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ESXi Free Version – 3 Ways to Clone a VM

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2019

When you have an ESXi standalone hypervisor running in a lab or test environment, it’s not possible (simple way) to clone a VM. If the host is managed by vCenter server, than it’s a simple right click > clone VM. But in situations where vCenter server is not available, what’s your options? The ESXi Free Version is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXi Free Version, How to clone a VM in ESXi Free

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide – Get Your Copy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide

VMware App Volumes (previously Cloud Volumes) are generally available from VMware. The product has now been integrated and can be I had the chance to see the live demo during this year’s VMworld and also recorded a video from the presentation. It’s pretty impressive to see almost unlimited number of applications being delivered to a […]

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How-to Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text With ClipX – Free Clipboard Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

So many times I’ve been looking into a some kind of clipboard manager which would remember what you have copied into the clipboard earlier. Some kind of clipboard with history. The tool I found can Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text. I found it! This tool is for anyone when working with portions of text […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: clipboard history, How-to Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text

Veeam Endpoint Backup – Recovery Goodies

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 10, 2015

There are some cool utilities in the upcoming Veeam Endpoint Backup (currently in beta). I wrote about the product during VMworld Barcelona but now I had the beta access so I could test in my lab a bit further. I installed it on my laptop. While the Bare metal restore is certainly one of the highlights, […]

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Free Tool – VM Check Alignment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I know that alignment of VMs is less important now than it was few years ago, because modern OS like Windows 2012 or Windows 7 does align correctly when installing in Virtual environments, but still. But if your infrastructure runs some 2003 or 2008 VMs, than still you need a tool which checks if VM […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VM Check Alignment

How-to Apply VMware Free License to VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

How to assign Free ESXi 6 License to ESXi 6

One of those questions that are often asked by VMware newbies is How-to Apply VMware Free License to VMware ESXi 6.0. Because even if you think that the product is free, it must be licensed. If not, it installs as 60 days trial, which expires after….60 days. Compared to other hypervisors, the free version of VMware […]

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Free VMware Training – vRealize Orchestrator for vRealize Automation [V6.1] Fundamentals

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

There is new Free VMware Training available online (you need an account – also free) which teaches vRealize Orchestrator for vRealize Automation [V6.1] Fundamentals.  It’s 1.5 hours long training which walks you through the fundementals of automation and orchestration with vRealize Orchestrator. The training has only 3 lessons but they are packed with content! Lesson […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VMware Learning, vRealize Orchestrator free training

FreeNAS 9.3 Beta released supporting 7 VAAI Primitives

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 4, 2018

FreeNAS is very active and have quite short release cycles. If you don’t know FreeNAS you should check one of my posts where I’m hooking VMware ESXi to FreeNAS in a step-by-step article. FreeNAS latest beta (9.3 release) brings some features that VMware admins shall be happy with – VAAI. VAAI allows to offload many […]

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Use this Free Microsoft Utility for Download Windows 8.1 Setup ISO Or To Create Bootable USB Stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

Previously Microsoft did not allowed publicly download the Windows 8.1 U1 iso file and create boot media, and if you had a computer running Windows 8 you basically had to use Windows store to download the upgrade to W 8.1. Now things has changed and it’s possible to download and use Free Microsoft Utility for Download […]

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How-to restore computer account with Veeam Backup and Replication Free version And Track Changes On AD Objects

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

Veeam availability suite has some goodies inside. One of them is Free Veeam Explorer For Active Directory.  Veeam Availability Suite v8 which has been released recently also has Veeam One v8 product providing monitoring, and capacity planning. Both products are compatible with latest version of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Today we show How-to restore computer […]

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