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Nice add on for Putty – PuTTy Connection Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 20, 2017

What is VMware VMA?

Everybody knows PuTTy. There is PuTTy classic and PuTTy as a Portable application. I mentioned PuTTy in my post Top 10 Free tools to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. What I did not know is that there is a cool little plugin (add-on) for PuTTy which enables having tabbed multiple instances of PuTTy. The software is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Add on Putty, Putty Connection Manager

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

What is Enhanced vMotion compatibility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

vMotion everybody knows. Right? If not your are living under the rock….. -:) Just kidding. Using vMotion you can move the VMs needed to another host (another physical server) in your cluster. For what? Like this you can stop your physical server for maintenance, cleaning, vacuum cleaning…..of course. Even the serves needs some vacuum cleaning…. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: enhanced vMotion, EVC, VMotion, VMWare ESX, vSphere 4

VESI – sponsored initiative of Vizioncore might be a great way for us to adopt Powershell

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Are you a programmer? I’m not. That’s why I’m interrested in VESI. What is VESI ? The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative. Who is behind? It’s virtualization expert and author Scott Herold from VMguru.com.  The goal of The VESI community is to further enhance the administrative experience of virtual infrastructures with […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Powershell, VESI, Virtualization EcoShell, Vizioncore VESI

VMware Converter 4.0.1 and Thin provisionning

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2009

VMware Converter 4.0.1 is Free Tool now fully compatible with vSphere 4. One of the great features is Thin Provisionning. What is this? The name is a bit confusing, but in real it’s really great, because it saves you tonnes of diskspace. Oh yes!! When you converting your physical server into virtual, you can chose […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: thin provisionning, VMware Converter 4.1, VMware vSphere 4.0

How-to connect ESXi, vSphere to Openfiler iSCSI NAS

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 1, 2015

How-to connect ESX Server to Openfiler iSCSI NAS. Now that we are in the ESXi era we can test it in a lab environment with a iSCSI NAS freeware solution Openfiler. Few months ago I wrote an article about how to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESXi. That blogpost was a step-by-step procedure […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: connection ESX Openfiler, Connection vSphere Openfiler, vSphere iSCSI Openfiler

Find out if Intel-VT or AMD-V enabled in the BIOS without rebooting

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

How-to findout without reboot if the Intel VT or AMD-V are enabled in the BIOS. When you working with VMotion, Enhanced VMotion Capability (EVC), or 64bit virtual machine performance, you must make sure if Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) are enabled in the BIOS. This article provides a method to determine if […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: AMD-V, Intel VT

Starwind V2V Converter – easily convert your VMs from VHD to VMDK

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2009

StarWind V2V Converter helps you to convert VHD to VMDK and vice versa. So if You are Hyper-V or Virtual PC user you can convert your virtual hard disks to VMware VMDK format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image, but creates […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind, Starwind V2V converter, V2V, V2V Converter

How-to install ESXi 4.0 on USB memory Key

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Update: You should really check the latest post on How to create bootable VMware ESXi 5 U1 by using VMware Player for Free – It’s the fastest and easiest method to create bootable USB memory stick with the latest Free VMware ESXi 5 U1 hypervisor. Written in the past (some time ago…) , I published […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 4 Memory Stick, ESXi 4.0 USB, ESXi 4.0 vSphere USB, ESXi USB Stick

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