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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

New PDF – Best practices for NFS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 7, 2010

There has been a new release of a PDF document from VMware. With NFS present in many client’s installation of Virtual Infrastructures, you might want to find out some tips and tweaks for NFS running with VMware vSphere. You’ll be able to find some new tips and tricks for NFS based storage. This new white […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Best Practices on NFS, NFS best practices VMware, VMware Best practices NFS

How-to update VDR to 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

How to update VDR without loosing all restore points and configuration. With the update of VDR – VMware Data recovery the question is how to proceed to an update to the latest version without loosing the configuration settings, backup jobs and the deduplication stores. In my lab I tested the step by step solution provided […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, VMware Backup with VDR, VMware Data Recovery

VMware Released a second update for vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

ESX 4 U2, ESXi U2 and vCenter U2 Released. Together with VMware Data Recovery 1.2 released yesterday, there has been an update for vSphere 4 too. It’s a vSphere 4 U2. About 6 month earlier the U1 was released and there has been some questions, (all the beta users and of course VMware Employees knew) […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4 Update 2, ESXi 4 Update 2, VMware vSphere 4 Update 2, vSphere 4 Update 2

Blogging for sharing, not for being vExperts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Why blog? For sharing. That’s my principal idea since the beginning of my website, (I prefer to call it website, because now of it’s layout it’s more like a e-zine, not a blog … 😎 ). I started to write posts, because I wanted to share for free my step-by-steps, how-to’s, learning experiences with other […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blogging, how to blog, reasons for bloggings, why blogging

Get Free Partition Alignement Tool from Paragon

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

This offer is valuable until the end of June 2010. You’ll get FREE White paper PDF + FREE PAT Tool. Paragon Software offers PAT for free till the end of June. The PAT tool I already reported in one of my previous posts, is part of some Paragon’s products, like HD manager Pro (get free […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: FREE Alignement TOOL, Paragon's Free Partition Alignement Tool

How-to perform a manual integrity check in VDR when you have damaged restore point

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 19, 2013

How to repair damaged restore point in VDR - VMware Data Recovery

Need to initiate a manual integrity check of your Deduplication store? The other day after I return from holidays, that one of the restore points was marked red color in our VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance and that the backups were not executed. The integrity check failed because of that damaged restore point. (BTW you can […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to perform a manual integrity check in VDR, Integrity check Error VDR, Integrity check error VMware Data Recovery

Confirmed as a vExpert 2010

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

This makes me proud… very proud. Exciting news, I received a vExpert 2010 award when I opened my e-mail box this morning. Again, like a last year, the e-mail from John Troyer – The visible man behind the vExpert Award – did sent me an e-mail to announce the good news. Thanks John, and thanks […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: vExpert Award, vExpert Community, vExperts, VMware vExpert, VMware vExperts

how-to power off unresponsive VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 3, 2010

Power Off unresponsive VM. It happens that you rencounter this trouble. A VM does not want to power off or restart. You cannot do anything with that VM so you’ll have to restart your ESX Server. And what if there is a solution? Yes there is. In the video below from VMware KB you’ll see […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Powering off an unresponsive virtual machine on an ESX host

Sysprep Data location with vCenter running on Windows 2008 and 2003

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

VMware vCenter sysprep files location unde Windows 2008 Server

The default location of sysprep files. Sysprep Data location. When you have your vCenter running under Windows 2008, the sysprep files are located at this path: ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep If you’re running vCenter on Windows 2003 R2 x64 then the location is here: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\sysprep Then you’ll see that there are empty folders […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: sysprep files location under 2008, Sysprep files location vcenter on Windows 2003 R2, vCenter Sysprep files location, VMware vCenter 2008

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