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StarWind Free NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator Architecture

StarWind just released new free product. It’s called NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows and it’s completely free. Not so long time ago we have written about NVMe Over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol in this post – What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)? and talked about the advantages of lower latency and higher throughput. Remember that this protocol is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: StarWind Free NVMe-oF Initiator

What is VMware Horizon Session Recording Tool?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 21, 2019

VMware Horizon Session Recording

VMware Horizon session recording tool is a Free VMware Application allowing system admins to record VMware Horizon session. This allows you to verify what contractors, vendors and remote admins are doing on your servers, but also find out what your employees are doing while logged in remotely. With Session Recording, the admin can choose to […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Tips

Windows 10 Direct download links

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 8, 2019

A cool hack which basically allows you to download Windows 10 ISO without passing through the Microsoft Media Creation tool (the Microsoft’s way). By using that tool, you can’t download the ISO file directly using any 3rd party download manager software so you can’t pause and resume the download. However, there is a workaround for that […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: Windows 10 Direct download

vSphere Mobile Client – Free Tool Download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 2, 2019

VMware Labs published a new free utility called vSphere Mobile Client allowing you to manage vSphere installation from a mobile device. For now, the utility can only be used by Android devices, but future releases should, as you imagine, allow iOS installation as well. You’ll be able to monitor, but also interact with your VMs. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: vSphere Mobile Client

Top 3 Free Software from StarWind

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 28, 2019

StarWind Virtual SAN

StarWind software has been around for a very long time. Over the years, they’ve always kept some of their software and utilities free to download and use. In this post, we’ll list Top 3 Free Software from StarWind where some of them might be useful in your environment. As an IT admin, I always like […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Free Stuff Tagged With: Top 3 Free Software from StarWind

Free VMware Performance Measure tool for HCI Systems

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 20, 2019

I’ve spotted a new Free VMware Performance measure tool for HCI systems called HCIBench. It is distributed as a “Fling” via VMware Labs site. Before downloading you must agree to the Tech Preview agreement, then the tool is available as a virtual appliance (OVF file). You should not use this tool in production, but rather […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free VMware Performance measure tool

Better Windows Shell and Terminal Emulator – Cmder

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Cmder is a terminal emulator, and best shell you’ll ever have on Windows. Or at least what’s the editor of this free software says about their product. In fact, a few weeks back Microsoft has announced that they are working on new command shell with multi tabs and multi-color features, but the product is only […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: Better Windows Shell and Terminal Emulator

Appliance (OS) root password is expired – vSphere 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

I had this message on one of my vCenter server appliances when I was going to run an update. I’m running my vCenter server in a linked mode in the lab. The messages says that “Appliance (OS) root password is expired“. In fact, just today I noticed that VMware just released a new update – […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Appliance (OS) root password is expired

VMware By vExperts – Spanish VMware Book

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

A new community project book (Spanish) might be interesting to download for our Spanish readers. The book has been written by 14 Spanish speaking authors and bloggers. They collaborated together, each for a particular chapter. The book’s name is VMware for vExperts and it’s Spanish VMware Book. VMware by vExperts is an eBook created by […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Spanish VMware Book

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 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File

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