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How-to Build a custom ISO with VMware tools for Nested ESXi

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Yesterday’s post about VMware Tools for Nested ESXi hosts (a VIB – vSphere Installation Bundle) – which allows installing VMware tools in VM running nested ESXi is an exciting functionality for home labbers and people struggling to get more physical hosts to play with in the lab. The VMware Tools for Nested ESXi adds possibility to […]

A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi

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During VMworld Barcelona the news about upcoming VMware tools for Nested ESXi first came out. And after a quick confirmation with @lamw while there that a new cool fling was born, it’s a good news for the whole virtualization community. For many of you that are using nested ESXi, for learning or demoing VMware solutions, the […]

Privacy Manager for Chrome might be your interest

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Privacy Manager is a Chrome extension which allows quickly tweak your privacy settings. In a small window you can quickly setup the basic, but also more advanced options. You can control the downloads, cleaning startup options, delete junk files, manage cookies and network traffic. All this in very cool manner – from a small pop-up […]

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring poster

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There is a cool poster available, together with a video explaining memory management in vSphere 5. The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram explains not only the four principal memory management techniques that vSphere 5 uses, but the video points out also another aspect which is important – memory overhead. Memory overhead depends how […]

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Free VMworld Session

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Another free session I want to point out is the VSAN session by Vijay Ramachadran and Christos Karamanolis from VMware. You’ll learn how VSAN works and see some under the covers functions that makes VSAN so exciting new technology for the near future. They also brings the topic of price you’re paying for magnetic disks […]

Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware 5.x – Free E-learning

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There is a new Free E-learning course provided by VMware Education, which allows you to follow online training called Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware. It’s a 3 hours long training which gives you a good overview on how to architect a deployment of Microsoft SQL Server in vSphere environments considering SQL licensing policies and […]

Linked Clone GUI Tool called LCTree – a Fling

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Another usefull utility allowing to display linked clones in hierarchical view of linked clones of VMs from vCloud Director. There are two VCD version which can be used with, the 1.5 and 5.1 (5.5 is not on the list yet). Also you’ll need Java Runtime Environment 6 installed on your workstation in order to have the […]

Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 Poster of component architecture – Free Download

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If you collection freebies, this might be your interest. With the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 few days back, there is a new poster(s) available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. A poster showing the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V component Architecture, which can be […]

vSphere Essentials and Veeam Free Edition Tips

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vSphere Essentials does not offer vMotion functionality, only vSphere Essentials Plus and higher editions. Even if you have installed vCenter server and managing the  environment without having vmotion, you cannot move VMs from one ESXi host to another without much downtime. Here are some Veeam Free Edition Tips. Just download the Veeam trial and play with full […]