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How-to Apply VMware Free License to VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

How to assign Free ESXi 6 License to ESXi 6

One of those questions that are often asked by VMware newbies is How-to Apply VMware Free License to VMware ESXi 6.0. Because even if you think that the product is free, it must be licensed. If not, it installs as 60 days trial, which expires after….60 days. Compared to other hypervisors, the free version of VMware […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXi free

Free VMware Training – vRealize Orchestrator for vRealize Automation [V6.1] Fundamentals

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

There is new Free VMware Training available online (you need an account – also free) which teaches vRealize Orchestrator for vRealize Automation [V6.1] Fundamentals.  It’s 1.5 hours long training which walks you through the fundementals of automation and orchestration with vRealize Orchestrator. The training has only 3 lessons but they are packed with content! Lesson […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VMware Learning, vRealize Orchestrator free training

Another Alternative to Microsoft’s SQL Management Studio

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

In my post 5 Free Alternatives to Microsoft SQL Management Studio I’ve mentioned five products that can manage SQL databases and can be used as alternatives to Microsoft SQL Management Studio. I’m sure that there is even more tools that exists, but today I’ll show you Another alternative to Microsoft’s SQL Management Studio which exists as a […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: SQL database studio

When Your Favorite Vendor Will Turn Into Indoor Farming Business?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

It’s kinda cool to see vendors like Fujitsu, Sharp or now Toshiba to really go green. I mean producing salads and lettuces in indoor, clean facilities – Indoor Farming Business. No, it’s really no joke and it makes sense. After Sharp producing strawberies in Dubai, Fujitsu has started to grow lettuces in sterilized clean rooms […]

| Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Indoor Farming Business

VMware Migration With No Budget – Here is How

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware migration is basically possible only with vMotion license which is included with Essentials Plus and higher VMware licensing. This allows to migrate a VM and to have no downtime with loosing connectivity to a VM and the end users not even noticing that the VM has migrated to another host. But how about users […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware Migration

FreeNAS 9.3 Beta released supporting 7 VAAI Primitives

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

FreeNAS is very active and have quite short release cycles. If you don’t know FreeNAS you should check one of my posts where I’m hooking VMware ESXi to FreeNAS in a step-by-step article. FreeNAS latest beta (9.3 release) brings some features that VMware admins shall be happy with – VAAI. VAAI allows to offload many […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: FreeNAS 9.3

Use this Free Microsoft Utility for Download Windows 8.1 Setup ISO Or To Create Bootable USB Stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

Previously Microsoft did not allowed publicly download the Windows 8.1 U1 iso file and create boot media, and if you had a computer running Windows 8 you basically had to use Windows store to download the upgrade to W 8.1. Now things has changed and it’s possible to download and use Free Microsoft Utility for Download […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Microsoft Utility for Download Windows 8.1 Setup ISO

VMturbo Operations Manager 5.0 Adds Network Control Module and More

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

VMturbo just released v 5.0 of their flagship software – VMturbo Operations Manager. The product matured over time with important releases but the 5.0 has added an important one – network control module.  VMturbo places automatically workloads communicating often, together in order to minimize east-west traffic and reduce latency. One could achieve the same using […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMturbo Operations Manager 5.0

How-to restore computer account with Veeam Backup and Replication Free version And Track Changes On AD Objects

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

Veeam availability suite has some goodies inside. One of them is Free Veeam Explorer For Active Directory.  Veeam Availability Suite v8 which has been released recently also has Veeam One v8 product providing monitoring, and capacity planning. Both products are compatible with latest version of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Today we show How-to restore computer […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication Free

StorMagic SvSAN 5.2 for VMware and Hyper-V Has Also Write-back caching (SSD)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

StorMagic has been around since few years now and in the past their simple approach for mirroring data with two ESXi hosts was one of the solutions that I’ve been looking at to for small environments. The recent release of StorMagic 5.2 brought also some more data services like Write-back caching (using SSDs) or Data Migration between […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Stormagic SvSAN 5.2

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