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Serial Port handling in ESXi 4.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

It’s possible to use a serial port now on your physical host in ESXi 4.1 Few months back, way before the ESXi 4.1 went out I wrote an article about ESXi 4 which was not supporting serial ports. Serial ports are used for locally attached serial devices like a FAX/modems or some UPS devices. This […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Serial port ESXi 4.1, serial port VMware, use serial port in ESXi 4.1, Virtual machine serial port

Backup and recovery Advanced Server from Acronis integrates into vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

vCenter Integration with Acronis Backup and recovery Advanced Server. In one of my previous videos I showed you the utilization of Acronis for Exchange. This backup solution is suitable for backing up and restoring e-mail servers running Microsoft Exchange. And the restore individual e-mail feature of this solution is just great. The e-mail backup/recovery solution […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Acronis Server Backup, Image Server Backup

How to install ESXi 4.1 inside of VMware Workstation 7.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Run the latest VMware Hypervisor ESXi 4.1 in 7 minutes. In this new video which is destined to people who do not know that with VMware there is the amazing possibility to Install and test and run the latest hypervisor as a Virtual Machine. By using VMware Workstation 7.1 I’ll show you the install and […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: ESXi 4.1, ESXi 4.1 as a VM, Install ESXi 4.1 inside VMware Workstation 7.1

150 new features or enhancements in vSphere 4.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware vSphere 4.1 released this morning. The huge amount of new features in vSphere 4.1 are phenomenal.  We thought that the 4.1 update of VMware vSphere we’ll talk about Storage I/O, memory compression and few others…. but we would not imagine a such a long list of new features and improvements. The 4.1 update its […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere 4.1, vSphere 4.1, What's new in vSphere 4.1

Acronis Disk Director Home 11 review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 11, 2010

Acronis Disk Director 11 for home users. I recently helped a friend of mine to recover his PC. What happened with his computer was, that he erased by error a data partition on his system running XP.  Since I knew that at Acronis they have a tools for recovering lost partitions, I used the latest […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Acronis Disk Director 11 Home, Home partitionning software, Partitionning Software Acronis

vMotion for SMB market with vSphere 4.1 Essentials Plus

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

vSphere 4.1 will be announced the 13th of July. The announcement is not official yet from the VMware Side, I’m referring to Virtualization.info, which announced the news. The new vSphere 4.1 will be officially announced the 13th of July 2010. Next Tuesday. Great news for the SMB market which did not benefit until now some […]

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Personalized install of VMware tools

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 8, 2010

Installation personalized of VMware Tools. As I wrote in my previous article, sometimes when you’re using third parties backup agents which installs itself inside of the VM (cause of Symantec BE 2010) there is a need for not installing the full package of vmware tools. You can proceed with a  personalized install of VMware tools […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware tools selection install, VMware Tools update, VSS quiescing, VSS support VMware

Troubleshoot virtual machine VSS snapshot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 16, 2017

VSS providers conflicts. In case you’re using Symantec BackupExec 2010 as a backup solution for your Virtual Infrastructure running Vmware vSphere 4, you might be founding yourself in curious situations when your backup jobs might finish right (but sometimes not). By digging deep inside of log files together with Symantec support, we found an issue […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Problems VSS snapshots, Vmware vSphere backup Symantec 2010, VSS issue Symantec, VSS snapshots conflicts

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

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