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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

How to setup Kiwi Syslog server as a destination for ESXi log files

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

KIWI Syslog server to collect ESXi logs. In my article about configuring vMA as a destination of log files of ESXi hosts I explained how to put in place a solution provided by VMware to collect those log files. Andy Grant which did a nice guest post goes even further adding the possibility to use […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free Kiwi Syslog server as a Destination for ESXi logs, How to setup syslog to remotely monitor

Starwind iSCSI SAN software Free with unlimited storage capacity

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 20, 2011

Starwind iSCSI SAN Free Version

A free version of Starwind SAN is available for download. There has been a Free version of Starwind SAN software made available for download at Starwind. While this free version lucks the advanced functionalities of the paid versions (like mirroring, automatic failover or failback with fast synchronization), but the Maximum storage capacity stays unlimited. With […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Free version of Starwind iSCSI SAN, Starwind iSCSI SAN Free Version

New compact PowerCLI poster printable at Home

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020

A new PowerCLI poster has been released, and it’s possible to print on smaller print devices. That’s a good news for people which missed last year’s VMworld and where those posters were given to participants. Those posters were very large. There is still this PDF version of this large format too. You can have a […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Download Free PowerCLI poster, Free PowerCLI poster compact Sized, PowerCLI 4.1 poster compact size

Run VMs from Backup file via vPower – Free lab report

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 31, 2013

There is a new whitepaper to download about running VMs directly from Backup file with vPower. A nice whitepaper which you can download for free from the link below. Download this new white paper and discover how Veeam’s new vPower technology radically boosts IT’s ability to meet tight RTO requirements by enabling administrators to run […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam U-Air, Veeam vPower

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