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Backing up Free version of VMware ESXi 4 with Free VCBGhetto v.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Free backup tool GhettoVCB2 was released. There has been new version of free script for backing up the VMware’s free version of ESXi 4 . As you shoud know (and I’m sure you do), with the free version of ESXi you don’t have a console (unless you use the unsupported mode – not recommended, only […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Free Backup ESXi 4, GhettoVCB2, VMware ESXi 4 Free Backup tool

VMware vSphere 4 DRS video and how-to do a configuration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 5, 2009

Vmware vSphere 4 configuration in a DRS cluster. This video comes from David Davis, the author of Trainsignal’s great video learning course for VMware vSphere 4 . Sometimes you need to configure some rules in a DRS cluster to fits your needs in your environment. For example you need 2 VMs to always run on […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: DRS cluster configuration, VMware DRS, VMware DRS video

Thick or thin, that is a question?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2013

New performance whitepaper from VROOM blog. If you ever doubted any performance issues due to using Thin provisioned disks, you should read this whitepaper. In fact there are just very little performance loss (if any) when using thin disks. The benefit of using thin disks over thick disks is quite big as you can save tons […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Thin Disk performance, Thin disk vSphere, Thin vs Thick, VMware vSphere Thin provisioning

Passed VMware VCP 4 certification exam

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

VMware VCP-410 passed I don’t think that there is many people like me. Just look. I was born in Czech Republic, then with the life going on I’m now French and I live at a beautiful Tropical Island called Reunion (FR) in Indian Ocean. For your information it’s close to Mauritius. Anyway. Since at the […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: VCP 4, VCP 4 exam, VCP exam, VMware VCP, VMware VCP 4

P2V ramblings with OEM server installation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 27, 2013

Windows OEM license installed on physical Server can’t really be P2V. Or yes? It just came it as an evidence for me because it already happened to me in my production environment several times, but it’s not evident for everybody. So just a little remember. Especially when you are just started learning about virtualization and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: P2V on OEM, VMware P2V

Windows 7 and VMware VI client issue fixed with official KB

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

When you want to run VI client on Windows 7 recently released or on Windows 2008 Server R2 The problem was known for some time now, and the bloggers community found a workaround quite quickly. VMware was a bit late to officially fix this trouble with this official KB article: Cannot launch vSphere Client after […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 4 VI client error, Windows 7 error VI client, Windows 7 VI client

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

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