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A nugget – VMware tools for Nested ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

During VMworld Barcelona the news about upcoming VMware tools for Nested ESXi first came out. And after a quick confirmation with @lamw while there that a new cool fling was born, it’s a good news for the whole virtualization community. For many of you that are using nested ESXi, for learning or demoing VMware solutions, the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware tools for Nested ESXi

Privacy Manager for Chrome might be your interest

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Privacy Manager is a Chrome extension which allows quickly tweak your privacy settings. In a small window you can quickly setup the basic, but also more advanced options. You can control the downloads, cleaning startup options, delete junk files, manage cookies and network traffic. All this in very cool manner – from a small pop-up […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: chrome privacy manager, privacy manager

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring poster

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

There is a cool poster available, together with a video explaining memory management in vSphere 5. The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram explains not only the four principal memory management techniques that vSphere 5 uses, but the video points out also another aspect which is important – memory overhead. Memory overhead depends how […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vSphere 5 memory management and monitoring poster, vsphere memory management poster

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Free VMworld Session

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Another free session I want to point out is the VSAN session by Vijay Ramachadran and Christos Karamanolis from VMware. You’ll learn how VSAN works and see some under the covers functions that makes VSAN so exciting new technology for the near future. They also brings the topic of price you’re paying for magnetic disks […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware Virtual SAN

Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware 5.x – Free E-learning

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

There is a new Free E-learning course provided by VMware Education, which allows you to follow online training called Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with VMware. It’s a 3 hours long training which gives you a good overview on how to architect a deployment of Microsoft SQL Server in vSphere environments considering SQL licensing policies and […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: SQL 2012 vSphere 5, Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Linked Clone GUI Tool called LCTree – a Fling

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 31, 2013

Another usefull utility allowing to display linked clones in hierarchical view of linked clones of VMs from vCloud Director. There are two VCD version which can be used with, the 1.5 and 5.1 (5.5 is not on the list yet). Also you’ll need Java Runtime Environment 6 installed on your workstation in order to have the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: lctree, linked clones tree

Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 Poster of component architecture – Free Download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2016

If you collection freebies, this might be your interest. With the release of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 few days back, there is a new poster(s) available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. A poster showing the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V component Architecture, which can be […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Windows Server 2012 Tagged With: Windows Server 2012 R2 poster

vSphere Essentials and Veeam Free Edition Tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

vSphere Essentials does not offer vMotion functionality, only vSphere Essentials Plus and higher editions. Even if you have installed vCenter server and managing the  environment without having vmotion, you cannot move VMs from one ESXi host to another without much downtime. Here are some Veeam Free Edition Tips. Just download the Veeam trial and play with full […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Free Edition Tips

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

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