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Performance best practices for SRM 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

New pdf from VMware available for SRM 4 for performance and best practices. You can find the whitepaper at the VMware Website on the product page for SRM 4. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is one of the products beeing used to protect against a disaster of entire datacenter. The product can recover in […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: SRM 4 best practices, VMware SRM 4, VMware SRM 4 Performance best practices

Revisiting the DRS cluster with vSphere 4 video learning course

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2012

Revisiting DRS video from Train Signal learning course for vSphere 4 UPDATE: there is an additional course available called vSphere Pro Training vol.1 , which will teach you VMware View, Thinapp, and Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed switches… Purchased together you save 100$. See on this post. I wanted to revisit the videos from Trainsignal’s vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: DRS cluster video, Training vSphere 4, VMware DRS, vSphere 4 Training, vSphere 4 video learning course

Jumbo frames are supported only on VMxnet 3 and enhanced VMxnet

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 4, 2009

VMXNET and VMXNET3 are the only adapters that works with Jumbo Frames. If you trying to configure and use Jumbo frames to optimize your VI infrastructure, you should only use vmxnet (and vmxnet3) virtual adapters for that. The other adapters seems to accept the configuration for the MTU, but they’re not actually working like they […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Enanced VMxnet, iSCSI Jumbo Frames, Jumbo Frames, vmxnet 3

Arkeia Free for ESXi – to backup your ESXi 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Free version of Arkeia Software can backup your ESXi 4 Free version up to 250Gigs. Arkeia Network Backup v 8.1 is a linux Appliance in OVF format which you can download. There is a Free version – see Wiki info and paid version. You must register for the license. There are some limitations to the […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup ESXi 4, ESXi 4, how-to backup ESXi 4 Free, VMware ESXi 4

Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed on Server with Xeon 5500 Nehalem processor

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

2008 Server with Hyper-V role installed does not like Nehalem processors? Apparently this problem is known since September… It’s been announced by Intel. Processors affected are: AAK119 (Xeon 5500), AAM123 (Xeon 3500), AAO89 (Xeon 3400), AAJ121 (Core i7-900) and AAN87 (Core i7-800, Core i5) “In an article outlining hidden strife in the processor world, Andreas […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Hyper-V, Hyper-V with 2008 R2, Microsoft

Changement from LSilogic paralel into pvscsi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 20, 2017

How to avoid BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) when you want to change from LSI Logic parallel into PVSCSI. Before update 1 you could only use the new PVSCSI adapter for your DATA disks in your VMs. The process is kind of a workaround. Add a second hard disk to your VM with the PVSCSI adapter. […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to change from LSI Logic paralel into PVSCSI, LSI logic into PVSCSI, pvSCSI

vCloud Express by VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Running your infrastructure in the cloud. What is it? For now, the service is still in BETA. You pay for using a server, which is located in service provider’s datacenter. And basically you pay per hour. You for example can choose to create and deploy VM from list of OS availables etc.. It’s coming, the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCloud express, VMware vCloud Express

Project Onyx, for non scripting people…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 5, 2009

Project ONYX is a very interesting initiative from The PowerCLI team. What is Onyx and how it can helps you to write scripts. I never write scripts. I’m not a programmer. The only think I can do is to adapt existing scripts a little.. that’s all. I’m sure that I’m not alone. Not everyone wants […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Carter Shanklin, PowerCLI team, Project Onyx, scripting VMware

Learn for free with this VMware course for VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

This offer is still On. I wanted to bring it up again. This free vmware learning course for VMware Workstation 7 to get you started. It runs as all VMware online learning on Macromedia’s Breeze technology. (now Adobe). This online learning course has a very good video and sound quality. Here is the course outline: […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Free Training VMware, VMware Learning Online, VMware online learning Workstation, VMware Workstation 7

New feature with VMware vSphere Update 1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 24, 2009

VMware vSphere Agent Pre-upgrade Check One of the visible thinks you can see when you first execute the installation of vCenter Server is Agent Pre-Upgrade check. What is it?  This feature just ensure that the update process will go well.  It check if all the hosts in your environment are having the necessary pre-requisites, so […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4 update, ESXi 4 update, vSphere update

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