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Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 20, 2017

Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

This is a quick tip to Increase Startup Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM. We will show you that it can be done different ways as we have multiple tools from VMware for managing their virtual infrastructure. A very easy tip everyone knows already, for this Friday. Check our Tips or How-to categories for other […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips Tagged With: Increase Boot Delay to Edit the BIOS of a VM

VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Disabling Unnecessary Virtual Hardware Devices

This post will try to outline some performance optimization tips for virtual hardware within VMware infrastructure. Performance is one of the topics which is crucial. How far can you go to optimize each and every VM within your infrastructure? There are few guidelines from VMware, we’ll focus on optimization of Virtual machine hardware, the VM’s […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Virtual Hardware Performance Optimization Tips

Migration Of Windows 7 To Windows 10 Using VMware Mirage?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Migration to Windows 10

Today’s post is a post detailing the process of migration of Windows 7 to Windows 10 (In-place migrate). VMware Mirage can handle migrations between different Windows OS in two ways. Either you can do an in-place migrate where the user keeps the same hardware, or Mirage will migrate user to W10 and the user will […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To Tagged With: Migrate Windows 7 To Windows 10 Using VMware Mirage, migration of Windows 7 to Windows 10

Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector

VMware Mirage system has built-in deduplication and compression. In a WAN environment which has remote sites usually with limited bandwidth connection to the main site, it is usefull to enable a feature called Branch Reflector and in this post we will detail Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector. Using Mirage branch reflectors promotes efficient […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: Why and How Enable VMware Mirage Branch Reflector

How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer

VMware Mirage Guide page is getting more and more finished. Today, we’ll add another post which will teach us How to Apply a VMware Mirage App Layer? You can create several App layers and those App layers can be applied to an endpoint or a group of endpoints (collection). We can imagine several scenarios, such as […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: VMware Mirage App Layer

How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Capture a Base Layer

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: How to Capture a VMware Mirage Base Layer

How to Create a Reference CVD for Base Layer Capture in VMware Mirage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage - Create a reference CVD

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 […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, How To Tagged With: VMware Mirage Reference CVD

How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

VMware Mirage Centralize endpoint

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To Tagged With: How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage, VMware Mirage

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 3, 2017

vSphere administrator password

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). […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: VCSA 6.5 Password Expires

How To Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 2, 2017

PowerCLI window copy

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 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches

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