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Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: trouble install vmware tools, VMware tools, vmware tools troubleshooting

See a list of Storage Array Type Plugins on ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Configuring ALUA – Asymetric Logical Unit Access I was configufing a mutlipath for a Eternus DX 60 storage SAN and there is a section there on configuring ALUA. (Asymetric Logical Unit Access). Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) is a standard-based method for discovering and managing multiple paths to a SCSI LUN. It is described in […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Eternus dx60, MRU, SATP rules, storage

New whitepaper released on PVSCSI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

New test of PVSCSI adapter compared to LSI Logic SAS. Few weeks back I pointed out a VMware KB article surrounding a question when to use PVSCSI. If it’s good idea or not using it for VMs with lower load or not. The article was burried here in the quantity of posts since… Today I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: paravirtualized SCSI Adapter, PVSCSI white paper, VMware PVSCSI or LSI logic

Enable Jumbo Frames in ESXi 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

To enable jumbo frames. Since Jumbo Frames are not enabled by default. It can’t since when you install ESXi 4, by default there is only one vSwitch and console and then you only start to build your network configuration. And you will not want to enable jumbo frames for ALL your networks and switches neither. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: enable jumbo frames Vmware Vsphere, Jumbo Frames

How-to troubleshoot iSCSI connection to your SAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 14, 2010

When you can’t see your LUN… There is several ways to troubleshoot an iSCSI connections. First of all, you should make sure that you can ping your iscsi network interface of your SAN. For this you can use command ping or you can use command vmkping. For example you type: vmkping  192.168.5.10 where this IP […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: iSCSI SAN Configuraion, ISCSI VMware, Troubleshooting iscsi, vmkping command, VMware iSCSI SAN Troubleshooting

Starwind with ISCSI SAN Software can do High Availability for you…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

High availability feature tested from Starwind  ISCSI SAN Software. This is a follow up post for setup High Availability feature with Starwindsoftware’s ISCSI SAN. In the first part I simply showed what’s my lab configuratio will look like and what I will need to test the HA feature. I basically took 2 VMs running 2003 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind HA, Starwind SAN software, Starwind Software, StarwindSoftware High Availability

Purge old data from vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Shrink vCenter Database. Update: For vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5, see the To truncate all performance data from vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5 section in Reducing the size of the vCenter Server database when the rollup scripts take a long time to run (1007453). SQL Express 2005/2008 (vCenter Server 5.x is bundled with SQL Express […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: how-to purge data from vCenter, shrink database, shrink vCenter Database VMware, vCenter Database, VMware purge data vCener

NIC Teaming configuration video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 14, 2010

NIC Teaming video. In this video you’ll see that NIC teaming feature is quite easy to configure. This video comes from VMware KB and I cant’s say this often enough, the guys there are producing some high quality content there…. 😎 With NIC teaming in place you won’t fear material failure any more, because the […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: NIC teaming vmware, NIC teaming vmware vSphere, video NIC teaming, vSphere 4 NIC Teaming

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

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