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How to clone a Virtual machine in ESX Server video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2017

With Trainsignal’s Videos everything looks easy. In case you don’t know Trainsignal and their Great VMware vSphere Video Learning courses, I invite you to follow this link and see some solid made videos from David Davis. Watch some more free videos here: Running vSphere inside a VMware Workstation Fault tolerance – an ultimate protection for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Video learning Trainsignal

Some cool free tools from run-virtual.com

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

In case you did not discovered yet until today, there are some cool tools on run-virtual.com. Richard Garsthagen does great job providing all those tools from his blog. So here are thee tools. I did not test all of them, there are quite a few…Only one of them did not work for me. I do […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Tools, Monitoring Tools Virtual Infrastructure, VMware Free tools

VMware ESXi was created by a French guy !!!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

The origin of the project was born by a French Guy Olivier Crémel I was quite surprised when I found the info on one of the blogs I’m subscribed via RSS. If you do not know what is RSS and how smart is to use it just follow this link…. You might consider to subscribe […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, ESXi was born, VMware ESXi 4, vSphere 4

Best practices for Installing ESX 4 with custom partitionning scheme

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 24, 2009

What’s the best practices to patition your ESX server installation? When you go and install ESX 4, its better to take some time and go for the custom partitioning scheme. Because when you just go with the default or you choose to partition the bad way… you might need to move your partitions afterwards or […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Best practices Service console partitions, Good practices ESX 4 partitions, Partitions ESX 4, Service console ESX 4 partitions

Virtualizing Microsoft Active Directory

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Things to remember and keep in a safe place when you go and run Active Directory in a VMs: In my experience I run a virtual infrastructure since several years. On my laptop in VMware Workstation or Virtual PC. In my homelab where I run ESXi4. But if you’re new to virtualization or you are […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Active Directory on VMware, Microsoft Active Directory VMware, Virtualize AD, VMware With Active Directory

Install Linux Backtrack in a VM on VMware Workstation running on Windows 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 22, 2009

Little video I found on Youtube showing how easy is to Install and test Linux Backtrack 4 inside  VMware Workstation runing on Windows 7. VMware Workstation is just tool which I prefer. Most of the IT professionals are using this software from VMware because of the necessity having multiple Operating systems on a Laptop/desktop computer […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Linux Backtrack 4 in a VM, Test Backtrack 4

Optimize your VMs by uninstalling physical hardware after P2V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

After your P2V one of those steps to do at first is the Installation of VMware Tools. Also, not only you should get rid of all the physical hardware in Device manager that’s not used any more but also those software packages which had been used on a physical server to manage the hardware (like […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Optimization P2V, Optimize P2V, VMware P2V

VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not supported with current release… You can install it as a second disk, for your […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to install pvSCSI Linux, pvSCSI, vSphere pvSCSI

Get the best performance from your vSphere 4 infrastructure.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

There is agreat new PDF available concerning the performance issues  tweaks, advices and troubleshooting for your vSphere 4 architecture. If you are a simple admin in a Small business company or a Data-center engineer, this guide is just a must have… The author is Hal Rosenberg and he works as performance engineer at VMware. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Performance Troubleshooting VMware vSphere 4, vSphere 4 performance tweaks, vSphere performance

RVtools from Rob de Veij is updated to 2.6

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Great Freeware tool which is part of my Top 10 Freeware tools I use and recommend was just updated by Rob de Veij on his website Robware.net. Even if in the info page it says that: This application only supports ESX Server 3.x, VirtualCenter 2.x and ESX Server 3i. It’s just that Rob did not […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Freeware VI application, RVTools, RVTools 2.6

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