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What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 19, 2017

What is VMware VMA?

What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)? It’s basically a virtual machine which runs on a Linux distribution. This VM can be used as a VM where you’ll run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter server systems. One of the agents which are ofter run within VMA are agents for UPS systems. VMA has […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vSphere Management Assistant, vSphere VMA

Scan your PC with an Bootable ISO or USB from AVG

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

AVG rescue CD from Grisoft. Czech company AVG is well known for their antivirus/antispyware solutions. Besides the Free Antivirus solution they provide as an installable version – The AVG 9 Free, there is another tool. It’s an ISO image you can burn to a CD and scan and clean your computer before your Operating system […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Antivirus, Antivirus CD, Free Antivirus, Rescue CD

Use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 25, 2010

Use P2V with VMware Workstation 7 Instead using Vmware Converter standalone client you can use VMware Workstation 7 for P2V. There might be even some advantages. For exemple you might be on the road, at the client’s site, and you want to show to your client that his server is virtualizable and directly do a […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: conversion into virtual environement, P2V, P2V tools, P2V with VMware Workstation

Free disaster recovery and P2V with Clonezilla

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 5, 2018

What is Clonezilla? Like filezilla – a very popular opensource FTP client and server applications, Clonezilla is a free software which I’ll test sonner or later…and which can P2V your physical server into virtual environement running under VMware vSphere 4 for exemple…. Clonezilla helps you to to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Clonezilla, How to P2V linux, P2V

Troubleshooting Fault Tolerance in vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

VMware Fault Tolerance questions. Great doc released through VMware KB I just discovered about explaining all about Fault Tolerance and also how to troubleshoot the error messages when you try to activate this feature. In this KB you’ll find how to troubleshoot, when to activate, when the option is available and when it’s grayed out… […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Fault Tolerance FAQ, VMware Fault Tolerance

Veeam’s secret weapon – SureBackup

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

SureBackup – a revolution for backups of Virtual Infrastructure. I assisted at the bloggers meeting last night with Doug Hazelman from VEEAM Software. Doug had already did a pre-post on Veeam company’s blog veeammeup.com where he did not showed any new information, but only analyst’s reactions. The announcement has been done officially today on Veeam’s […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Backup and Replication, Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam SureBackup

My first tests of Kingston SSD drive

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Taking Kingston for a spin… In my first test for the SSD drive I bought recently I wanted to do a compare to SATA drives. In my test I’m using VMware Workstation 7 and a VM placed on the SSD drive at first. Then I’ll move this VM to a SATA drive and see what’s […]

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Testing Eric Sloof’s vmClient

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

New lightweight tool created by Eric Sloof. Eric Sloof’s blog was one of the first I started to follow in my early days when I was just starting to learn about  Virtual Infrastructure. Before that I was more into physical hardware, played a lot with VMware Workstation and Virtual PC to learn stuff. But times […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Eric Sloof, NTPRO.nl, vmClient, VMware vSphere 4

Technical support escalation explained

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

What is technical support escalation? With VMware you have a support for your desktop or server virtualization products. But after submitting a support request, you can also request an escalation. What’ts this? Escalation can be Service Based or product based. Service based can be asked for in a case for example that a when: impact […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Escalation, Escalation support, How to get support, Support VMware, Technical support escalation VMware

How to register License key for a desktop products

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

This kb article I found explains the basics. What do you need to do for registering license for a desktop product bought at VMware. If you don’t you might not be able to come back and get updates for your products. 1. Navigate to the VMware Account Management page by going to www.vmware.com/account. 2. Log […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: license register vmware, register license

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