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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

vCheck v6 has been released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 16, 2017

Alan Renouf through his blog released the 6th version of very popular PowerShell script for troubleshooting vSphere installations. The script has changed from previous releases, since now it’s more easier for the community to Add new features into separate plugins. As said it’s not meant to be an audit script – to gather your ESXi […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vCheck 6, vCheck Script update 6

OneVirt Viewer Free Tool can Collects licensing informations accross many vCenter Servers

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

OneVirt Viewer - cross platform free tool for VMware vShere

New Free Application – collects data and licensing information from multiple vCenters. This Free application, which is multi-OS (Windows, MAC and Linux) permits to collect licensing informations (keys) accross multiple  vCenter servers. In fact you can add multiple vCenter Servers to the dashboard and display the licensing information on the screen or export in a CSV file format. If […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: collect licensing numbers vSphere, free tool vsphere, onevirt

VMware Goodies – Free Posters to download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

VMware Validated Designs

This post is trying to gather all available (including some old ones) VMware posters. It is not an easy task as new posters are released on regular basis and so updates are needed into this post. But we try to keep up and update this post with the latest reference posters from VMware. So far […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerCLI 5 poster, vSphere ESXi 5 free poster

Free lightweight Anti Virus Software – Microsoft Security Essentials

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Microsoft security essentials - a free antimalware from Microsoft

The Microsoft Security Essentials is free for use on genuine Windows systems. The Microsoft Security Essentials is free anti malware software which can be found on this page here. As said it’s free if runs on genuine system. As I was pleasantly surprised that the soft is quite lightweight, getting few dozens of Mb in […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free antispyware from Microsoft, Free Antivirus, Microsoft Security Essentials

How to Share files through VMDK disk file between VMs when network connection is restricted

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

How to share files between VMs - VMware vSphere 5 quick tip

Quick tip on sharing files between VMs without network connection. When you want share files between VMs which do have a restricted network access. There are two elegant ways (there might be more) to do it. One of them is the sharing possibility through a VMDK file. How it’s done? Basically what you need to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: How to share files between VMs, Share Files between VMs, VMware vSphere 5 share files

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