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How-to Create a Free VMware Branded Linux Virtual Appliance with Suse Studio

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

Suse Studio enables you to create a Free VMware Branded Linux Virtual Appliance. You’re able to choose from different versions, desktop or server types, add different packages etc. One thing that is cool that you can create your own virtual appliance with VMware branded login screens etc, free of charge. The Virtual Appliance which will […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-to Create a VMware Branded Virtual Appliance

PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation – Free GUI Utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation

Thist free utility called PoshPAIG (PowerShell Audit Installation GUI) is developed and maintained by Boe Prox at learn-powershell.net. The tool allows you to Audit installed patches, Install patches remotely. The possibility to export the results to CSV files is also included. This very interesting feature for doing PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation on windows server systems, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation

RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome – cool extension

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 1, 2016

RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome

RSS Feed Reader for Google Chrome enables you to follow your favorite sites within Chrome browser. It installs from the Google Store as a one click. You can get instantly notified when a website present in your list updates its content. The notification can be easily turned On or Off, because it can be disturbing to […]

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Veeam Backup Free Edition does some good compression – video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

Veeam backup Free edition offers great compression ratio. The free version of Veeam product in fact takes only the blocs that are used for the creation of the compressed .vbk file. The whole VM is actually encapsulated (VMDK disks + VMX configuration file) into single .vbk file. The swap file isn’t backed up either. Veeam […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup Free Edition

vCenter Support Assistant 5.1 – free plugin for vCenter

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 27, 2013

vCenter support assistant 5.1 is available as a free download from VMware website. Not only you can use this product to create and fill support requests, but also to generate and collect logs with direct upload capability. vCenter support assistant 5.1 is available is virtual appliance, which gets deployed from OVF file. This product is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vCenter support assistant, vCenter Support Assistant 5.1

What is VMware CTK file format?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

A file with extension CTK can be found by using the VMware datastore browser, in the same folder as other VMDK file, where the VM stores all its files (VMDK, VMX, VMSD, NVRAM….). What is VMware CTK file for? The CTK file is used by Changed Block Tracking (CBT). It lists the block changes made since last backup. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware CTK file

Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 3.0 Technical Hands on Guide

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2018

I was nicely surprised by the content of this free E-book from Veeam which is a real step-by-step guide. The document is called Understanding Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 and it’s a detailed, illustrated guide for Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 3.0. For those of you who wants to see step-by-step which allows you to learn about Hyper-V […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff Tagged With: Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 3.0

Windows Server 2012 installing and configuring (70-410) training

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2016

The new training called Windows Server 2012 Installing and configuring (70-410) Training will allows you to learn through 23 lessons, the installation and configuration. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 brought some good stuff for IT administrators, users and operators. Many of the new features, and roles (hyper-v) has progressed since previous release of Microsoft Server (2008 release). If you’re an […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Windows Server 2012 Tagged With: windows server 2012 installing and configuring (70-410) training

What is VMware .vSphere-HA folder for?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

If you’re running VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) cluster, you have certainly noticed a folder named “.vSphere-HA” on several of your shared datastores. What is VMware .vSphere-HA folder for? This folder has something to do with HA, you think, but what exactly is stored there? You certainly do not want to delete it, do you? […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: What is VMware .vSphere-HA

VMware datastore hearbeating – How this functionality works?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 21, 2013

VMware Datastore Hearbeating

When configuring VMware High Availability (HA) cluster, you have the possibility to check as a secondary communication channel  a datastore (or several ones), during the configuration wizard. VMware Datastore Hearbeating provides an additional option for determining if host is in failed state or not. Before vSphere 5.0 era, in vSphere 4.1, if host had a hardware […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware Datastore Hearbeating

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