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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

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

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 3, 2015

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

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: X10SRH-CLN4F

ESXi Offline Bundle Download – To Upgrade ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Well, this post isn’t ready about where to download this file but rather how to make your ESXi to download it….ESXi offline bundle file allows upgrade ESXi 5.x to 6.0 with a single line of code (or rather two..) via SSH – check my post on it here. You need to download the ESXi Offline Bundle for […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi Offline Bundle Download

WinReducer for W8.x, W10 can customize Windows ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Winreducer - load the WIndows 8.1 iso

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, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: W10 can customize Windows ISO, WinReducer for W8.x

Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 7, 2015

Activate Promiscuous mode on vSwitch

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Nested ESXi 6 in a Lab

How to Tag SSD as Capacity Tier in VSAN 6

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 3, 2015

tag SSD as capacity

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 […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Tag SSD as Capacity, VMware VSAN All Flash

VCP 6 Exam Available – What’s Your Options?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

VMware has finally released a VCP 6 Certification Exam. Still in beta for now and there is also a new vSphere 6 Foundation Beta exam. We’ll see the details in this post. The new exam was announced by VMware few days back and we can see that new candidates will now need to take two […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP 6 Exam Available

How to backup and restore vPostgres database on VCSA 6

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

How to backup vPostgres DB on VCSA 6

After the release of VMware vSphere 6, the vCenter Server Appliance 6 (Linux) has a possibility to run vPostgres internal DB. The VCSA with vPostgress DB can support up to up to 1000 hosts and 10,000 VMs using the embedded database. If you running vCenter server 6 appliance (VCSA) the built in vPostgres database can be backed […]

| Filed Under: How To Tagged With: How to backup and restore vPostgres database on VCSA 6

Install ESXi 6 to USB as Destination or Have it as Source (USB installer)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 31, 2015

Install ESXi USB

VMware ESXi hypervisor can be installed on USB stick, but you can also create USB stick which contains ESXi installer in case your server does not have CD/DVD drive. You could see in my previous post when wrote small tutorial on Install VMware ESXi on USB memory stick by using Unetbootin Freeware. I received few questions through […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: install ESXi 6 to USB, Install ESXi to USB, Use YUMI to create multiboot ESXi 6 and USXi 5.x with other Distros!

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