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VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.0]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware Certification Requirements - What's your path?

VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.0]. After the deadline which was fixed by VMware for 29th of February, administrators with VCP 4 willing to became VCP 5 (VMware Certified Professional) on vSphere 5, must pass VMware Official Training Course, again. But you do have a choice: Or you attend the VMware vSphere: Install, configure, manage [V5.0] course. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP 5, VCP 510, VMware vSphere: What's New [V5.0]

vCloud Director Training by TrainSignal has been released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

vCloud Director Training

This training from Trainsignal will teach you how to get started with vCloud Director. The training is 5 hours long and the instructor is David Davis. David has done many great VMware Trainings, and I have covered many of them on my blog. See my blog page on different training possibilities (also Official VMware Trainings) […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Trainsignal vCloud Director Training, vCD, vCloud director Training, vCloud Director VMware

How to update vSphere 5 to vSphere 5 U1 using the vSphere update manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2013

Step by step  of the upgrade process for ESXi 5 to ESXi 5 U1 using vSphere update manager. Few days back I reported on that VMware has released an Update 1 of vSphere 5. This release is mainly fixing some issues found in the vSphere 5, but also brings some additional features and renforces the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to patch vSphere 5, How to update vSphere 5 to vSphere 5 U1 using update manager, Upgrade to vSphere 5 U1, vSphere 5 U1

New strategic partnership for Starwind and new product offers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 10, 2017

Starwind vSphere Web Client Plugin

Starwind partners with Systematica and also with ETC BV. Strategic partnership for easier distribution of Starwind iSCSI SAN solutions and VM backup technologies in Italy and Netherlands. You can read both press releases below. We’ll be also talking about some interesting news from Starwind and new product offers. Starwind is a very dynamic company and now ships also […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind Software

VMware vSphere 5 Update 1 has been released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

VMware Updated vSphere 5 to vSphere Update 1. It’s mostly maintenance release. Not only vSphere 5 has been updated to U1, but also other VMware products like vShield Edge 5.0.1, vCloud Director 1.5.1 , SRM 5.0.1, vCenter Heartbeat 6.4u1, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5 and VMware View 5.0.1. In fact the whole cloud operating software […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5.0.1, VMware vSphere 5 Update 1, vSphere 5.0.1

Cannot register virtual machine template

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2012

Cannot register virtual machine template

A general system occured: the system returned an error. communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted. You might see this message when registering Virtual machine template and your vCenter reports an error like that. A quick search pointed me to the solution. In fact the VM template has been created originally and configured […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Cannot register a virtual machine template, communication with the virtual machine might have been interrupted

Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008R2 VM when vCenter Installed

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008R2 VM when vCenter Installed

Cannot take quiesced snapshot of 2008 R2 Virtual Machine with ADAM installed. If you’re running VMware vCenter as a VM, you might experience the following problem when backing up. The VM cannot be backed up with any backup software, because the backup software can’t take a quiesced snapshot of the VM. In VDR you’ll be facing […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ADAM, Cloning Impossible, Quiesced snapshot 2008 R2

Playing with Embotics V-Commander live demo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Embotics V-Commander Online Demo

I tried Embotic’s V-Commander Live Demo Online. As you might already noticed, my sidebar on the right hand side “grew” a bit and so there is another partner supporting ESX Virtualization website. The name of the partner is Embotics. Canadian company who is not so new in the virtualization business, but who is creating very […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Embotics V-Commander, V-Commander Demo

3rd as an Independent Virtualization Blog – Awards 2012

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

vChat - Virtualization Blog Awards 2012

The Virtualization Blog Awards 2012. This year the Virtualization blog competition ended quite a few days back, but with over 1200 votes, Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land.com had to spend many hours to actually count all that votes to be able to announce the results. And as a result ESX Virtualization ended up in the […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Top 25 virtualization blogs

ESXi 6.x Free – what’s the limitations?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Free Hypervizor

What’re the limitations of the  ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to clear this out. Which use cases […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5 Free, ESXi 5 Free - what's the limitations?, limitations ESXi 5 free

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