Install Latest Linux Ubuntu with VMware Player. The easiest way of testing new linux distribution is by using the free VMware Player software. Get your for free at VMware’s website here. You don’t have to mess out with your own system by having to setup a multiboot environment, where Windows and linux share the same […]
Windows 2008 R2 template the guest operating system customization does not complete
Can’t deploy W2008R2 system from template which hasn’t been activated. Sure, it’s quite logical. But I would like to go a bit deeper into the mechanism, to understand on what is happening. In fact, you basically start to prepare your VM (future template) , and you don’t activate it. When you don’t activate the VM, […]
How-to create bootable ESXi 5 USB stick by using Vmware Player
How-to create bootable ESXi 5 USB stick by using Vmware Player. There is quite a few ways of create a bootable memory stick with ESXi 5 installed. One of the easiest one is to use Free VMware Player 4 to do the job. Note that VMware Workstation users can do the same… It’s very convenient way to […]
How-to delete the hidden recovery partition on Samsung 9 Series laptop
How to delete recovery partition on Samsung 9 series laptop. The Samsung 9 series laptop has got a hidden partition (23Gigs in size) which is used by Samsung Recovery Software. This recovery partition is really used only when you need to get your laptop back to to state when you bought it. Since it’s quite […]
How-to configure VMware View Persona Management
Configuring the VMware View Persona Management. The VMware View Persona management enables you to manage user’s profiles in you organization by using your existing Microsoft domain and infrastructure. RTO Software acquired by VMware has developed this solution and so it’s been successfully integrated in the Vmware View 5 (not the 4.6 release). In a very nice and effective manner of dealing with […]
VMware HCL for ESXi
How to be sure that my hardware is compatible to run the latest VMware ESXi? When you looking for entreprise class hardware compatible with latest version of VMware vSphere – ESXi, you will certainly be looking for the Vmware HCL for ESXi page. Right? I’ll show you how to get there, but also how to use the […]
How I manage WordPress blog on daily basis
WordPress management – daily job. My regular readers know that I put a lot of attention on being updated and post news and articles on daily basis. This is quite time consuming task, and I would say… It’s a full time job ! Daily updates means a lots of research, lots of study, lots of […]
How to Setup Nested vSphere Lab on a PC by Using VMware Workstation
Free E-book: How to setup nested VMware vSphere lab on a PC or laptop? Ever wanted to test the latest vSphere Suite without having enough hardware? Features like vMotion, Fault Tolerance, DRS (distributed ressource scheduler) or HA (High Availability) can be tested in nested environment by using VMware Workstation. Note that the latest vSphere 6 […]
How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make the change persistent after reboot
How-to change default SSH port on ESXi 5 and make it persistent after reboots. If you want to keep SSH to your ESXi hosts, but want to change the default SSH port (22) to non default port, there is a way to do it. For example you don’t wan to have SSH on 22 but […]
How to remove orphaned vCenter Plugin
How-to remove unwanted plugin from vCenter. If you got stuck with a plugin installed in vCenter and can’t uninstall, there is a quick tutorial on how to do this. Sometimes you got stuck when testing beta products or RC versions, and your vCenter shows those broken plugins. In this post you’ll learn How to remove […]