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Starwind innovates with Free FCoE

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2010

Fibre channel over Ethernet. StarWind announces a release of the first-ever FCoE software initiator for Windows that will be offered for free. It allows servers to connect to Fibre Channel storage over standard Ethernet network. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an encapsulation of Fibre Channel packets over Ethernet networks. Especially useful on 10Gigabit Ethernet […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind FcOE

Use NIC teaming feature to share load and get passive failover

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

NIC teaming with VMware vSphere 4 With VMware vSphere 4 you have the possibility to team your NICs and benefit redundancy and share the network load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among the members of the network. The configuration is easy via GUI even if its possible use CLI (command line interface) for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: nic teaming, nic teaming policy, nic teaming video

ESXi 4 does not support serial and parallel ports

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

There is no support for serial and parallel ports on ESXi 4 host. I was trying to connect a modem device which communicates via serial port on one of ESXi hosts at customer sites the other day. But every time when I wanted to add a serial port to my VM, which was an Windows […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, Parallel port ESXi 4, serial Port ESXi 4, VMA

VMware VMA – how to change default english keyboard

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2012

When you need to change the default keyboard language. VMware vMA is a Redhat entreprise Linux 5 prepackaged virtual appliance which helps you manage ESXi 4 installations. ESXi 4 is the hypervizor without the classic Service Console. VMware is trying to push more and more to this direction since the Sevice console is a potential […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4 Console, ESXi Console Managemnt, VMA, VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Static MAC address set in VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 8, 2012

How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same host, the MAC adress of the VM is changed. If you want to guarantee that the same […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: static MAC adress vmware, vSphere 4 static MAC adress

VMware Patch process step by step video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 12, 2010

VMware KB video showing patching of ESX Host. vSphere 4 Update Manager in action. If you never used VMware vSphere 4 update manager before, this video shows you how to get started and how to successfully apply a necessary security patches to your ESX host. The GUI interface seems to be difficult to understand, but […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to patch VMware vSphere 4, Patch manager VMware, vSphere Patch manager

Rename VMDKs to avoid Backup conflicts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

What if you end up with the same vmdk file name on different datastores? A simple case scenario that can happens: A single VM has several hard disk attached to it. The hard disk VMDK files are located on different datastores. When creating a new hard disk which location is on different datastore to a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to rename VMDK, rename VMDK

Spring discounts with promo codes at VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2017

Promo codes for Workstation 7 and Fusion 3, including Upgrades… After a recent announce of huge discount for vSphere Essentials, where you’re able get $500 off the price (50% OFF), today there are some more discount with promo codes announced. You can get 25% off the regular price for Workstation 7 and  for Fusion 3. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Fusion 3 coupon code, Fusion 3 promo, Workstation 7 coupon Code, Workstation 7 promo

What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 19, 2017

What is VMware VMA?

What is vSphere Mangement Assistant (VMA)? It’s basically a virtual machine which runs on a Linux distribution. This VM can be used as a VM where you’ll run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter server systems. One of the agents which are ofter run within VMA are agents for UPS systems. VMA has […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vSphere Management Assistant, vSphere VMA

Troubleshooting Fault Tolerance in vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

VMware Fault Tolerance questions. Great doc released through VMware KB I just discovered about explaining all about Fault Tolerance and also how to troubleshoot the error messages when you try to activate this feature. In this KB you’ll find how to troubleshoot, when to activate, when the option is available and when it’s grayed out… […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Fault Tolerance FAQ, VMware Fault Tolerance

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