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How-to Create a Free VMware Branded Linux Virtual Appliance with Suse Studio

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

Suse Studio enables you to create a Free VMware Branded Linux Virtual Appliance. You’re able to choose from different versions, desktop or server types, add different packages etc. One thing that is cool that you can create your own virtual appliance with VMware branded login screens etc, free of charge. The Virtual Appliance which will […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to Create a VMware Branded Virtual Appliance

What is VMware .vSphere-HA folder for?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

If you’re running VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) cluster, you have certainly noticed a folder named “.vSphere-HA” on several of your shared datastores. What is VMware .vSphere-HA folder for? This folder has something to do with HA, you think, but what exactly is stored there? You certainly do not want to delete it, do you? […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware .vSphere-HA

VMware datastore hearbeating – How this functionality works?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 21, 2013

VMware Datastore Hearbeating

When configuring VMware High Availability (HA) cluster, you have the possibility to check as a secondary communication channel  a datastore (or several ones), during the configuration wizard. VMware Datastore Hearbeating provides an additional option for determining if host is in failed state or not. Before vSphere 5.0 era, in vSphere 4.1, if host had a hardware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Datastore Hearbeating

Free video – Configuring Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V 2012

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 13, 2013

Windows Server Hyper-V 2012

A free video from new Training from Trainsignal, which shows you what is dynamic memory in Hyper-V 2012, and how to configure this feature. David Davis is an instructor and he just created new training for recently released Microsoft’s Hyper-V 2012. This new training called Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V New Features Training – and will […]

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Upgrading vCenter Server? Use the free VMware Tool called vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2013

If you’re planning, or upgrading vCenter server, you might want to know that there is a free tool provided by VMware, which enables you to check the DB before running the installer. The VMware vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker not only detects problems, but also miss-configuration and can avoid performance problems after the upgrade. The tool produces […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker

How to find objects in vSphere Web client – the fastest way

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 10, 2013

The New vSphere Web client might not be the way that many admins use to do things in vSphere. In fact it’s been very very long time we have been all working through the vSphere Windows client, so the change to the vSphere Web client aren’t obvious. And so like many others I keep doing […]

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| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to find objects in vSphere Web client

Second Revolution of Flash storage – NGFF SATA

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Everybody knows SATA interface, right. SATA II (the older one) and the SATA III, the newer one. In the portable computer market there is also mSATA format of SSD drives available. In my laptop that I’m currently using, there is one mSATA with capacity of 128Gb. The mSATA format is small, but in a near […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: NGFF SATA

How-to install vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) and possibly save on Microsoft’s licensing

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware vCenter Server is also available as vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It is a linux appliance – running on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES). It does not provide all the possibilities as if vCenter installed on Microsoft Windows Server system (lacks support for plugins, ex. Update Manager Plugin), but in smaller environments (the vCSA […]

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| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware How-to install vCenter Server Appliance

How-to save resource pool tree before disabling DRS to be able to restore the hierarchy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 5, 2013

In vSphere 5.1 is possible to retain configuration of the cluster’s resource tree. In previous releases, like the vSphere 5.0 this feature wasn’t available. The feature is available through the new vSphere Web client only. Web client which has been enhanced, improved, and brought wider functions, than the classic Windows vSphere client. Limitations: You can […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: save resource pool

How-to restrict VMs in VMware Workstation 9

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 31, 2013

VMware Workstation 9 has the possibility to restrict VMs. But How-to restrict VMs in VMware Workstation 9, and for which use cases? The first thing that I have in mind is learning. You might want to restrict a modification for VM which is preconfigured with specific hardware, and distribute this VM to the students. optionally, there is […]

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