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VMware ESX – How do I grow virtual disks? How to make your DD larger capacity.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

Grow virtual disks It happened to me several times. You install your VM, you make your configuration and than you install some of your software to do some testings and suddenly you get a prompt that you are out of space. What to do? You can add additional drive to have another storage space, but […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization

How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware ESX 3.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

How-to specify different swapfile location in VMware With the VMware ESX 3.5 you can now specify different location of your swapfiles for your VM’s. This location can be a global location for your VM’s vswp files on an ESX host. Vswp files are created when you power your virtual machine. When you power of your […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization, VMWare ESX

Cool feature for ESX Server 3.5 – VM Bios Delay

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2012

One cool feature that I was wishing to have in the past is the VM Bios Delay. What is it? Nothing is more anoying that when you create new Virtual Machine and you want to boot from a CD. Before you have time to hit F2 or ESC the machine is trying other boot devices […]

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

How-to convert your Acronis file Backup into virtual disk

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

When you are using Acronis True Image Echo Workstation (or Server) to backup and create an image file of your system, you can convert this file into Virtual Disk. You can imagine that you do your backups with Acronis on regular basics and so you can use this virtual disk in VMware ESX Server or […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Acronis

How to easy use ISOs during managing and installing VMs in ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Iso file – what is it? It’s simple. Iso file is an image file of your CD or DVD-ROM or it can be also your own ISO file created from a folder of your choise. Iso Image of your CD rom can be different sizes. Maximum size of an ISO file created from a CD […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization, VMWare ESX

How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs – part 2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 8, 2017

This is the part 2 of How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs. With this how-to, I will show you how-to convert the Image file created using BESR for imaging of your VM into VHD or VMDK. In this procedure, you’ll see the conversion into the VHD file but you can do exactly the […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: BESR, V2P, Vmware

How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VM – Part 1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 8, 2017

V2V Virtual to physical with Symantec. In this article, I’m gonna show you that is possible to use Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery to successfully convert your VMs either into VMware (VMDK) or into Virtual PC (VHD) format. The advantage of using BESR is that you can also use the image of your VM to do […]

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

How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2015

How-to install and manage ESXi Server inside VMWare Workstation 6.5 I’m quite enjoying making those videos. I find that using videos is much more direct than to do a long article. So this time I’m going to show you a video about the installation of ESXi server inside of VMware Workstation. The workstation is actually […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, ESXi, ESXi server, VMWare ESXi

Installation ESX Server inside of VMWare Workstation 6.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

UPDATE: Just check my post showing the installation of ESXi 5 insisde of VMware Workstation. I did one of my first videos. In this video you’ll see that it is possible to install and manage ESX Server even without appropriate hardware. The installation of ESX was possible on a laptop from Fujitsu-Siemes with 4GB of RAM […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Server Virtualization, Vmware

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