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Free Tool – HammerDB Benchmark Tool New Release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 14, 2018

HammerDB Free tool to benchmark Database

If you want to benchmark your DB you’ll search for a tool for the job. One of them is HammerDB which is a free and Opensource utility for Windows and Linux. You can use HammerDB to simulate a workload of multiple virtual users against the database for both transactional and analytic scenarios. HammerDB can test […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: HammerDB Benchmark Tool

What is StarWind rPerf FREE Utility?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 4, 2018

rPerf StarWind Benchmarking Tool

There is a new free utility from StarWind software called rPerf. Today we’ll have a look at What is StarWind rPerf Free utility and what are the benefits. rPerf is a free RDMA link benchmarking tool allowing you to effectively measure latency and bandwidth between different systems. The rPerf isn’t a tool with GUI but […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind rPerf FREE

What is Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 7, 2018

MSIX Packaging Tool enables you to update your existing (or older) win32 application packages to the MSIX format. You can run your older desktop installers through this tool and obtain an MSIX package that you can install on your machine and upload to the Microsoft Store (coming soon). According to Microsoft, it will be manageable […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019

Windows Admin Center Update – New Features in latest build

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 9, 2018

There is another new build of Windows Admin Center for Windows Server. This build, 1806, is the first post-GA preview release. We have thoroughly reported on the GA Release of Windows Admin center in our detailed post explaining the product. One of the new features in this build is the possibility to view and copy […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Windows Admin Center

Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility – Free Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 26, 2018

cross vcenter workload migration

There is a new update on Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility, which is a free tool for VMware vSphere. The tool is free but is not intended to be used in the production system, because it’s only experimental. The same for all the other VMware Flings. Download only when accepting the checkbox…. The latest update has brought […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility

Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2018

Rufus - tool to create a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi

With every release of VMware ESXi hypervisor, we need to update our USB stick which we’ll use to clean installation or upgrade of ESXi hypervisor. Today we’ll show Top 3 Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive. (Well, after long search, only two…). I’m sure that there are many others as it […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free Tools To Create ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Flash Drive

What is ESXi Compatibility Checker?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2018

VMware has a free tool called ESXi Compatibility Checker which can check your hardware if it’s still supported by VMware. ESXi Compatibility Checker is a Free utility (a Fling) which has been released recently. We might see an integration directly to the vCenter server in future releases of vSphere. That would be nice. But for now, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi Compatibility Checker

VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer – Free Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

DRS Entitlement Viewer

Today we’ll have a look at a new tool, new “fling” as VMware calls it. It’s called VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer. It’s been just released and it allows you to get a hierarchical view of vCenter DRS cluster inventory with entitled CPU and memory resources for each resource pool and VM in the cluster. It installs […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer

VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMUG is Free

Win an all-expenses-paid trip to VMworld US or Europe

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2018

Update: This raffle has already ended. You can, however, check out my post on some tips and tricks for VMworld here: Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career or see details about VMUG Advantage which gives you an additional discount of $100 for VMworld pass – VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL […]

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