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StarWind Virtual SAN 2-Node Tips and Requirements

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 15, 2017

StarWind Write-Back

StarWind Virtual SAN can be installed in many different scenarios, for different purposes. The most “basic” infrastructure which is highly available (HA) (has redundancy) is an infrastructure with just two nodes, with local storage. Compared to VMware vSAN which needs a third node to host a vSAN Witness storing virtual machine witness components, so in […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind Virtual SAN 2-Node Tips and Requirements

Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning Guide – [Free]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 12, 2017

Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning

If you’re using Windows Server 2016 or planning to, you might be interested in Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning Guide, which explains what’s possible to optimize. The guide focuses on 3 different optimization types such as Hardware optimization, server roles or server sub-system optimization (tuning). This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Windows Server 2016 Performance Tuning Guide

How To Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 2, 2017

PowerCLI window copy

VMware is releasing patches on regular basis, but those aren’t always available within the latest installation ISO file (at least not for “free” customers). The idea is to build a new VMware ESXi ISO which integrates the latest patches inside. The download of latest patches is free, but My VMware account is required. You can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Create VMware ESXi ISO With Latest Patches

VMware vSphere 6.5 Free Training – 8 Lessons What’s New Fundamentals

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2017

vSphere 6.5 what's new free training

VMware has put online a free training for VMware vSphere 6.5. It’s a VMware vSphere 6.5 Free Training where you’ll discover 8 Lessons. VMware vSphere 6.5 What’s New Fundamentals is packed with all the information about vSphere 6.5, what’s new, what’s changed etc. As being said, there are eight lessons to follow and the training […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Free training vsphere 6.5, VMware vSphere 6.5 free training

How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2017

Windows 10 Anniversary

As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics Freeware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 31, 2017

Winirstat - Windows Directory Statistics

I’m sure you know this program, but some people might not. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics. This free software helps you to find out where all your disk space has gone. It is free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. We have previously reported on a different, but similar, software called Tree […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

Cool Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

SoftEther VPN manager with all options

There is a Cool Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN. The product consists of several modules (server, client, bridge) and is available for Windows (including ARM machines), Linux and MacOS, or Android/iPAD. Thanks to Joshua Stenhouse who told me that he’s using this product it in his lab. I’m usually not a much into a VPN […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VPN Server Software SoftEther VPN

TeraCopy 3.0 release – A popular file transfer utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

TeraCopy 3 Released

TeraCopy 3.0 – A popular file transfer utility has been released a few days ago bringing better UI, faster copy speed, and easier usage. The product brought some significant improvements from the past releases and introduces also new file replace dialog, copy with elevated Windows Service and VSS or support for an unlimited number of files. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Teracopy 3.0

How to use VMware IOInsight – Free IO Testing Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 24, 2017

VMware IOInsight vCenter Login

Measuring performance of VMs can be a difficult task. Several tools, several methods… VMware has released a new tool which helps to monitor a performance of selected VMs, or rather VMDKs. The tool is called IOInsight. The tool is packaged as a virtual appliance, so the deployment takes just a few minutes. The title of this […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Videos

DISM ++ is Free Utility better than the command line version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

DISM plus plus toolkit

DISM ++ is a freeware application which allows managing of WIM images and also your PC. I’d recommend doing a full image backup (with Veeam endpoint for example) before using this software. DISM ++ is Free Utility which is very promising. To manage WIM images and do different Windows optimizations and cleaning. In fact, it is better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: DISM ++ is Free Utility

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