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Let’s Encrypt for VMware ESXi standalone hosts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

A very cool solution for standalone ESXi hosts used in production or home labs that I want to report today. In fact, I have received a quick email from Horst Fickel, which is one of our readers, letting me know that he and his friends have released a lightweight VIB package for VMware ESXi which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Let's Encrypt for VMware ESXi

Patch Standalone VMware ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware has released recently the latest patch for ESXi 7. A few weeks earlier (in May) we reported about VMware vCenter Server 7.0 U3e released – another maintenance release fixing vSphere with Tanzu. You can either update your ESXi hosts via vSphere Lifecycle Manager, or if you do not use vCenter for managing your environment, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Patch Standalone ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version, Patch Standalone VMware ESXi 7 to 7u3e latest version

How VMworld shaped my IT carreer?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 22, 2022

VMworld Barcelona 2016 - VMUG Party

VMworld for me has been an awesome experience. It allows you to take some action and explore new products and technologies, and meet people which will explain how it works and what it brings as an advantage over older, legacy technology. Many new products are always announced during VMworld/VMware EXPLORE events. Schedule builder is now […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization

Tutorial Sessions in the Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Tutorials sessions VMware EXPLORE

Just a quick update about this year’s VMware EXPLORE 2022 which is an in-person event this year. (Online too, so Hybrid event). VMware just unveiled a Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022. Let’s see and have a look and check out what you can expect. It seems that there are also some Tutorial sessions in the […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Tutorial Sessions in the Content Catalog VMware EXPLORE 2022

How to install Cockpit Navigator – Linux File Manager

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 27, 2022

Cockpit Navigator is a browser of file system on Linux. If you don’t know Cockpit yet, I think it’s a high time to discover it. Cockpit project is a web-based graphical interface for Linux servers. Cockpit support additional applications that allows you to manage storage (iSCSI, NFS, RAID…), Network, software updates, virtual machines, podman containers, […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: How to install Cockpit Navigator

Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility – VMware OS Optimization Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2022

VMware has productized one of their best Flings – VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT). If you have been around a long time enough you certainly remember this tool as a Fling, but no more. VMware has officially made it available within the Customer Connect portal. I think this tool is one of the Best Desktop […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 Tagged With: Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility

OSBoxes has tons of FREE preinstalled Linux VM Images in VMware or Virtual Box format for download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 4, 2022

I just wanted to quickly share my find and at the same time give heads up to the project from OSBoxes.org where you can find many FREE preinstalled Linux VM images for download. In fact, I have counted roughly 55 different preinstalled Linux distributions. The VM images are either in VMware or Virtual Box formats. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization

Tiny Linux OVF Download – SSH, NANO, NGINX and Open VM Tools Preinstalled

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 28, 2022

Tiny Linux VM OVA – this is just a note for me, but I thought it might be useful for other users. When working in a homelab and testing, you often need small VMs with a low amount of RAM configured. This one has only 48 Mb and runs SSH, NANO, NGINX, and also has […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff Tagged With: Tiny Linux OVF

Microsoft 365 Security Checklist Free E-Book to Download

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 5, 2022

One of our partners has a new Free E-book to download. It’s called Microsoft 365 Security checklist and it’s written by Paul Shnackenburg (Linked IN) who is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and consultant. Here is an overview of what you can find in the book. A few minutes and a credit card and you can […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Microsoft 365

Free Recovery software for SD Cards, SSDs or HDDs called WinfrGUI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2022

There is free software I want to highlight today. It’s called WinfrGUI and it is a Free recovery software for SD Cards, SSDs or HDDs. The software is able to recover files that are no longer in Recycle bin in Windows. When a file is permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin, it is invisible to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization Tagged With: recover files from SD Cards

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