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No more tweaks of VMX files. With VMware Workstation 7 you will be able to run ESX 4 with nested VMs without any tweaks.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2012

VMware Workstation 7 Release Candidate is available. With that there some great news for you whether you trying to install and run ESX 4 inside of VMware Workstation. That means that you no longer need to edit manually the VMX configuration files when you wan to test and run ESX 4 as a guest inside […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: how to run ESX 4 inside VMware Workstation, Release Candidate VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation 7

VMware Player 3.0 with some great new features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Player 3.0 in Release Candidate. If you are fan of Virtualization and need a Free solution for testing multiple Operating Systems, you can now try freshly released (curently in Release Candidate) VMware Player 3.0. Latest release is 197124. View VMware Player Getting Started Guide Many people don’t know that with VMware Player you can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware Player, VMware Player 3.0 RC

My vExpert Award has just arrived at the Reunion Island…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

I received my vExpert Award I thought that it would have take much more time to arrived here, but the envelope showed that it was posted the 24th of September and it arrived the 1st October. Just about a week only… -:) Even that we live at a beautiful tropical Island, we do have the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vExpert 2009, Vladan SEGET

ITQ vLan and portGroup manager FREE utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

There is one more tool I want to talk about and which is cool. The author is Flores Eken from ITQ Consultancy in the Netherlands is an enthusiast VMware SDK programmer. He wrote this application in C# based on the new ESX3.x /VC2.x SDK, but it works in ESX 4 I tested it. This tool […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free tool Virtual Infrastructure, Management vLAN, Management VMware Port groups

Vmware Data Recovery Part 4 – How-to Restore files inside of your VM Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2011

VMware Data Recovery is a backup solution which cames with VMware Essential Plus destined for SMB, but you can protect up to 100 Virtual Machines…. In previous parts you were able to see: Deployment/Installation inside vCenter and basic network configuration – Part 1 Vmware Data Recovery – your First backup – Part 2 How-to restore […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup solution Virtual Infrastructure, VDR, VMware Data Recovery Video

How to clone a Virtual machine in ESX Server video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2017

With Trainsignal’s Videos everything looks easy. In case you don’t know Trainsignal and their Great VMware vSphere Video Learning courses, I invite you to follow this link and see some solid made videos from David Davis. Watch some more free videos here: Running vSphere inside a VMware Workstation Fault tolerance – an ultimate protection for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Video learning Trainsignal

Some cool free tools from run-virtual.com

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

In case you did not discovered yet until today, there are some cool tools on run-virtual.com. Richard Garsthagen does great job providing all those tools from his blog. So here are thee tools. I did not test all of them, there are quite a few…Only one of them did not work for me. I do […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Tools, Monitoring Tools Virtual Infrastructure, VMware Free tools

VMware ESXi was created by a French guy !!!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

The origin of the project was born by a French Guy Olivier Crémel I was quite surprised when I found the info on one of the blogs I’m subscribed via RSS. If you do not know what is RSS and how smart is to use it just follow this link…. You might consider to subscribe […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, ESXi was born, VMware ESXi 4, vSphere 4

Best practices for Installing ESX 4 with custom partitionning scheme

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 24, 2009

What’s the best practices to patition your ESX server installation? When you go and install ESX 4, its better to take some time and go for the custom partitioning scheme. Because when you just go with the default or you choose to partition the bad way… you might need to move your partitions afterwards or […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Best practices Service console partitions, Good practices ESX 4 partitions, Partitions ESX 4, Service console ESX 4 partitions

Virtualizing Microsoft Active Directory

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Things to remember and keep in a safe place when you go and run Active Directory in a VMs: In my experience I run a virtual infrastructure since several years. On my laptop in VMware Workstation or Virtual PC. In my homelab where I run ESXi4. But if you’re new to virtualization or you are […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Active Directory on VMware, Microsoft Active Directory VMware, Virtualize AD, VMware With Active Directory

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