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Use your Windows server as a shared Storage for your ESX Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2012

Ok, I already posted a guide about how to configure Openfiler Linux for free as a shared storage for your Virtual Infrastructure. If you’re not into linux, you can just try Starwind for free too…. (up to 2 TB of Data !!). Here is a PDF guide (it’s for ESX 3.5 but the princip is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: iSCSI SAN, iSCSI SAN on Windows, SAN on Windows, Starwind Software

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

Wmware Studio for developing OVF – first look

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

What is VMware Studio? I did not really know about VMware studio before. Sure, I knew that there was a OVF format and when you want to deploy a new VM from a OVF format, but a product which permit the actual development phase I was not aware of. Not until I found some info […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Open Virtualization Format, OVF format, VM, VMware Studio 2.0

Nice add on for Putty – PuTTy Connection Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 20, 2017

What is VMware VMA?

Everybody knows PuTTy. There is PuTTy classic and PuTTy as a Portable application. I mentioned PuTTy in my post Top 10 Free tools to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. What I did not know is that there is a cool little plugin (add-on) for PuTTy which enables having tabbed multiple instances of PuTTy. The software is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Add on Putty, Putty Connection Manager

VESI – sponsored initiative of Vizioncore might be a great way for us to adopt Powershell

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Are you a programmer? I’m not. That’s why I’m interrested in VESI. What is VESI ? The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative. Who is behind? It’s virtualization expert and author Scott Herold from VMguru.com.  The goal of The VESI community is to further enhance the administrative experience of virtual infrastructures with […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Powershell, VESI, Virtualization EcoShell, Vizioncore VESI

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

Top 10 PowerShell scripts for Virtual Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

I want to share with you the information I found at virtual-strategy.com about Top 10 PowerShell scripts availables today. I think that it’s is a great resource, which should be bookmarked and kept safe and every ESX admin should have an online copy…. So in no ordered list: 1. Quick Migration Script from Mike diPetrillo. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: DRS, ESXi, Mike Dipetrillo, pool calculator, powershell scripts, Server Virtualization, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure, Virtualcenter, virtualization, Vmware, VMware Infrastructure

Howto install ESXi 3.5 update 3 on USB memory key

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How-to Install ESXi 3.5 U3 on USB Stick If you do not want to install VMware ESXi 3.5 update 3 on your local drive, you can just follow a simplified procedure which you’ll find below. You can find detailed information about what’s new in this release at WMware website here. All you need to do […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXi, VMWare ESXi

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