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The enterprise journey to the vCloud – Building Cloud platform using vCloud director

By Paul McSharry | Last Updated: January 1, 2016

There are many interesting articles about building a Cloud platform using vCloud director, creating network pools, preparing hosts and ensuring your allocation settings are correct. All good stuff for vAdmins. Now consider the business application person. He has experience with the application from a previous role at another company. He knows it will revolutionise his […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vCloud Director, Vmware, VMware vCloud, VMware vCloud Director

New benchmarking tool for VDI performance troubleshooting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

Remote Session Virtual Indexer

Login consultants has released new version of benchmarking tool for VDI -Virtual Session Indexer 3.5 The Login ‘Virtual Session Indexer’ tool is a platform independent, ‘turn-key’ performance measurement solution. You’re able to test performance VDI sessions, by simulating a real workload of office workers, but not only. The solutions comes in two editions. Free and […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Citrix, VDI, VDI performance, Vmware

Easy way to change default location for your VMs in VMware Workstation

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

I’m running a VMware Workstation on Vista x64 bits with 2 partitions (c: – system and d: – DATA). Always when I wanted to create a new virtual machine on my VMware Workstation, I had to navigate through all the folders on my c: drive to finally create a folder on a D: drive where […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, Vmware, Workstation

How-to uninstall completely a VMware product if the uninstall process fails

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Sometimes it just happens. You want to uninstall for example a VMware workstation from your computer, and you have an error saying that the uninstaller is corrupted. Then you try to delete the Program files/vmware folder and you leave a bunch of files all over your system folder and registry. What to do? You have […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: Desktop Virtualization, How-to, Vmware, VMware Player, VMware Product uninstall

Collection of terms used in today’s virtualization language…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2009

I decided to put on a little collection of terms from the virtualization business. There is many technical terms used today in all over the place, and the newcomers are often lost. Who was not at the beginning? So I thought that if I put a post trying to regroup all those terms, it would […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Glossary, SAN, Vmware

Top 10 PowerShell scripts for Virtual Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

I want to share with you the information I found at virtual-strategy.com about Top 10 PowerShell scripts availables today. I think that it’s is a great resource, which should be bookmarked and kept safe and every ESX admin should have an online copy…. So in no ordered list: 1. Quick Migration Script from Mike diPetrillo. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: DRS, ESXi, Mike Dipetrillo, pool calculator, powershell scripts, Server Virtualization, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure, Virtualcenter, virtualization, Vmware, VMware Infrastructure

Top 5 reasons to virtualize with VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Everyday I hear people to speak more and more about virtualization. This technology is becoming more and more popular and more and more IT andministrators are just going for it and virtualize their servers. So why should you virtualize your your servers? Why should you use VMware instead of Microsoft or Xen… Most of these […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi, Server Virtualization, Virtual Servers, Vmware

How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs – part 2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 8, 2017

This is the part 2 of How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VMs. With this how-to, I will show you how-to convert the Image file created using BESR for imaging of your VM into VHD or VMDK. In this procedure, you’ll see the conversion into the VHD file but you can do exactly the […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: BESR, V2P, Vmware

How-to use Symantec BESR to V2V your VM – Part 1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 8, 2017

V2V Virtual to physical with Symantec. In this article, I’m gonna show you that is possible to use Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery to successfully convert your VMs either into VMware (VMDK) or into Virtual PC (VHD) format. The advantage of using BESR is that you can also use the image of your VM to do […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Vmware

Installation ESX Server inside of VMWare Workstation 6.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

UPDATE: Just check my post showing the installation of ESXi 5 insisde of VMware Workstation. I did one of my first videos. In this video you’ll see that it is possible to install and manage ESX Server even without appropriate hardware. The installation of ESX was possible on a laptop from Fujitsu-Siemes with 4GB of RAM […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: Server Virtualization, Vmware

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