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How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 9, 2019

This comes back on a regular basis. Users asking how they can create an installation ISO with the latest VMware patches in it. In this post we’ll walk you through the process, we will learn How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File. We have created a guide on this […]

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

Veeam Backp and Replication 9.5 U4a

New update from Veeam today as the company has just released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a. You can download the latest patch slipstreamed into the main ISO image here. It is a build 9.5.4.2753) which has 4.9 Gb in size as it also includes all the tools and agents (Windows and Linux). The new […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.2 – Create and configure vSphere objects

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

This post, VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.2 – Create and configure vSphere objects, will detail the configuration of vSphere objects (clusters, datacenters….). It is another objective which is a requirement to pass the latest VMware VCP Datacenter Exam called by VMware officially a “VCP-DCV 2019 certification”. As you can see there is a year in the title, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.2 – Create and configure vSphere objects

USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Released as Fling

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 13, 2019

USB Network Native Driver for ESXi

There is a new fling app which will interest many home lab users as this application will be able to add an additional Network adapter via USB port to your ESXi host. USB-based network adapter can also be plugged in and unplugged while ESXi is running (Hot-plug). When you have no free PCI slot in a […]

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Top 3 Free Backup Software For VMware and Microsoft and their limitations

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

This is a post about today’s popular Free Backup software for VMware and Microsoft. All free products are really free, lifetime, but have their limits, so in this post, we’ll give you an overview for three of them. In the past we have had a post about Top 5 backup software for VMware and the post […]

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StarWind V2V Converter v9 Free Utility Updated

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2019

Hey readers, it’s Friday and today we have a cool news update for you. A free utility from StarWind got a new update. StarWind V2V Converter v9 build 110, which allows also P2V conversions, has been updated so now it can also convert vSphere RDM disks or introducing logging to text files, so you can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips

What is VMware VM Customization Specification and How to use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 30, 2019

VMware VM Customization Specification is used for cloning of existing data center VMs or deploying a VM from a template.  Some non-VMware admins might not know this feature if they don’t work a lot with VMware technologies. It’s nobody’s fault, everybody is learning every day in IT. Our blog was created mainly for this purpose […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: VMware VM Cloning, What is VMware VM Customization Specification

How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 18, 2018

StarWind Management Console

Creating Image file device in StarWind VSAN has some options that we’ll discuss today. In this post, you’ll learn How To Create a Stand-Alone Image File device in StarWind VSAN. Image device can be configured with or without cache. The cache is used to speed up the processing of disk requests using a faster intermediate storage […]

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FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2018

FreeNAS has been in development over years. I still remember setting up one of my first iSCSI connections for my ESXi lab with FreeNAS. Yeah, FreeNAS has a long history. This new release has brought in a new UI and some backend updates that we’ll talk about today – FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Freenas

Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2018

If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

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