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Free 12 months NFR License key from Starwind Software

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

Free NFR License of Starwind iSCSI SAN Software

Starwind Software offers Free NFR licenses for your lab. If you’re vExpert, MVP, MCT, VCI, CCI, CTP you can apply for a Free 12 months NFR license of HA iSCSI SAN Software from Starwind. It’s definitely  one of the easiest iSCSI solution to setup when building VMware lab. In less than 5 min you can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free NFR Starwind, Free Starwind iSCSI SAN NFR, Starwind Software

vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick Overview

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick overview

New ESXTOP PDF ressource diagram called “vSphere 5 ESXTOP quick Overview for Troubleshooting”. Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi ressources, performances, resources contention, all this might be difficult at first. There is a new Free PDF resource document available from German speaking blogger Andi Lesslhumer which might help to understand and learn some ESXTOP tricks.  The document is in English. The first version […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESXTOP, ESXTOP Diagram, ESXTOP Quick reference, Free Document ESXTOP

Top Free Courses from VMware Education

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

VMware Education - Public Source Catalog

Free Training from VMware Education VMware Education has a very good choice of learning courses at the Public Source Catalog offerings. There are paid courses, but also free of charge learning courses delivered to your web browser. I’m gonna put some spotlight today on those courses there. Not all of those training courses are for the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free VMware Courses, Free VMware Learning, VCP couses, VMware Courses, VMware Learning

Free Tool – vOPS Server Explorer, 2 in 1 product now with SearchMyVM enhanced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

vOps-server Explorer - 2.in One Free tool - now with SeachMy VM Explorer

vOps Server Explorer and SearchMyVM improved in this Free product from vKernel. The free product from vKernel called vOps Server Explorer (formerly vKernel Explorer) has been just improved. The SearchMyVM product has been added into vOps Server Explorer to became 2 in 1 Free tool. The SearchMyVM’s  “google like” searches helping administrators to easily find specific […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: free tool vsphere, vOps Server Explorer, vScope Explorer

Free tools to convert VHD into VMDK and vice versa

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Free tools to convert VHD into VMDK disk files. I was wondering on how many tools can be found to convert virtual hard disks files from VHD (Microsoft) into VMDK (VMware) and vice versa. Well, sort of. Because not all the tools here are able to do the conversion both ways… -:). Those tools, one day, or […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free tools to convert VHD to VMDK, VHD to VMDK, VMDK to VHD

Technet Virtual Labs from Microsoft are Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 8, 2017

Microsoft Technet Virtual Labs are Free

Virtual Labs from Microsoft are free, for everyone with Windows and Internet Explorer as the only requirements. I stumbled through an article (in French) the other day showing some free access to microsoft’s virtual labs. I thought, ok, let’s take it for a spin and see what it’s looks like. Remember the VMworld Copenhagen labs? […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Microsoft Technet Labs, Hyper-V Technet Labs

New strategic partnership for Starwind and new product offers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 10, 2017

Starwind vSphere Web Client Plugin

Starwind partners with Systematica and also with ETC BV. Strategic partnership for easier distribution of Starwind iSCSI SAN solutions and VM backup technologies in Italy and Netherlands. You can read both press releases below. We’ll be also talking about some interesting news from Starwind and new product offers. Starwind is a very dynamic company and now ships also […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Starwind Software

Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Windows 8 Metro UI disabler

Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware. Here is my Saturday post with some upcoming freeware utilities which can disable the new Windows 8 Metro user interface. All those utilities make the switch to old classic Win 7 style as a snap. Update: You might wanna check my post about a Free cool start menu for Windows 8 (Works on Server 2012 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Metro UI disablers, Windows 8 Metro Disabler

Sysprep Limitations – drive letters changes and others

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 28, 2012

sysprep application limitatons

Be aware of those Sysprep limitations – drive letters changes and others When using sysprep in your organisation, you might be interested in Syprep Limitations. Yes, there are some. Hard Disk with multiple partitions – That’s one of those limitation of Sysprep. This is the problem with a VM which is being “sypreped”, but the […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: limitations of sysprep, sysprep, sysprep limitations

ESXi 6.x Free – what’s the limitations?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Free Hypervizor

What’re the limitations of the  ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to clear this out. Which use cases […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: ESXi 5 Free, ESXi 5 Free - what's the limitations?, limitations ESXi 5 free

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