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How to install WordPress on a Local Computer

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Instant Wordpress - a convenient way to run Wordpress locally - for testing purposes

You can be up and running in less than 5 minutes. I came through this nice little tool which packages a WordPress Installation together with Apache Webserver, PHP and MySQL database. All comes prepackaged, so after the initial installation to your local drive, you’re presented with a small dashboard where you can find buttons which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Blogging, How to install Wordpress on local computer, Running Wordpress Locally, Wodpress localy

Performance and Best Practices for VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 29, 2011

VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices

New white paper from VMware addressing some performance best practices has been released. You’ll find the setup being used in the test, the configuration of the network, hosts, the deployment method used for the VUM software and the different choices depending of size of virtual infrastructure. The different sections: – VUM Server Host deployment – […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices, VUM 5 best practices

VSA Technical Evaluation Guide in PDF is available

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VSA evaluation guide Free whitepaper

This Technical Evaluation Guide Whitepaper is technical guide to easily test VSA – vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 introduced new product which I think will become very popular for small businesses. The product is called vSphere Storage Appliance and it uses local disks of each ESXi host in the cluster to create a shared […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Whitepaper VSA, VSA Book VMware, VSA promo, vSphere 5 promo, vSphere 5 storage appliance, vSphere Storage Appliance

Free PowerCLI 5.0 Poster to download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Free powerCLI poster download

With vSphere 5.0 and PowerCLI 5.0 there is also a new poster to download! I would have been a bad reporter if I would not share this information with my readers…. -:) Yes, the new PowerCLI 5.0 poster, which is a free download was released during VMworld 2011 at Las Vegas. VMware vSphere PowerCLI is […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free PowerCLI poster, PowerCLI 5.0

vSphere 5 – The official documentation in many different formats is available now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2017

VMware vSphere 5 Documentation Sets - new formats introduced

With the yesterday’s release of vSphere 5 an official documentation for the product is available now, and in many different formats. With the GA release of VMware vSphere 5 yesterday, there has been all the product documentation made widely available. The product documentation is a highly appreciate resource for every vSphere Admin here, since for […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: ESX 5 documentaton, ESXi 5 docs, VMware vSphere 5 Documentation, vSphere 5 docs

How Many VMs can you fit in virtualized environment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

Free Whitepaper - Detecting available VM slots for capacity planning

A new whitepaper from vKernel showing a metrics-based approach to calculate a number of VMs which can fit in your virtualized environment. This free resource publication from Alex Rosenblat and Ken Latimer shows you some deep dives into some metrics which one hast to take into consideration when making a calculation of how many VM […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Capacity Planning VMware, Free whitepaper, VM Slots, VMware vSphere VM slots

Free Tool from vKernel – Capacity view

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Free Tool from vKernel - Capacity View

See how many VMs have over-allocated memory in your environment. To get a quick view on your Virtual environment when it comes to over-allocating memory to your VMs, you might consider this free tool from vKernel. This tool as many others free tools has a real benefit when you want to get a fast overview […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: vKernel capacity view, vRAM entitlement, vRAM sizing

PowerGUI goes v. 3.0

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

PowerGUI v3 released

PowerGUI v. 3.0 released. Few days ago there has been also a new release of PowerGUI. PowerGUI provides easy to use graphical user interface for creating and managing scripts. You can leverage the use of power packs, like the one for VMware vSphere which has been a community effort in collaboration with Alan Renouf. I blogged about […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: PowerGui, PowerGUI 3.0, VMware Power Pack

Manage ESXi hosts without vCenter with latest fling called Boomerang

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 26, 2019

VMware Boomerang - a Freeware to manage multiple ESX/ESXi/vCenter Servers

New Free Application from VMware called VMware Boomerang. The application is available through VMware Labs together with many other cool applications there. Andy Grant did a guest post recently about another application from VMware labs called VMware Guest Console. This particular Freeware from VMware Labs can do that but it’s not predestined for that usage. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free tool to manage ESXi/ESX/vCenter servers, VMware Boomerang

Starwind Virtual SAN Appliance

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

starwind VSA - Virtual SAN Appliance - preview Edition

StarWind Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) has been announced by Starwind Software. New product announcement from Starwind software. Starwind SAN is known to be usually installed on Windows systems. I covered several times on my website the configuration steps and different possibilities. Recently Starwind announced Free version of Starwind SAN too. So how about a Virtual […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Starwind iSCSI VSA, Starwind VSA, Virtual SAN appliance

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