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FreeNAS 11.3 New Release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 30, 2020

Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and  ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: FreeNAS 11.3

How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2020

VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To Tagged With: disable VMware ESXi complex password, disable VMware ESXi complex passwords

VMware OS Optimization tool now supports Windows Server 2019

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2019

One of the very popular “Flings”, a free utility from VMware Labs got an update recently. One of the interesting updates is support of Windows Server 2019 and also two new templates for Windows 10. The VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) is a powerful utility that we have already reviewed on this blog several times, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: optimize Microsoft OS, VMware OS Optimization Tool

StarWind VSAN has a high level of customization

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 9, 2019

StarWind Virtual SAN

I don’t think that I have to re-introduce StarWind company to our readers. Their software solutions were simple but effective for many years. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are also provided by StarWind and since this year they are also present in the Magic Quadrant by Gartner. Gartner’s study says that “StarWind VSAN offers a high […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind VSAN

Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 26, 2019

Today’s free download is provided by Kemp Technologies. They offer a free load balancer for different virtualization platforms – VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Oracle VirtualBox or Citrix XenServer. The free product has some limitations of course, but still, it’s free. And if you like it you can upgrade as you’ll be all ready familiar […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Load Balancer

Iperius Backup 6.3.0 Released Adding File Level Restore Capability

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

It’s been a while since we reviewed this promising backup and replication product from Iperius software. Just a few days ago, news came by that Iperius Backup 6.3.0 has added a File Level Restore capability. It is a necessary and N°1 feature for every admin out there. You can read our full review of Iperius […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Free Stuff Tagged With: Iperius Backup 6.3.0 Released

VMware ESXi Free and StarWind – Two node setup for remote offices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 4, 2020

StarWind VSAN 2-Node Setup

When you have lots of remote offices and you are budget limited, you might be interested in an architecture where you’ll have your VMs running on VMware Free hypervisor (or with vSphere Essentials Kit for about $600) and shared storage provided by StarWind VSAN installed on 2-nodes. This is the most cost-effective solution where you […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware ESXi Free and StarWind

Interesting Upcoming vSphere Feature similar to GPO’s capability – vSphere Perspectives

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 18, 2019

VMware keeps improving vSphere in every release, there is however a way you can test new capabilities through VMware Flings. There is HTML 5 Web clien update which has an interesting feature added called vSphere “Perspectives”. This capability/feature has been released as a part of vSphere HTML 5 web client VMware FLING update and as […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere Perspectives

Free VMware Kubernetes Academy Online Courses

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 6, 2020

Kubernetes Free Learning courses

A new free learning resource from VMware has recently made its apparition. After VMworld 2019 US announce with project Pacific, about the integration of Kubernetes directly into the heart of vSphere and ESXi, it’s time to learn more about Kubernetes. Kubernetes academy is a completely free online training resource available to anyone. Kubernetes Academy courses […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: VMware Kubernetes

Free PowerCLI E-book to download and a possibility to Win $20 Amazon voucher

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 21, 2020

If you currently use PowerCLI to automate basic tasks with pre-defined scripts, you’ll already know how powerful automation can be. However, taking the next step and customizing scripts to carry out tasks specifically designed for your needs opens a whole new world of opportunities. This new eBook from Altaro takes you there. Written by VMware […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips

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