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Free Clipboard manager called Remembr – Friday Freebie

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Today we’ll have a look at this is a very lightweight Freeware called Remembr which allows keeping more than one item in your clipboard – it’s Free Clipboard Manager. That’s the always problematic when you can only keep single item in the clipboard that next time you copy some text you actually overwrite (and loose) […]

Rackware for vCloud Air – DR scenarios for Virtual and Physical Workloads

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In my latest article on Rackware I have reported about their solution based on Rackware Management Module (RMM) which is used for DR scenarios for Virtual and Physical Workloads. The disaster recovery scenario uses RMM installed within vCloud Air which orchestrates the DR and syncing all the workloads you need to protect: Virtual and physical. You might […]

Virtual Router for Windows – Free for W8, W7 or W2008 R2

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This free software allows you to share your internet connection on your laptop. Nothing really exciting, right? But it can be useful when you are in a hotel where the Wifi connections are limited to single device. Most hotels use free wifi signal with behind a NoCat or other caption portals, so you can use […]

Free Veeam Endpoint Backup Released

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Veeam has finally released  Free Veeam Endpoint Backup software. It’s free and will always stays free. Veeam Endpoint Backup is destined to protect physical computers/laptops by creating image level backups (note: can also do file level backup, but is slower) where the 1st backup is Full and the next backups are incremental. You can restore the […]

Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – X10SRH-CLN4F – Part 2

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In the previous part I’ve detailed the specs of this board, talked a bit about the 2011-3 CPU architecture and possibilities, but also touched a bit on IPMI management. Since it’s something new in my homelab as previous builds were always done from consumer (desktop) boards I thought that it might be a good idea to […]

WinReducer for W8.x, W10 can customize Windows ISO

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If you know Nlite (now supports W8 and W10 preview too) you probably like customizing Windows ISOs. There has always been an alternative called WinReducer that I blogged about in the past. The good news is that this free software got an update recently and is able to support W7 up to W10 (preview). WinReducer for W8.x, […]

Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab

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I was playing a lot with Nested ESXi 6 in a lab recently. But it does not matter, we can do quite a lot with a 64 Gigs of RAM and bunch of SSDs… What’s new in this release is the fact that VM tools are installed by default so the nested ESXi behaves like […]

How to Tag SSD as Capacity Tier in VSAN 6

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This article will show few commands which are necessary when you want to tag flash device used in VSAN 6 All-Flash configuration as a capacity tier. For now it’s manual process via CLI but GUI utility shall be available soon too. As you know VMware VSAN 6.0 allows configuration of Spinning disks + SSD OR […]