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Project Onyx, for non scripting people…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 5, 2009

Project ONYX is a very interesting initiative from The PowerCLI team. What is Onyx and how it can helps you to write scripts. I never write scripts. I’m not a programmer. The only think I can do is to adapt existing scripts a little.. that’s all. I’m sure that I’m not alone. Not everyone wants […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Carter Shanklin, PowerCLI team, Project Onyx, scripting VMware

New feature with VMware vSphere Update 1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 24, 2009

VMware vSphere Agent Pre-upgrade Check One of the visible thinks you can see when you first execute the installation of vCenter Server is Agent Pre-Upgrade check. What is it?  This feature just ensure that the update process will go well.  It check if all the hosts in your environment are having the necessary pre-requisites, so […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4 update, ESXi 4 update, vSphere update

VMware SRM 4 video explaining installation steps for Shared Recovery Site

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

With a recent release of VMware SRM 4, there has been also a new feature introduced. VMware SRM was released few weeks back. SRM 4.0 is fully compatible with VMware vSphere 4. VMWare Site Recovery helps you create and successfully test recovery plans for your datacenter. VMware SRM is used to protect the whole data […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Shared Recovery Site with SRM, SRM 4.0, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware SRM 4

Thick or thin, that is a question?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2013

New performance whitepaper from VROOM blog. If you ever doubted any performance issues due to using Thin provisioned disks, you should read this whitepaper. In fact there are just very little performance loss (if any) when using thin disks. The benefit of using thin disks over thick disks is quite big as you can save tons […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Thin Disk performance, Thin disk vSphere, Thin vs Thick, VMware vSphere Thin provisioning

P2V ramblings with OEM server installation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 27, 2013

Windows OEM license installed on physical Server can’t really be P2V. Or yes? It just came it as an evidence for me because it already happened to me in my production environment several times, but it’s not evident for everybody. So just a little remember. Especially when you are just started learning about virtualization and […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: P2V on OEM, VMware P2V

Windows 7 and VMware VI client issue fixed with official KB

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

When you want to run VI client on Windows 7 recently released or on Windows 2008 Server R2 The problem was known for some time now, and the bloggers community found a workaround quite quickly. VMware was a bit late to officially fix this trouble with this official KB article: Cannot launch vSphere Client after […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 4 VI client error, Windows 7 error VI client, Windows 7 VI client

Using storage vMotion or using an Extent to gain space on the LUN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

VMFS – Virtual Machine File Cluster with a possibility to dynamically expand a volume. I found this video on YouTube, where Satyam Vaghani – Senior VMware Engineer – explains which choice customers are having when they short on space on their LUN. Basically the VMFS file system has the possibility to make your datastore larger […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: LUN out of Space, Storage VMotion, using Extends, VMFS, VMware Storage vMotion

Thin provisioning how could you live without it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

If you just starting with VMware Virtualization and want to learn some new features comming with vSphere 4 just read on. Thin provisioning feature which comes with vSphere 4 is cool enough to talk about . Actually I’m even asking myself how come that I could live without it? Thin provisioning can save you a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Thin provisioning ESX 4, thin provisioning ESXi 4, Thin Provisioning vSphere

Using tasks, events and alarms in vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 13, 2011

Today I watched a video from the second DVD of the new Trainsignal’s vSphere 4 learning course. In this video David Davis explained to me what for are tasks, scheduled tasks, how to use them. Really cool stuff. I did not know that the configuration of SNNP inside vCenter was so easy…. Still inside of […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4 video, Training ESX 4, Training VMware, VCP training, Video learning Trainsignal vSphere 4, vSphere 4

“Error unable to access a file since it is locked” – how did I do to save my day

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 27, 2009

I had this error in my lab when I was trying to power on a virtual machine with Exchange 2007 installed in it. It’s a testing VM. Since It’s testing VM I did not keep any backup for this VM. I might should….. -:( But then… what to do? I had two options: 01. Google […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Data Recovery VM, unable to access a file since it is locked, V2V, Vmdk, VmWare Converter

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