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Starwind iSCSI SAN – configuration RAID 1 Mirror and connection to ESX 4

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 12, 2019

Configuration RAID 1 Mirror and connection to VMware ESX 4. I wanted to test Starwind Entreprise Server – powerful iSCSI SAN software installing on your existing W2000/2003 Servers, which provides you with the possibility to create RAID1 Mirror. So whether you want to test this software this guide might help with the setup. You might also […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Starwind, Starwind iSCSI SAN

Second Shot to became VCP 4 or when upgrading from VCP 3

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 22, 2009

Good news for people looking to earn their VCP 4 certification exam. If you planning to pass VCP 4 (like myself… -:) , then you will be happy and more confident with the news like this one. It applies to a people wanting to pass VCP 4 and also to people wanting to upgrade from […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Certification VMware, VCP 4, VMware Certified Professional VCP4

ITQ vLan and portGroup manager FREE utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

There is one more tool I want to talk about and which is cool. The author is Flores Eken from ITQ Consultancy in the Netherlands is an enthusiast VMware SDK programmer. He wrote this application in C# based on the new ESX3.x /VC2.x SDK, but it works in ESX 4 I tested it. This tool […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free tool Virtual Infrastructure, Management vLAN, Management VMware Port groups

How to clone a Virtual machine in ESX Server video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2017

With Trainsignal’s Videos everything looks easy. In case you don’t know Trainsignal and their Great VMware vSphere Video Learning courses, I invite you to follow this link and see some solid made videos from David Davis. Watch some more free videos here: Running vSphere inside a VMware Workstation Fault tolerance – an ultimate protection for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Video learning Trainsignal

Some cool free tools from run-virtual.com

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

In case you did not discovered yet until today, there are some cool tools on run-virtual.com. Richard Garsthagen does great job providing all those tools from his blog. So here are thee tools. I did not test all of them, there are quite a few…Only one of them did not work for me. I do […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Tools, Monitoring Tools Virtual Infrastructure, VMware Free tools

VMware ESXi was created by a French guy !!!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

The origin of the project was born by a French Guy Olivier Crémel I was quite surprised when I found the info on one of the blogs I’m subscribed via RSS. If you do not know what is RSS and how smart is to use it just follow this link…. You might consider to subscribe […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4, ESXi was born, VMware ESXi 4, vSphere 4

Best practices for Installing ESX 4 with custom partitionning scheme

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 24, 2009

What’s the best practices to patition your ESX server installation? When you go and install ESX 4, its better to take some time and go for the custom partitioning scheme. Because when you just go with the default or you choose to partition the bad way… you might need to move your partitions afterwards or […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Best practices Service console partitions, Good practices ESX 4 partitions, Partitions ESX 4, Service console ESX 4 partitions

Virtualizing Microsoft Active Directory

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Things to remember and keep in a safe place when you go and run Active Directory in a VMs: In my experience I run a virtual infrastructure since several years. On my laptop in VMware Workstation or Virtual PC. In my homelab where I run ESXi4. But if you’re new to virtualization or you are […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Active Directory on VMware, Microsoft Active Directory VMware, Virtualize AD, VMware With Active Directory

Optimize your VMs by uninstalling physical hardware after P2V

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

After your P2V one of those steps to do at first is the Installation of VMware Tools. Also, not only you should get rid of all the physical hardware in Device manager that’s not used any more but also those software packages which had been used on a physical server to manage the hardware (like […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Optimization P2V, Optimize P2V, VMware P2V

VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not supported with current release… You can install it as a second disk, for your […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to install pvSCSI Linux, pvSCSI, vSphere pvSCSI

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