ESX Virtualization

View 5.2 Best Practices PDF – Optimizing W7 and W8 guests plus more

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:40:09 +0000

There is a new paper released by VMware, for VMware View 5.2, called View 5.2 Best Practices, or I should rather say Horizon View 5.2. The latest release from VMware has introduced many new features like sVGA or sparse efficient disks. Feature about which you could already read in my detailed post here - VMware Horizon Workspace – [...]

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Multi Hypervisor Free Monitoring Tool from VMturbo – Virtual Health Monitor

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:34:15 +0000

VMturbo continues the development and releasing Free multi hypervisor monitoring tool – Virtual Health Monitor. This tool is successor to a tool previously called Community edition, and allows the the monitoring of virtual infrastructures spanning multiple datacenters with multiple hypervisors. The product uses the “same analytics engine” as in the full product – VMturbo Operations Manager. Virtual Health Monitor [...]

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NTFS Permissions Reporter to quickly check directory permissions on file servers

Vladan SEGET — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:30:22 +0000

Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows [...]

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VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:26:15 +0000

The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the [...]

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ESXi maintenance mode via the CLI how-to and some more commands

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:00:47 +0000

A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When [...]

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WordPress Performance Test – Track your plugins first!

Vladan SEGET — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:31:13 +0000

There is a very useful plugin when it comes to track WordPress plugins performance and resource consumption. A P3 Performance Profiler plugin allows you to automatically test the WordPress site and show you the plugin that uses the most of the resources. Usually after installing WordPress, the clean installation needs to be enhanced to fit your needs. The plugins [...]

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VMware View Pool Manager – Free Tool

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:52:58 +0000

In case you missed this one, there is new free tool for administrators doing a lot of work with VMware View. The tool is called VMware View Pool manager and it is a free tool (Fling) which is available at the VMware Labs website. The tool was created by Andre Leibovici, and can be used for [...]

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VMware SSO Install – Single Sign On Server Installation Options

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:47:48 +0000

VMware SSO install, when done wrong or when architected the wrong way, can put your infrastructure into a fragile state where SSO can became the single point of failure (SPOF). Before introduction of SSO in vSphere 5.1, there was a vCenter considerations when it comes to resiliency and protection. With the introduction SSO it’s like an additional [...]

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Veeam Backup and Replication v7 – Virtual Labs for Replicas

Vladan SEGET — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:30:29 +0000

Virtual Labs for replicas is another new feature that has been announced by Veeam. Virtual labs which brought the revolutionary feature that has been around since version 5 of Veeam Backup and replication, has brought this possibility to mount and run VM directly from backup location. Veeam Backup and Replication v7 enhances this function for [...]

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Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012 – ODBC and vCenter components install

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:58:11 +0000

In the first part we successfully installed SQL Server, and created vCenter, VMware update manager and SSO databases. In this part we will create the DSNs and Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012, together with all the different components. This post is a part of multipost, where we do an Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012, with [...]

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