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SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse – VMware performance study

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 13, 2013

While the new SEsparse disk format introduced in vSphere 5.1 for Horizon View based workloads only, the VMFSsparse is used for snapshoting or linked clones too. SEsparse Disk Format vs VMFSsparse are compared and tested in this study. The SESparce VMDK virtual disk format – Space Efficient Sparse Disk Format. This disk format has a new granular block allocation size […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: SEsparse, VMFSsparse

How to Delete Libraries in Windows 7 easily with free tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Windows 7 is good OS, but there is one feature that I don’t like. It’s the Libraries which are always on the way. It’s been a long time since I wanted get a post done which explains step by step how to delete libraries in Windows 7. How to get rid of libraries? The thing is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: How to Delete Libraries in Windows 7, How to disable libraries in Windows 7

vFlash Read Cache Performance PDF (vFRC) – vSphere 5.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 3, 2013

New whitepaper which has been released by VMware brings details about new feature present in vSphere 5.5 – vFlash Read Cache (VFRC). I already reported on the details about VFRC in my article – VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache. The paper brings more details about vFlash Read Cache Performance through much deeper testing with different workload […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vFlash Read Cache Performance

Zentyal Linux 3.2 released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

I’ve reported about Zentyal Linux few months back and showed two types of installs (prepackaged and on the top of Ubuntu server). I found that this Linux distro is interesting enough for small, or very small businesses. Its Ubuntu Server based distribution which uses an GUI front-end for easy administration. This is interesting for people […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Zentyal Linux

Performance best practices for vSphere 5.5 – technical PDF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware vSphere 5.5 is officially GA since few days. The whole vCloud suite starts to leverage Flash features (vFlash read cache) and upcoming VSAN. VSAN really is something that’s transforming the classic shared storage market and shared storage approach in design.  VSAN is discussed briefly in the pdf Performance best practices for vSphere 5.5. I’m planning […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Performance best practices for vSphere 5.5

Nlite alternative for Windows 8 and Windows 7 – WinReducer 8

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

Everyone knows Nlite, right? Nlite is tool for reducing the size of original Windows ISOs, but the software hasn’t been updated yet for Windows 7 or Widnows 8. Good news, the developer is working on it. With such a tools you can basically strip some options directly from the ISO and install more lightweight system. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Nlite alternative, WinReducer 8

New Free VMware Labs available Online at HOL

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2017

Few days back I reported about new labs that has been added to Free VMware Labs at Hands On Line after VMworld San Francisco. And today VMware has added even more labs to the list, which starts to be quite impressive.  All new VMware technology (yes, the one which is not available for public yet too !) is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: New Free labs HOL

vSphere Best Practices on iSCSI – Deployments and Design

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 10, 2013

vSphere Best Practices on iSCSI

Newly updated white paper by VMware is all about design and deployment of vSphere on iSCSI storage, which is the most used by smaller and bigger customers. It’s a document which has been updated last week called iSCSI Design Consideration and Deployment guide teaches the best practices for running VMware vSphere on iSCSI storage.  Authored by Cormac […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vSphere Best Practices on iSCSI

Copy files from one cloud service provider to another – with Mover

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 7, 2013

There is a nice and convenient service called Mover.io which allows easily make transfer of your files from Dropbox to SkyDrive for example. But not only. There is quite a few connectors available through the service. It’s possible to transfer files and folders from many online storage service providers. This can be useful for individuals, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: DropBox, Google Drive, sync files

New Free Script (with GUI) called Event-O-Matic to pick an event to generate a PowerShell Code

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 2, 2013

Luc Dekens has created a nice script which brings up a GUI which enables you to pick up a number of events, and then the script will generate PowerShell code which is placed to the clipboard. He named it Event-O-Matic and it’s available from his blog. When you connect to your vCenter, you have on […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Event-O-Matic, PowerCli GUI, PowerShell GUI

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