ESX Virtualization

VMware ESXi, vSphere, VMware Backup, Hyper-V... how-to, videos....

Nakivo Backup and Replication - #1 Backup solution for Virtual, physical, cloud, NAS and SaaS

Veeam’s secret weapon – SureBackup

By | Last Updated:

SureBackup – a revolution for backups of Virtual Infrastructure. I assisted at the bloggers meeting last night with Doug Hazelman from VEEAM Software. Doug had already did a pre-post on Veeam company’s blog veeammeup.com where he did not showed any new information, but only analyst’s reactions. The announcement has been done officially today on Veeam’s […]

My first tests of Kingston SSD drive

By | Last Updated:

Taking Kingston for a spin… In my first test for the SSD drive I bought recently I wanted to do a compare to SATA drives. In my test I’m using VMware Workstation 7 and a VM placed on the SSD drive at first. Then I’ll move this VM to a SATA drive and see what’s […]

Testing Eric Sloof’s vmClient

By | Last Updated:

New lightweight tool created by Eric Sloof. Eric Sloof’s blog was one of the first I started to follow in my early days when I was just starting to learn about  Virtual Infrastructure. Before that I was more into physical hardware, played a lot with VMware Workstation and Virtual PC to learn stuff. But times […]

Technical support escalation explained

By | Last Updated:

What is technical support escalation? With VMware you have a support for your desktop or server virtualization products. But after submitting a support request, you can also request an escalation. What’ts this? Escalation can be Service Based or product based. Service based can be asked for in a case for example that a when: impact […]

How to register License key for a desktop products

By | Last Updated:

This kb article I found explains the basics. What do you need to do for registering license for a desktop product bought at VMware. If you don’t you might not be able to come back and get updates for your products. 1. Navigate to the VMware Account Management page by going to www.vmware.com/account. 2. Log […]

Adding second service console via CLI

By | Last Updated:

Service Console commands. In the last series I explained how to change the IP address of the Service console (SC), which is an interface called vswif . You can see all the configured vswif interfaces with this command: esxcfg-vswif -l Normaly the first SC is vswif0. Before adding second SC we will first create a […]

My new SSD has arrived at Reunion Island

By | Last Updated:

As my readers already knows I work and live at Reunion Island (FR). A French overseas department which I ignored that it exists until about a 5 ears ago, where this magnificent island was located and why it’s part of France and Europe. So few weeks ago I make the move and purchased some parts […]

Video from VMware KB about creating alarm for a VMs running with snapshots

By | Last Updated:

Today I’ll show you another video from VMware KB Website. You know that VMs in your production Virtual environment should not run on snapshots all the time. The snapshot feature is there so you can chesk some patches before you say… Ok those are fine.. no troubles for my application etc… and then you should […]

Xangati for VMware ESX

By | Last Updated:

Two new Xangati’s products has just being released for VMware ESX. Those 2 new products are virtual appliances which you can install in your vCenter environment. Xangati provides a video-like visibility into all communications across both the virtual and physical worlds. It can monitor and manage both of them. It’s multi-platform so it works well […]