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Free Veeam Endpoint Backup Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 14, 2015

Veeam Endpoint Backup

Veeam has finally released  Free Veeam Endpoint Backup software. It’s free and will always stays free. Veeam Endpoint Backup is destined to protect physical computers/laptops by creating image level backups (note: can also do file level backup, but is slower) where the 1st backup is Full and the next backups are incremental. You can restore the […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Veeam Endpoint Backup, Veeam Endpoint Backup

WinReducer for W8.x, W10 can customize Windows ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Winreducer - load the WIndows 8.1 iso

If you know Nlite (now supports W8 and W10 preview too) you probably like customizing Windows ISOs. There has always been an alternative called WinReducer that I blogged about in the past. The good news is that this free software got an update recently and is able to support W7 up to W10 (preview). WinReducer for W8.x, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: W10 can customize Windows ISO, WinReducer for W8.x

Install ESXi 6 to USB as Destination or Have it as Source (USB installer)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 31, 2015

Install ESXi USB

VMware ESXi hypervisor can be installed on USB stick, but you can also create USB stick which contains ESXi installer in case your server does not have CD/DVD drive. You could see in my previous post when wrote small tutorial on Install VMware ESXi on USB memory stick by using Unetbootin Freeware. I received few questions through […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: install ESXi 6 to USB, Install ESXi to USB, Use YUMI to create multiboot ESXi 6 and USXi 5.x with other Distros!

Certificate Manager for vCenter Server Appliance 5.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 28, 2015

There is new free tool from VMware Labs which was just released. It’s destined to be used with vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 and It allows to replace certificates for vCenter Server, Inventory Service, Log Browser, and Auto Deploy and it uses GUI front end. Note that under vSphere 5.5 there was only a CLI tool, which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Certificate Manager for vCenter Server Appliance 5.5

How-To Get the Best Performance On VSAN Cluster – Technical PDF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 25, 2015

VMware Virtual SAN™ 6.0 Performance Scalability and Best Practices

There is new paper called VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Performance: Scalability and Best Practices, which discuses How-To Get the Best Performance On VSAN Cluster. The Authors are   Amitabha Banerjee (staff engineer), Lenin Singaravelu ( senior staff engineer) and Julie Brodeur who works as senior technical writer in the Performance Engineering group at VMware. Paper which has 23 pages. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How-To Get the Best Performance On VSAN Cluster

Sexilog – Free Tool Optimized for VMware vSphere Environment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Sexilog Dashboards

New free tool called Sexilog has been launched by two fellow bloggers Raphael Schitz (@hypervisor_fr ) and Frederic Martin (@vmdude_fr). It provides many built-in dashboards to get real-time logs from your ESXi hosts, vCenter, but also other products which can use Syslog, SNMP traps or Windows event logs. Sexilog is a Free Tool Optimized for VMware vSphere Environment. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Sexilog - Free Tool Optimized for VMware vSphere Environment

Get Nakivo Backup and Replication 5.5 NFR license

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I wanted to quickly shared one of my sponsor’s offer for IT pros. It’s a Nakivo who offers free NFR license of their backup and replication product – Nakivo Backup & Replication 5.5, which you can get for your lab. The offer is for current VMUG members, VMware vExperts, VCIs, VCPs, VTSPs, and VSPs. The product […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Get Nakivo Backup and Replication 5.5 NFR

VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual

Another must have document if your’re into VSAN. Again, this document called VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual, which is written by Cormac Hogan (VMware) but this time it does not has 80 pages, but 295! It’s not a simple PFD but rather a book which you can download for free. It’s very […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware Virtual SAN Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual, VMware VSAN 6.0

VCS to VCVA Converter – Window to Linux Based vCenter Migration Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VCS to VCVA Converter

There is new utility which has been released by VMware Labs – VCS to VCVA Converter. It’s a tool which allows migrate Windows based vCenter to VCVA (preconfigured vCenter on Linux based virtual appliance). The utility has won Fling contest 2013 and has just been released as v. 0.9. One of the requirements is that Widnows […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VCS to VCVA Converter

Snapwatcher for VMware – Free Tool to fix snapshots in VMware environment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Snapwatcher - Free tool to fix broken snapshots

Opvizor has just released new free tool called Snapwatcher which enables to scan your VMware environment for orphaned snapshots and snapshots that aren’t visible through vSphere client. The tool not only shows you the snapshots, but also fix them. Snapwatcher for VMware can not only report on snapshots, datastore space savings when deleting or fixing […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free tool for tracking VMware snapshots, snapwatcher for VMware, Snapwatcher free tool, vmware snapshots broken

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