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DISM ++ is Free Utility better than the command line version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

DISM plus plus toolkit

DISM ++ is a freeware application which allows managing of WIM images and also your PC. I’d recommend doing a full image backup (with Veeam endpoint for example) before using this software. DISM ++ is Free Utility which is very promising. To manage WIM images and do different Windows optimizations and cleaning. In fact, it is better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: DISM ++ is Free Utility

Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Timeout

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 16, 2017

3 ways to enable ESXi Shell

There are several ways to enable ESXi shell, so we’ll look into it, and also we will also look at an option, to set a timeout setting for the ESXi Shell. This will allow you to set a value (in minutes) which will elapse before you must log in after the ESXi Shell is enabled. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Tip to configure Timeout

How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down – With Nakivo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2016

How to recover vCenter VM via Nakivo

Playing with the lab sometimes break things. If you break an ordinary VM, it does not really matter. But what if the VM is a vCenter VM? Recently that has happened to my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Impossible to connect and dig into the services, to start them up. No VMware snapshot either. But […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Home Lab Tagged With: How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down - With Nakivo

VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test – Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 20, 2016

VMware vCenter server (VCSA 6.5) HA advanced configuration

Recently we have tested new features from VMware vSphere 6.5. We have deployed VCSA 6.5 and via Simple or Advanced configuration we have set up a VCSA HA 3-node cluster. The vCSA HA can protect your vCenter server in case of data store failure or host failure. This post will detail the VMware vCSA 6.5 HA […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Home Lab Tagged With: VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test

VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup – Advanced Configuration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 19, 2016

vCenter 6.5 (VCSA) HA advanced configuration how-to

Last week we have done a little lab test where we have tested the new vCenter Server 6.5 (for VCSA only) called vCenter HA. If you don’t know anything about how it works or what it can do I invite you to check our detailed article on that here – VMware vSphere 6.5 – Native vCenter […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware VCSA 6.5 Active-Passive Setup With Advanced Configuration

How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via Offline Bundle

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 21, 2018

Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via VMware Offline Bundle

During today’s lab post we will do an upgrade from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via CLI and we will be using a zip file called VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle. At the end of the post, you’ll see a video of the process. If you follow this blog on regular basis you can […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 via Offline Bundle

How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 30, 2016

How to create ESXi 6.5 installation/Upgrade USB stick

A few days back we learned about How to upgrade our ESXi 6.0 host via ISO or CD-ROM. Not every server today has a CD-ROM drive, so as an alternative, USB flash drive is usually used. But you need to prepare this USB media and create an installation USB stick first. Today we’ll show you […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 6.5 USB Installer, How to create a USB media with ESXi 6.5 Installation

How to Migrate Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter 6.5 (In-Place)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2019

How to migrate vCenter Server 6.0 to 6.5 Windows (In-place migration)

I have already done a post where I was migrating a Windows based vCenter server 6.0 to VMware VCSA 6.5 here (With video). You could see that during the migration the old vCenter has been automatically shut down after everything was copied to the new VCSA 6.5. Today, we will conduct a test migration (just for fun) […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Migrate Windows based vCenter Server 6.0 to vCenter 6.5

How to Migrate Windows Based vCenter to VCSA 6.5 [Lab]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 28, 2016

vCenter Server Migration Assistant - execute it on your Windows based vCenter

And another lab post today. Today we will migrate our Windows based vCenter server 6.0U2 to VCSA 6.5. VMware worked hard on this one so I’m wondering whether I’ll experience problems or not. It is my main lab vCenter server which historically runs on Windows, but in each major version (5.0, 5.5 and 6.0) I […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Migrate Windows Based vCenter to VCSA 6.5

How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation [LAB]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

This is lab time -:). Normally you don’t do that on your production deployment. This is a guide on How to install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation and see the different configuration options within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5.  Yes, As you know, we have VMware vSphere 6.5 in GA state (General Availability), […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

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