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VMware Data Recovery Demo video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 28, 2009

With vSphere there is also new backup program called Data Recovery. There is a quite a lot of new information coming from VMware since the lauch of vSphere. So what Data Recovery is? How it’s works? It is a disk-based backup and recovery solution. Easy to install, because VMware Data Recovery is a virtual machine […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Data Recovery, ESX backup, VMware Data Recovery

vNetwork Distributed Switch – new feature of vSphere 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

One would have to live under the rock not knowing Eric Sloof.… Eric is VMware Certified Instructor and great blogger who do not hesitate to post as often as possible to keep us updated with great news and how-to’s. He is one of my favorite bloggers… -:) In one of his latest posts he is […]

| Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: vNetwork Distributed Switch, vSphere, vSphere 4

Thin provisionning, what? Save diskspace with ESX and vSphere, oh yes…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 23, 2009

I was always very happy with one of the features present in VMware Workstation since few years now. Actually you are able to specify in VMware Workstation when you configure new virtual disk how big the disk will be. But when you specify for example 50 Gigs virtual disk inside Workstation , the disks real […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: thin provisionning, virtual disk space

You have to have 64 bit hardware for vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

The new version of VMware ESX (vSphere 4) will run only on 64-bit CPUs hardware . Mostly the new processors arround are either 32- or 64-bit. Today almost all enterprise servers manufactured today have 64-bit CPUs but you might want to check some of your older servers if they are 64 bits capable or not… […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: 64bits, ESXi, Intel VT, vSphere 4

How to restart management agents on ESXi host

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2023

When you are not able to connect ESXi server to vCenter, or when you cannot connect to ESXi server from VI client it may be necessary to restart the management agents on ESXi host. In today’s post called How to restart management agents on ESXi host we will learn this. Sometimes you have errors when […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi server, restart management agents ESXi

Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

I’m running a VMware Workstation on Vista x64 bits with 2 partitions (c: – system and d: – DATA). Always when I wanted to create a new virtual machine on my VMware Workstation, I had to navigate through all the folders on my c: drive to finally create a folder on a D: drive where […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Vmware, Workstation

Critical Patch for ESX. Download now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

Just for your information, there is a critical patch for ESX to download here. Good news, you don’t need to restart your ESX server. This is a critical patch, so you should run it, after testing, as soon as possible in your infrastructure, as this patch is critical. You can have a look here. KB1009852 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX patches, VMWare ESX

How to change IP address of your ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 28, 2015

There is a time when you need to change the IP adress your ESX host. You can’t do it in the VI client Graphical User Interface. The only thing you can do is to go to the ESX server console. 1.) First of all , you must have physical access to the console. 2.) Put […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Change IP adress ESX, Console ESX IP Change Adress, ESX change IP adress, vswif, vswif0

Step by step video how to install VM inside Virtual Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Step by step procedure for newbies about how to create and how to install VM inside Virtual Infrastructure – running inside VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Using the VI client. In this video, David Davis shows how to do it exactly. Shows all the necessary steps to succeed in creation of a VM inside VMware ESX. Update: You […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: installation OS in a VM, VMWare ESX

How to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESX.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

I wanted to test an Openfiler as a solution for HA and vMotion with ESX Server and vCenter. Using Openfiler is a great way to save some money on expensive SANs and for home lab testing and learning, this choice is just great. I did not have 3 physical boxes (2 for ESX hosts and one for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, HA, iSCSI NAS Storage, iSCSI Openfiler, Openfiler, Server Virtualization, VMotion

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