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Mike Laverick has just announced: Free download of VMware SRM 1.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Mike Laverick has just announced that he made his book available as a Free Download from Lulu. That’s a great move from Mike. As after VMworld he is in early stage of writing the upcoming version which will be updated for  the VMware SRM 4.0 product. VMware SRM is currently in beta. Great possibility for […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free e-book VMware SRM, Mike Laverick, SRM, VMware SRM

VMware VDR – vSphere Data Recovery – part 3 – Restore Your Data

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

VMware VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Restore your Data: In my video series concerning a VMware Backup solution for Virtual Infrastructure – VMware DATA Recovery (VDR), I published Part 1 and Part 2 video series go get started to install and configure. VMware VDR continues with this third video. Today we will watch my […]

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

New video from TrainSignal – Fault Tolerance – an ultimate protection for your VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 11, 2010

Train Signal best selling VMware vSphere 4 video learning course. UPDATE: there is an additional course available called vSphere Pro Training vol.1 , which will teach you VMware View, Thinapp, and Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed switches… Purchased together you save 100$. See on this post. There is a great new video from TrainSignal. It’s a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Fault tolerance, FT, Video Fault Tolerance, VMware ESX 4, VMware FT, vSphere Fault Tolerance Video

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

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