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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

How-to enable PvSCSI and when

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

VMware Paravirtualized SCSI (PVSCSI driver) Introduced with vSphere 4 this driver can speed up and offload CPU.  VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter is able to achieve 12% more throughput with 18% less CPU cost compared to the LSI virtual adapter. vSphere ships with this new high-performance virtual storage adapter. Bus logic and LSI logic were […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Install PVSCSI, pvSCSI, vSphere PVSCSI setup

Wish list of features for VMware Data Recovery

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

VMware DATA Recovery (VDR) is great product with relatively simple usage. You could follow through my posts the Installation and configuration, Backup, Recovery and File Level Restore. There are also a step-by-step videos in those posts. But as a user I saw that other users are having little difficulties to use the FLR restore utility […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: backup vmware, FLR, VDR, VMware Data Recovery

Use gravatar – It’s free…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Many blogs runs under WordPress, best blogging platform today. The gravatar support is native in WordPress. Just create your profile at Gravatar and add a Image. It makes the comment section just more sexy !! I’m writing about this because Eric Gray from vCritical has pointed this out. For me it’s obvious but for the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Avatar, Gravatar, Wordpress

Great tip how-to boot from USB stick inside of VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2017

A tip pointed by Ivo Beerens. By using my RSS Reader to stay updated on blogs in the Virtualization Sphere I checked this post from Ivo. It’s a great tip. What’s about? Basically when you want to test ESXi 4 installation to the USB Stick  you’ll want to follow my post, which I’ve done in […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Boot Manager, Boot USB VMware workstation, Desktop Virtualization, PLOP

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