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TCPView and Curports – Tools to track open ports and connections

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

TCPView is a free Microsoft utility to show detailed listings of your network connections

When you are having doubt about some program installed on your system or want to quickly check which ports are opened on your desktop there might be a time to check which tool fits for this situation. There are tools to track open ports and show detailed listings of your network connections. Tools which can help […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: tools to track open ports

Upgrade ESXi with VMware Update Manager (VUM) – [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 24, 2015

On few of my previous posts I showed you how to patch ESXi hosts via CLI (Putty) or simply via CD/DVD where you put the CD in the server > reboot > change boot order in BIOS > upgrade.  Tedious, but works. Both methods are good when working in small environments or on ESXi hosts […]

| Filed Under: How To, Videos Tagged With: Upgrade ESXi with VMware Update Manager

New Free Community Tool – All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility

There is a new free community tool which has made its apparition yesterday. The news came out via Brian Graf’s tweet pointing the to the blog post of Rawlinson Rivera who introduces the usage and scope. Free = yes, but unsupported by VMware… The All-Flash VSAN configuration utility allows to tag/untag flash devices as capacity […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility

Patch VMware vCenter Server (VCSA)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 20, 2019

Upgrade from VCSA 5.5 to VCSA 6.0

In this guide you’ll learn how-to patch VMware vCenter Server. Since there has been few changes since the vCenter Server 5.5, now in the vCenter server 6 the things works little bit differently. Previous version of VMware vCenter server appliance has had a UI which if you remember was accessible through a port 5480, but […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Patch VMware vCenter Server

Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 24, 2017

How to upgrade LSI 3008 via UEFI

As you know my lab got an addition this year, the Supermicro’s Single CPU board a X10SRH-CLN4F model. In this post, we will be upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F. It is a board with four 1-Gigs Intel NICs, IPMI, and lots of other features which I previously missed on consumer based boards. It’s […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F

VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more…

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

VMware Cloud-Native Applications is new model of application distribution across nodes in clustered environment. Today VMware is announcing Cloud-Native applications based on several projects based on open source building blocks for containerized applications. Projects which are Open source and which will in the future allows easier deployment, management and securing of infrastructures which are becoming more […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Cloud-Native Applications

Free Clipboard manager called Remembr – Friday Freebie

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 17, 2015

Remembr - A free Clipboard Manager

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) […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Remembr Clipboard manager

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

RackWare App DR for VMware vCloud Air allows enterprises to leverage vCloud Air as an off-premises Disaster Recovery data center

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: disaster recovery, DR for physical and virtual, dr for physical servers

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Virtual Router - Freeware

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 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Virtual Router for Windows

Free Veeam Endpoint Backup Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 14, 2015

Veeam Endpoint Backup

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Veeam Endpoint Backup, Veeam Endpoint Backup

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