Are you looking for vSphere Training? David Davis – which is the author of the First (and the best 😎 ) vSphere 4 training course. David is (vExpert, CCIE #9369, CWNA, MCSE, CISSP, Linux+, VCP). David will teach you what’s good for VMware View and  ThinApp. Hal Rottenberg is the second person which will introduce […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Coupon Code VMware, VMware vSphere 4 Coupon Code, vSphere 4 promo, vSphere 4 training Coupon Code

Veeam just released Fast SCP 3 compatible with W7 and 2008R2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 10, 2010

Veeam just released a new version of very popular free SCP client FAST SCP 3. This software is very popular and the Windows 7 compatibility will make happy more than one (including me 😎 ). So it’s a great news to announce to all my regular readers. I followed Free SCP since the early days […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Fast SCP, Veeam FastSCP 3.0.2

vSphere 4 Pro video learning course is out.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Some great news today – The new vSphere Pro Video Training is Available. There is new video learning course available from TrainSignal. It’s completely new Professional Video Training course which is focusing on some advanced management techniques via Power CLI for VMware vSphere 4 and also some deep diving into PowerShell some other Vmware products […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vSphere Entreprise Pro Training, vSphere Pro Training, vSphere Training

You know how to collect diag information when your ESXi does PSOD?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 5, 2010

Find out more in logs concerning PSOD. Way back I explained in my post that exists several ways to collect logs from vCenter Server and send those crucial informations to vmware support to check out. This time I saw a VMware KB article explaining how to collect logs from a ESXi server doing PSOD (purple […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs ESXi, how to collect logs ESXi 4, logs ESXi 4

Best practices for using VMware Converter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 6, 2013

Some best practices using VMware Converter. New video from VMware KB website. This time it’s about using VMware converter. To master VMware converter permits you sometimes to save your day too …..   ( had an Error unable to access a file since it is locked” ). This video provides an overview of the best practices for converting […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Vide VMware converter, VmWare Converter

Free RDP plug-in to manage your Virtual Infrastructure running under vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 18, 2012

Free tool from Xtravirt – RDP connection Plug-in. Xtravirt is know from the past providing great PDF tutorials for configuring VMware workstation to be able to run  ESX Server as a nested VM. (Fyi This step is no longer necessary in VMware Workstaion 7). Or providing little script to download all PDF’s from VMware website […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tools, Freware management tools VMware, Managing Vmware Infrastructure, Xtravirt RDP plugin

Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Do I choose the PVSCSI or LSI Logic virtual adapter on ESX 4.0 for non-IO intensive workloads? I thought that the question about using or not VMware Paravirtual adapter was solved with the vSphere 4 Update 1 and the announce that VMware has officialy support PVSCSI on boot disks. For me it was clear that I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: pvSCSI, using PVSCSI, vmware paravirtual, vSphere update 1 pvscsi

NTLDR missing – silly but can happend

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

This might happen if you have a floppy attached to your VM. Sometimes, when you forget to un-attach a floppy drive from a VM, you might experience this error message. Windows does not boot You see the error: NTLDR is missing Well, to get your VM work again, just make sure that the SCSI driver […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ntldr missing, vmware error ntldr missing

Free tool for Partitionning VMs !

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2010

There is a new free tool available from Paragon Software. If you played already with Partition Magic in the past or Acronis Disk director, you know that those tools are not free… But this one is. At least for first 5000 downloads… 👿 Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Tools, free tools vmware, Paragon Software, Partitioning

How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files and disable shrinking

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 24, 2010

Sometimes you just want to disable shrinking of VMdk for certain VMs. How do you do that? Before you get started you should know that, if this is done repeatedly, the virtual disk can become unavailable, effectively causing a denial of service. so In most datacenter environments, disk shrinking – no. So you can disable this […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: disable shrink vmdk, shrink virtual disk, shrink vmdk, vSphere shrink disk

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