During our previous post we have created a Reference CVD with all the main corporate software installed, then we launched the Create a Reference CVD assistant. In this post we will teach you How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer. The reference machine was centralized to a reference CVD (centralized virtual desktop) on the VMware Mirage […]
How to Create a Reference CVD for Base Layer Capture in VMware Mirage
Today’s post will detail the creation of a reference Centralized Virtual Desktop (CVD) for base layer capture. This rather complicated saying means that we will save one of our CVDs as a reference CVD. You might ask what is CVD? It is basically our desktop/laptop which we want to protect and manage. CVD means “Centralized […]
How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage
We have set up our VMware Mirage lab in a series of posts recently. While we could do a simple “All-in-One” box installation, we decided to deploy (almost) full VMware Mirage stack with several management servers, separate Mirage server, and separate File server. You can follow the Mirage series on a dedicated blog page – VMware […]
VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?
If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]
How To Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches
VMware is releasing patches on regular basis, but those aren’t always available within the latest installation ISO file (at least not for “free” customers). The idea is to build a new VMware ESXi ISO which integrates the latest patches inside. The download of latest patches is free, but My VMware account is required. You can […]
How To Disable vSphere Web Client Inactivity Timeout
vSphere web client is the principal management tool for VMware infrastructure. It is a flash based solution which is currently the only one providing functionality for configuration all features of VMware vSphere. The new HTML 5 web client is in works, but for now, not all functions are available so this client can’t be used […]
How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy
The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]
What is STUN Server?
A while back we wrote post about WebRTC technology. Today, we’ll continue to remind some basics about WebRTC and learn few things about STUN. Web Real-Time Communication (RTC) is an open standard for embedding real-time multimedia communications directly to a web browser, via VP8 video codec, which is free. WebRTC uses a server called Web Conferencing […]
What is VMware vMotion?
What is VMware vMotion? It is THE feature, the function, which “hooked” thousands of millions IT guys on the plane for using VMware for their IT infrastructure. It is kind of a holy grail of virtualization where a running VM moves to another host without interruption of service (of with just a few pings lost). I still […]
How To Reset ESXi Root Password via Microsoft AD
When you’re in front of a host where the ESXi root password has been lost, how to reset an ESXi root password might be the first question you’re asking, right? A while back we have posted a way of doing it via VMware Host profiles. But not everyone has Enterprise Plus licensing which includes host […]
