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VMware Backup Recovery solution upgraded to 1.0.1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 14, 2009

VMware Data Recovery is a Backup solution integrated into a SMB package VMware vSphere Essentials Plus and higher. This is a real graphical backup solution to provide recovery/backup for your VMs. Backup recovery it’s actualy VM appliance (yes, virtual machine) which operates inside of your environement. Data Recovery | 07 JULY 2009 | Build 176771 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Backup Virtual Infrastructure VMware, VMware Data Recovery, VMware update Data Recovery

Recreate a missing VMDK header file

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

If your VMDK file is lost. How do I found out? It’s simple, if you don’t see your usual vmdk file through the VI browser, and you see some kind of file with yourfile-flat.vmdk, then you lost your descriptor file. Then it happens that your VM does not want to start. Sure, you can restore from […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: recover VMDK, recreate missing VMDK (header) file, troubleshooting VMDK, VM start trouble, Vmdk, VMDK lost, VMDK-flat

vCenter 2.5 update 5 is available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

There is an 5th update for vCenter 2.5 available since few days. What’s new? Much higher consolidation ration ratio in VMware HA (high availability) clusters. High availability is a feature in ESX server architecture, which enables failover (with interrruption of service) on your physical hosts running ESX. If one physical ESX server goes down the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: High Availability

VMware has put online new Online book about VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 14, 2009

This book is published in the same manner that we use to find informations from Microsoft Technet. It means that you have a webpage with two frames. On the left side there are menus which are expandable and on the right side you are able to see the individual chapters. This information is intended for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to vSphere install, VMware vSphere 4, VMware vSphere Online Book, vSphere Online ressources

Mastering vSphere 4 by Scott Lowe in pre-order on Amazon

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 11, 2009

In case you don’t know (I know that you do), there is a new book from Scott Lowe – Mastering vSphere 4. Scott is very active author on his blog and his blog is one of them that I visit on daily basics, because I’m subscribed to his RSS Feed. His new book offers a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 4 Book

Another Free product – Veeam Business View

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Veeam Business view is another free product from VEEAM. Everybody knows Veeam Fast SCP, Veeam Monitor. You can check  other Top 10 Freeware tools to manage Virtual Infrastructur that I’m using. VEEAM Business View is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server 2.x and 4.0. As for now the product is not yet integrated Veeam Monitor and Veeam Backup & Replication. It’s just a question of days […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Freeware for ESX, Freeware for vSphere, Manage vSphere, VEEAM Business View, Veeam Freeware

How to remove VMware Tools manually if uninstall or upgrade finish with error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 2, 2015

In today’s post I’ll show How to remove VMware Tools manually. I was migrating some VMs to newly deployed ESXi host, and I was also upgrading to the latest Virtual Hardware some guest Os. After I wanted to update VMware tools in those VMs, but I run into a problem. Then I had a trouble […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to uninstall VMware Tools, VMware tools, VMware Tools uninstall error

Improvements in vSphere with a new paravirtualized adapter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

New paravirtualized SCSI adapter is more optimized SCSI adapter than the LSI virtual Adapter. This adapter and many more other enhancements are part of new virtual machine hardware version 7 in vSphere 4. VMware’s new paravirtualized SCSI adapter (pvSCSI) offers 12% improvement in throughput at 18% less CPU cost compared to LSI virtual adapter. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: paravirtualized SCSI Adapter, pvSCSI, VMware pvSCSI

Wmware Studio for developing OVF – first look

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

What is VMware Studio? I did not really know about VMware studio before. Sure, I knew that there was a OVF format and when you want to deploy a new VM from a OVF format, but a product which permit the actual development phase I was not aware of. Not until I found some info […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Open Virtualization Format, OVF format, VM, VMware Studio 2.0

Free tools from PHD virtual

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

In one of my last articles I wrote about PHD Virtual’s esXpress there were some great free tools I found about on the PHD Virtual’s website. Sho why not tho share this with you guys.. Virtual SAN 1.0.0 – It’s a virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server. It uses the local disks which […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX management, Free tools ESX, Freeware ESX management tools

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