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How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3 without changing a MAC address

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 10, 2019

You might end up in a situation where you have a VM which you want to change vNIC type, but you want to keep the current MAC address. Today’s post will teach us How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3 without changing a MAC address. This is an easy post which I’m sure everyone knows how to […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: How To Change E1000 into VMXNET3

What Are VMware Exam Vouchers?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

VMware VCP Exam voucher is kind of an “electronic” tickets needed to pass a VCP Exam. You can buy it in advance (or plan the buy) when the IT budgets are distributed or when you have a budget. One Voucher is valid for a duration of a minimum of 12 months and you can use […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What Are VMware Exam Vouchers

What is VMware Learning Zone?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 28, 2018

VMware Learning Zone

When preparing to pass a VCP (or VCA) certification exam and learn about new VMware products, all resources are good. Some of them are free, some of them are paid. Most of the time, paid resources are paid because they’ve been done with more resources and more money, but free resources are good too since they […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Learning Zone

How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 23, 2018

Before you start with the update, make sure to create a backup of your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Virtual Machine (VM). The backup is usually done by your backup software, and you can also configure a file-level backup introduced in vSphere 6.5 and further enhanced with a scheduler in vSphere 6.7. The protocols supported […]

| Filed Under: Backup, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) - [Guide]

What is VMware VM Customization Specification and How to use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 30, 2019

VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template.  Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: VMware VM Cloning, What is VMware VM Customization Specification

How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 18, 2018

StarWind Management Console

Creating Image file device in StarWind VSAN has some options that we’ll discuss today. In this post, you’ll learn How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN. Image device can be configured with or without cache. The cache is used to speed up the processing of disk requests using a faster intermediate storage […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – The Easy Way [Tip]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

I’m sure that everyone knows about this tip anyway, but…. You know, folks working with other hypervisors or the ones which do not manage VMware ESXi and vSphere on daily basis, do not know about it so they need help. In this post, we will learn How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client – […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips Tagged With: How To Disable Timeout on your ESXi Host Client

Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2018

If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: package manager for Windows

How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

First, I’d like to talk about PowerShell Core which is a module that can run on different platforms. Yes, It is a cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core, and this is an open source application. (Note that the “traditional”, built-in version of PowerShell is NOT open source and it is based on .NET […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell

Windows 10 For IT Administrators – Manage and Solve problems

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 2, 2018

Windows 10 IT

A fellow blogger Xavier Genestos from Spain is a very active book writer. We met each other during one VMworld conference in Barcelona. He is an IT admin and so he writes books for IT admins. This time he wrote a new book called Windows 10 For IT Administrators, covering Windows 10 in corporate environments. The […]

| Filed Under: Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: Windows 10 For IT Administrators

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