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VMware has put online new Online book about VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 14, 2009

This book is published in the same manner that we use to find informations from Microsoft Technet. It means that you have a webpage with two frames. On the left side there are menus which are expandable and on the right side you are able to see the individual chapters. This information is intended for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: how-to vSphere install, VMware vSphere 4, VMware vSphere Online Book, vSphere Online ressources

Mastering vSphere 4 by Scott Lowe in pre-order on Amazon

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 11, 2009

In case you don’t know (I know that you do), there is a new book from Scott Lowe – Mastering vSphere 4. Scott is very active author on his blog and his blog is one of them that I visit on daily basics, because I’m subscribed to his RSS Feed. His new book offers a […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere 4 Book

Another Free product – Veeam Business View

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Veeam Business view is another free product from VEEAM. Everybody knows Veeam Fast SCP, Veeam Monitor. You can check  other Top 10 Freeware tools to manage Virtual Infrastructur that I’m using. VEEAM Business View is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server 2.x and 4.0. As for now the product is not yet integrated Veeam Monitor and Veeam Backup & Replication. It’s just a question of days […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Freeware for ESX, Freeware for vSphere, Manage vSphere, VEEAM Business View, Veeam Freeware

How to remove VMware Tools manually if uninstall or upgrade finish with error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 2, 2015

In today’s post I’ll show How to remove VMware Tools manually. I was migrating some VMs to newly deployed ESXi host, and I was also upgrading to the latest Virtual Hardware some guest Os. After I wanted to update VMware tools in those VMs, but I run into a problem. Then I had a trouble […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to uninstall VMware Tools, VMware tools, VMware Tools uninstall error

Improvements in vSphere with a new paravirtualized adapter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

New paravirtualized SCSI adapter is more optimized SCSI adapter than the LSI virtual Adapter. This adapter and many more other enhancements are part of new virtual machine hardware version 7 in vSphere 4. VMware’s new paravirtualized SCSI adapter (pvSCSI) offers 12% improvement in throughput at 18% less CPU cost compared to LSI virtual adapter. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: paravirtualized SCSI Adapter, pvSCSI, VMware pvSCSI

Free tools from PHD virtual

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

In one of my last articles I wrote about PHD Virtual’s esXpress there were some great free tools I found about on the PHD Virtual’s website. Sho why not tho share this with you guys.. Virtual SAN 1.0.0 – It’s a virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server. It uses the local disks which […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX management, Free tools ESX, Freeware ESX management tools

RVTools – 2.5.5 version is out.

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 24, 2012

RVTools So what’s new? I blogged already several times about this small little freeware tool which is VERY HANDY and that helps you gather a lot of informations from your virtual infrastructure’s environement.So what Rob de Veij is saying about his upgrade? Changed health check properties are not set at start of the program. The […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: new version RV Tools, RVTools

How to activate root SSH access in ESX 4.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 30, 2010

In ESX 4.0 SSH is blocked by default for the root user so you need to activate the root login on the console of the ESX server. Note that instead of activating ssh for the root, which is not really recommended you can connect to your ESX server with a normal account (which you added […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESX 4.0 SSh, root access ESX 4, root ESX 4, SSH ESX 4, vSphere SSH

esXpress 3.5 does file level restore without VCB

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 28, 2023

Another company which proposes backup/recovery solutions I was not aware of is PHD Virtual. Their backup/recovery solution is called esXpress 3.5 and provides high availability data protection for your virtual machines. At the moment the product is not compatible vSphere 4, but it’s questions of days (weeks) to became one of the products to give […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Backup VMware Infrastructure, esXpress 3.5, File level restore VM, Virtual Infrastructure Restore

ESX 4 and VM’s with hardware version 7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 28, 2019

Now that we are in the vSphere, the VM’s hardware version is version 7. But what that is mean? There is quite a few enhancements over the previous release of VMware hypervisor. As you can see, the new ESX 4 supports USB. That’s a good idea. Since a long time ago, present in a VMware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: virtual machine hardware version 7, vSphere 4, vSphere VM hardware

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