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vMotion for long distance… cool. VMware and vSphere is already in the Sky..

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

vMotion Certified for 200 Kilometers by VMware Now it’s just been certified by VMware that the long distance vMotion is officially supported by VMware. The maximum distance is 200 Kilometers. That’s perfect because our Island has about this distance. From St Denis to St Pierre (Two capitals) there is only about 80 Kilometers… -:). There […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Long Distance vMotion, VMotion, vSphere, vSphere 4

New product from EMC for the SMB and home market

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 10, 2018

This looks like that I could upgrade my Home Lab… -:) New blog post on Chad’s blog makes me really excited. We’ll see some new product family coming soon to the stores. It’s targeted for SMB and home market users. And that’s really interesting. With products which are more easy to use, they are ing […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: EMC home storage, Iomega home storage Lab

vCenter Server Service does not start automaticaly

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

I had this issue with vCenter Server on my home lab. Virtual Center starts before the SQL database it depends on. I found a solution in a KB on VMware’s website. This article provides steps to prevent the race condition from occurring.   VirtualCenter service does not start after reboot. First I checked log files […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCenter Service not started

How-to auto Login to Virtual Center with VI Client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

Is this possible? Oh yes… So what’s this all about? You are able to auto login to your vCenter Server without typing login/password every time. You can do it by using pass through authentication. Simply add the following to your VI Client shortcut (at te End): -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local So the whole line should look like this: […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: passthrough authentication, vSphere passthrough authentication

Three guides on about how to setup iSCSI conection to VMware ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

There is many ways to test iSCSI connection to VMware ESX Server. Sure that there is many different free software which can be used as a shared storage (OpenFiler , Free NAS, EMC Celera (VM) , Xtravirt). It seems tha one of the most popular way is to setup the connection with an Openfiler.  Few […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how to connect openfiler to ESX server, iSCSI conection VMware, Openfiler appliance, Openfiler with VMware ESX

Free Backup solution to backup VMs with GhettoVCBg2 script

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

GhettoVCBg2 script is here for those of you who need to implement a backup of your virtual infrastructure. If you are on a tight budget. You can use this script for free to backup your VMs running under Free edition of ESXi 4 or ESXi 3.5 U2. No need for activating SSH too… The authors, […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup Virtual Infrastructure VMware, GhettoVCB, GhettoVCBg2

VMware Data Recovery – your first backup – part 2 video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware Data Recovery is a product shipped with vSphere essentials plus. It’s GUI product to backup your virtual environement. In my home lab I’m having a physical box with Openfiler configured with iSCSI connection to another physical box running ESXi 4 (evaluation version). Openfiler is a great linux distro that which can provide  you some […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Video Vmware Data Recovery, VM Data Recovery, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Data Recovery Video

Installing ESXi 4 onto USB memory stick using VMware Workstation Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

How-to Install ESXi onto USB Stick – video. Not long time ago I published an article about how to install ESXi 4 onto USB memory stick. It’s a step by step process which needs some tools too… Then Eric Gray has just published a simplified how-to using VMware Workstation for the job. It’s really straightforward […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: ESXi 4 Memory stick install, video ESXi 4 flash drive install, VMware ESXi 4 install on USB flash drive, VMware ESXi4 on USB memory stick

Upgrade vCenter from SQL express edition to SQL might happens sooner than you think

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

During an install of the vCenter you have the possibilities to install SQL server express edition (MSDE) as a database for your vCenter or to install full blown SQL 2005 or SQL 2008. For now, for my tests and deployment I always used this option, since MSDE is fully supported for smaller environments (up to […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: SQL Server 2005 Express instance migration, upgrade SQL Server 2005 Express instance how-to, vCenter SQL Server 2005 Express instance, VMware vCenter SQL upgrade

Windows 7 x32 edition does not use 4 gigs of RAM, did you know?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

Windows 7 is available to MSDN subscribers since yesterday. So I downloaded the 32 bit version to see if I could use all my RAM available on my laptop. As I expected, after a clean install of Windows 7 (x32), I saw in the control panel only 3 Gigs of RAM usable. The exact message […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Windows 7 x32 4GB RAM trouble

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