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Starwind with ISCSI SAN Software can do High Availability for you…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

High availability feature tested from Starwind  ISCSI SAN Software. This is a follow up post for setup High Availability feature with Starwindsoftware’s ISCSI SAN. In the first part I simply showed what’s my lab configuratio will look like and what I will need to test the HA feature. I basically took 2 VMs running 2003 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind HA, Starwind SAN software, Starwind Software, StarwindSoftware High Availability

Are you looking for vSphere Pro Training?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Are you looking for vSphere Training? David Davis – which is the author of the First (and the best 😎 ) vSphere 4 training course. David is (vExpert, CCIE #9369, CWNA, MCSE, CISSP, Linux+, VCP). David will teach you what’s good for VMware View and  ThinApp. Hal Rottenberg is the second person which will introduce […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Coupon Code VMware, VMware vSphere 4 Coupon Code, vSphere 4 promo, vSphere 4 training Coupon Code

You know how to collect diag information when your ESXi does PSOD?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 5, 2010

Find out more in logs concerning PSOD. Way back I explained in my post that exists several ways to collect logs from vCenter Server and send those crucial informations to vmware support to check out. This time I saw a VMware KB article explaining how to collect logs from a ESXi server doing PSOD (purple […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs ESXi, how to collect logs ESXi 4, logs ESXi 4

Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Do I choose the PVSCSI or LSI Logic virtual adapter on ESX 4.0 for non-IO intensive workloads? I thought that the question about using or not VMware Paravirtual adapter was solved with the vSphere 4 Update 1 and the announce that VMware has officialy support PVSCSI on boot disks. For me it was clear that I […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: pvSCSI, using PVSCSI, vmware paravirtual, vSphere update 1 pvscsi

NTLDR missing – silly but can happend

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 26, 2012

This might happen if you have a floppy attached to your VM. Sometimes, when you forget to un-attach a floppy drive from a VM, you might experience this error message. Windows does not boot You see the error: NTLDR is missing Well, to get your VM work again, just make sure that the SCSI driver […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ntldr missing, vmware error ntldr missing

How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files and disable shrinking

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 24, 2010

Sometimes you just want to disable shrinking of VMdk for certain VMs. How do you do that? Before you get started you should know that, if this is done repeatedly, the virtual disk can become unavailable, effectively causing a denial of service. so In most datacenter environments, disk shrinking – no. So you can disable this […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: disable shrink vmdk, shrink virtual disk, shrink vmdk, vSphere shrink disk

ESXi – the past, the present and the future

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

The ESXi – COS less future of tomorrow? ESXi 4 is now The Hypervizor being the most promoted by VMware. The version of ESX Server without the Linux Red Hat service console. Sure, this is an obvious advantage of such a hypervizor. Reduced surface attack, reduced patching, cooling and reduced energy needed to run (in it’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, ESXi 4 embeded, VMWare ESXi, VMware ESXi 4

VMware Fusion 3 on MAC running Flip3D

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 8, 2013

VMware Fusion 3 video. VMware Fusion 3 for Mac has better 3D support, which enables Aero under Windows Vista and Windows 7. In this little video I found on YouTube. Also you’ll see unity mode. What is it? Unity mode just hides the VMware Fusion 3 principal window and makes your windows applications appear as […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion 3, Windows on MAC

How to collect log information from vCenter Server 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

How to collect logs from vCenter Server? Sometimes when you’re in trouble, you need to go and generate the diagnostic information for VMware vCenter Server 4.0. I was wondering where and how, just until when I stumbled on this KB article on VMware KB website. The article explains that to generate the vCenter 4 logs, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: collecting logs informations vCenter Server, logging info vmware, logs vmware, vcenter collect logs, VMware collect logs

How to know where is my VM if vCenter is down?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

This info comes from my “French connection”  blogger Raphael SCHITZ at Hypervisor.fr. Since he still publishes his posts in French and because a vast majority of virtualization folks speaks NO French, I decided to re-blog this info, which I founded useful for anybody dealing with vCenter and VMware ESX . In case the vCenter goes […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, export vCenter info, vCenter 4, VMware ESX 4

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