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How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3 without changing a MAC address

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 10, 2019

You might end up in a situation where you have a VM which you want to change vNIC type, but you want to keep the current MAC address. Today’s post will teach us How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3 without changing a MAC address. This is an easy post which I’m sure everyone knows how to […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3

How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2018

Before you start with the update, make sure to create a backup of your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Virtual Machine (VM). The backup is usually done by your backup software, and you can also configure a file-level backup introduced in vSphere 6.5 and further enhanced with a scheduler in vSphere 6.7. The protocols supported […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) - [Guide]

What is VMware VM Customization Specification and How to use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 30, 2019

VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template.  Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: VMware VM Cloning, What is VMware VM Customization Specification

How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – The Easy Way [Tip]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

I’m sure that everyone knows about this tip anyway, but…. You know, folks working with other hypervisors or the ones which do not manage VMware ESXi and vSphere on daily basis, do not know about it so they need help. In this post, we will learn How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – […]

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Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2018

If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: package manager for Windows

How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 26, 2018

Today we’ll have a look at How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform. If you’re a regular reader of our blog you already know that Ravello/Oracle Cloud Platform allows you not only to set up a cloud lab but also to run enterprise cloud applications as their recent upgrade allows you to run […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Ravello Training Platform

Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI – Two methods

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 11, 2018

After yesterday’s upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we’ll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade. The second method will use […]

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How To Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 10, 2018

Today a quick lab post which shows how simple is to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO image. There are several ways of upgrading standalone ESXi hosts, and via the ISO image it’s just so simple that I wanted to show this for the newcomers and people who just starting with VMware technology. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: Upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO

Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

This is a lab deployment of VMware vCSA 6.7. As you might notice, a few days ago we had a series of posts on VMware vSphere 6.7 which has just been announced and released the same day (a miracle?). Yeah, we downloaded the bits so it’s a lab time today to put things in works. vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vcsa 6.7 Installation

VMware Tools Offline VIB for ESXi Host – Bundle Download and Install

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 12, 2018

It’s been a few years now since VMware tools “split” and so it’s individual updates are available as a separate download. What we just found out is the fact that there is also a VIB package which you can download. As you know, VIB stands for VMware Installation Bundle. We have detailed How to install VIB […]

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