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VMware Converter 4.0.1 and Thin provisionning

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2009

VMware Converter 4.0.1 is Free Tool now fully compatible with vSphere 4. One of the great features is Thin Provisionning. What is this? The name is a bit confusing, but in real it’s really great, because it saves you tonnes of diskspace. Oh yes!! When you converting your physical server into virtual, you can chose […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: thin provisionning, VMware Converter 4.1, VMware vSphere 4.0

How-to connect ESXi, vSphere to Openfiler iSCSI NAS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 1, 2015

How-to connect ESX Server to Openfiler iSCSI NAS. Now that we are in the ESXi era we can test it in a lab environment with a iSCSI NAS freeware solution Openfiler. Few months ago I wrote an article about how to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESXi. That blogpost was a step-by-step procedure […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: connection ESX Openfiler, Connection vSphere Openfiler, vSphere iSCSI Openfiler

Find out if Intel-VT or AMD-V enabled in the BIOS without rebooting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

How-to findout without reboot if the Intel VT or AMD-V are enabled in the BIOS. When you working with VMotion, Enhanced VMotion Capability (EVC), or 64bit virtual machine performance, you must make sure if Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) are enabled in the BIOS. This article provides a method to determine if […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: AMD-V, Intel VT

Starwind V2V Converter – easily convert your VMs from VHD to VMDK

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2009

StarWind V2V Converter helps you to convert VHD to VMDK and vice versa. So if You are Hyper-V or Virtual PC user you can convert your virtual hard disks to VMware VMDK format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image, but creates […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind, Starwind V2V converter, V2V, V2V Converter

How-to install ESXi 4.0 on USB memory Key

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Update: You should really check the latest post on How to create bootable VMware ESXi 5 U1 by using VMware Player for Free – It’s the fastest and easiest method to create bootable USB memory stick with the latest Free VMware ESXi 5 U1 hypervisor. Written in the past (some time ago…) , I published […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4 Memory Stick, ESXi 4.0 USB, ESXi 4.0 vSphere USB, ESXi USB Stick

New books about vSphere 4 are here and others are comming

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 16, 2017

Need to master new vSphere 4? How about buying a book? I’m really supprised that number of books about the new vSphere 4 are already available (or possible to command at least). VMware vSphere 4 was released just few feeks ago and many new books are already in stores. 01. Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (For […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Administration vSphere, Security vSphere, VMware vSphere 4 books, vSphere Books, vSphere for dummies

Convert any Windows server in a free SAN for your ESX/vSphere lab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2012

In case you are not using free Openfiler under Linux for your VMware ESX Server/vSphere 4 homelab (if you don’t like linux for example…) there is a solution for you. A company called StarWind is providing for free a Software allowing to create an iSCSI Target for your VMware Infrastructure (up to 2 Tb capcity […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: free SAN for Windows, VMware free SAN storage, vSphere SAN

30% Greater Consolidation in vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 10, 2009

vSphere 4 offers 30 % greater consolidation. If in your existing ESX Server infrastructure you were able to achive some consolidation ratios. Then if you’re going for the vSphere this year you’ll be able to gain 30% more consolidation ratio….. … So if you’re an existing customer today and you have a 100 host deployment […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere, vSphere 4

Top 10 Free tools for VMware to manage your Virtual Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2019

My selection of freeware tools to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. Update: You might find an updated version of this list on a Dedicated Page of my Website here: www.vladan.fr/free-tools-vmware….. Time to time is a good move to share with the others my tools that I’m using to manage and administer VI infrastructure, but not only… […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESX server tools, management tools, Top 10 tools, VI freeware tools

Connecting iOmega 2T to an ESX host

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 21, 2017

Some of you might think to buy a NAS for you ESX home lab. There is one cute little device I had a chance to play with recently. It’s the iOmega StorCenter Pro iX2. The cool think is that even this little device which you can found in a store for 200 Euros, is on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Homelab NAS, NAS for Homelab, NAS Storage, vSphere

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