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Install Linux Backtrack in a VM on VMware Workstation running on Windows 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2009

Little video I found on Youtube showing how easy is to Install and test Linux Backtrack 4 inside  VMware Workstation runing on Windows 7. VMware Workstation is just tool which I prefer. Most of the IT professionals are using this software from VMware because of the necessity having multiple Operating systems on a Laptop/desktop computer […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Linux Backtrack 4 in a VM, Test Backtrack 4

Optimize your VMs by uninstalling physical hardware after P2V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

After your P2V one of those steps to do at first is the Installation of VMware Tools. Also, not only you should get rid of all the physical hardware in Device manager that’s not used any more but also those software packages which had been used on a physical server to manage the hardware (like […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Optimization P2V, Optimize P2V, VMware P2V

VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not supported with current release… You can install it as a second disk, for your […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to install pvSCSI Linux, pvSCSI, vSphere pvSCSI

Get the best performance from your vSphere 4 infrastructure.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

There is agreat new PDF available concerning the performance issues  tweaks, advices and troubleshooting for your vSphere 4 architecture. If you are a simple admin in a Small business company or a Data-center engineer, this guide is just a must have… The author is Hal Rosenberg and he works as performance engineer at VMware. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Performance Troubleshooting VMware vSphere 4, vSphere 4 performance tweaks, vSphere performance

RVtools from Rob de Veij is updated to 2.6

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Great Freeware tool which is part of my Top 10 Freeware tools I use and recommend was just updated by Rob de Veij on his website Robware.net. Even if in the info page it says that: This application only supports ESX Server 3.x, VirtualCenter 2.x and ESX Server 3i. It’s just that Rob did not […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Freeware VI application, RVTools, RVTools 2.6

VMware vSphere 4 passing VCP Exam training links

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

I was trying to find some VCP 4 training links today. Since I slowly starting to prepare to to be ready for taking a VCP exam, I’m not only studying by reading PDFs and watching videos (even if it’s my preffered… ), I also try to do some practice in my home lab too. I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Passing VCP 4 exam, VCP 4, VCP 4 study links, vSphere VCP

Terminals is free rdp connection manager with great features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 4, 2009

Terminals is a Free connection manager. Terminals cames from Microsoft’s open source project hosting site, CodePlex. It’scapable of creating connections using RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet, SSH1, SSH2, ICA Citrix, RAS and HTTP sessions. When you manually creating a connection, you’ve got the choice of the protocol, and then it depens which protocol you are using […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: conncetion Manager, Free RDP connection manager, RDP manager

iOmega IX4 how-to video of configuration for iSCSI and NFS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 10, 2018

If you are fan of iOmega ix2 and ix4 series than you’ll like this post and the video in it. The video is showing that the configuration of the device is fairly straightforward. It’s a shame that the sound it’s quite low, but the presentation is very straightforward. This video comes from Chad SACAC’s Blog. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: configuration iSCSI VMware, iSCSI iOmega ix4, NFS configuration VMware, VMware vSphere iSCSI configuration

Use your Windows server as a shared Storage for your ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2012

Ok, I already posted a guide about how to configure Openfiler Linux for free as a shared storage for your Virtual Infrastructure. If you’re not into linux, you can just try Starwind for free too…. (up to 2 TB of Data !!). Here is a PDF guide (it’s for ESX 3.5 but the princip is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: iSCSI SAN, iSCSI SAN on Windows, SAN on Windows, Starwind Software

Mike Laverick has just announced: Free download of VMware SRM 1.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Mike Laverick has just announced that he made his book available as a Free Download from Lulu. That’s a great move from Mike. As after VMworld he is in early stage of writing the upcoming version which will be updated for  the VMware SRM 4.0 product. VMware SRM is currently in beta. Great possibility for […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free e-book VMware SRM, Mike Laverick, SRM, VMware SRM

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