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Using storage vMotion or using an Extent to gain space on the LUN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

VMFS – Virtual Machine File Cluster with a possibility to dynamically expand a volume. I found this video on YouTube, where Satyam Vaghani – Senior VMware Engineer – explains which choice customers are having when they short on space on their LUN. Basically the VMFS file system has the possibility to make your datastore larger […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: LUN out of Space, Storage VMotion, using Extends, VMFS, VMware Storage vMotion

New Website Design of VMware Website and new product launch – VMware View 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2009

VMware View 4 announced together with new design of VMware Website. Together with a launch of new design of VMware Website there is a new product launch – VMware View 4. Desktop Virtualization platform. One of the new features is PCoIP, which is a technology that is used by View 4 especially for low bandwidth […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: PCoIP VMware, View 4, VMware View 4

How-to manage licenses in VMware vSphere 4 video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 4, 2009

Managing licensing keys in vCenter This video from VMware Kb blog is showing that managing licensing keys in vSphere is made much more easier than it was the case in ESX 3. Basically what you need to do to manage your licenses is that you need to access with your Virtual Infrastructure client (VI client) […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: licensing vSphere 4, manage licenses vSphere 4, video vSphere 4 licensing, vSphere Licensing how-to video

Expand Virtual disk of Windows 7 VW with VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

Expanding Windows 7 virtual hard drive. Quick how-to, real easy to do. You need no tools to achieve this. You just need a copy of VMware Workstation. When you run into a situation that you under-estimated your prevision for your Virtual Machine Disk size. You installed lot’s of software and you became running out of […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Grow Hard Disk in VM, Grow VM's Disks, VMware Workstation 7

Thin provisioning how could you live without it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

If you just starting with VMware Virtualization and want to learn some new features comming with vSphere 4 just read on. Thin provisioning feature which comes with vSphere 4 is cool enough to talk about . Actually I’m even asking myself how come that I could live without it? Thin provisioning can save you a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Thin provisioning ESX 4, thin provisioning ESXi 4, Thin Provisioning vSphere

Free online video learning courses for VMware Workstation users

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

With the recent release of the new version of VMware Workstation 7, there is a new offer for a free online multimedia training on VMware’s Website. You can watch free videos on you own pace. There are 3 modules you can follow. Module 1: VMware Workstation Overview Module 2: Getting Started with Workstation Module 3: […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free training for VMware Workstation, Video VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation 7, VMware Workstation Training

You can really play now with VMware Workstation 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

The coolest new feature of VMware workstation 7 is… Of course to run ESX 4 server as a VM…. Some screenshots here.  Now you can fully leverage the possibility to configure and run up to 10 NICs on your virtual ESX 4 …!!! This ans many more feeatures in the new VMware Workstation 7. Upgrade […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: New feature in VMware Workstation 7, Run ESX 4 as a VM, VMware Workstation 7

Using tasks, events and alarms in vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

Today I watched a video from the second DVD of the new Trainsignal’s vSphere 4 learning course. In this video David Davis explained to me what for are tasks, scheduled tasks, how to use them. Really cool stuff. I did not know that the configuration of SNNP inside vCenter was so easy…. Still inside of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4 video, Training ESX 4, Training VMware, VCP training, Video learning Trainsignal vSphere 4, vSphere 4

Veeam Backup and recovery – Changed block tracking and vSphere API

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 24, 2013

Veeam Backup and recovery was during the last week in the center of tweets and forum posts. The announced new version of VEEAM backup I already talked about in my blog post few weeks ago has finally arrived. What makes VEEAM so desired by all the virtual community? What’s hot? Earlier this year the 3.1 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup 4, Veeam backup and Recovery 4

“Error unable to access a file since it is locked” – how did I do to save my day

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 27, 2009

I had this error in my lab when I was trying to power on a virtual machine with Exchange 2007 installed in it. It’s a testing VM. Since It’s testing VM I did not keep any backup for this VM. I might should….. -:( But then… what to do? I had two options: 01. Google […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Data Recovery VM, unable to access a file since it is locked, V2V, Vmdk, VmWare Converter

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