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XCP-NG FREE Hypervisor and XO Lite to deploy XOA

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 22, 2025

What are all those shortcuts Vladan? Hey everyone and welcome to my new blog post about alternative virtualization platforms. Yes, Free VMware has come to an end and millions of ESXi FREE users are looking for alternative solutions for their home labs, small business or even enterprises. So yes, the time has come to move […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization, XCP-NG Tagged With: XCP-NG FREE hypervisor

Friday Freebie – VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2024

Hmm, we’re not really Friday, I know, but due to the luck of time, I wasn’t able to write about the news earlier. My friends knows that atm I’m on a very important personal project (will be finished in 1-2 months). But here we go – Friday Freebie and VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion! My […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips

View PSTs without Outlook with this FREEWARE called Outlook Viewer

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 1, 2024

Friday Freebie is here! There are times that you wand to open a PST file and you don’t have Outlook configured and installed on your system. You might have some old PSTs that you have backed up and need to view what’s inside. In this post we’ll have a look at this FREEWARE called Outlook […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: FREEWARE called Outlook Viewer

Nutanix Community Edition

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 27, 2024

I feel this is the right timing for this. By VMware ending ESXi FREE Hypervisor, people running their home labs have no choice – switch to another FREE Hypervisor. We have detailed the announce – Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD – and we were not particularly happy with that, but hey, the […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization, Tips

Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 16, 2024

In this series of posts that we’ll be creating over the next couple of weeks, we’ll try to list the best VMware Alternatives for virtualization of servers. Many alternative vendors does not do VDI so we won’t include those in our series. VMware does VDI pretty well and their Horizon/One products got pretty good over […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Home Lab, Server Virtualization

How PrivaZer FREE Edition Protects Your Privacy on Your Windows PC

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 9, 2024

If you care about your privacy and security, you know how important it is to clean your Windows PC from traces of your past activities. These traces can reveal your personal information, your browsing habits, your software usage, and more. They can also slow down your PC performance and compromise your security. That’s why you […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: PrivaZer FREE Edition

What is Veeam VHR and how to quickly install and create hardened repository?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2023

During VeeamON 2023 in Miami Beach, a Veeam’s annual data protection conference, there was one session which I think it is worth my effort and blog about it, yes, for sure. There are many more great session to watch, and I think that most likely they’ll be up on online very soon. We had a […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: What is Veeam VHR

vExpert Homelab with Intel Optane

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 25, 2023

Being part of a vExpert program has been an awesome journey for me since the beginning. Since when I started blogging, the VMware vExpert award was something that makes me proud, pushes me forward in my career and also brings some goodies. As a vExpert I can express my thanks to @Intel and @vExpert program for the […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: vExpert Homelab with Intel Optane

Sync data between several folders, systems and NAS devices with this cool software called Echosync

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 12, 2023

Have you been looking for a fast and reliable software that can backup your local folder(s) and files, replicate them to another system, NAS device or another PC across your network, with simplicity and reliability? Don’t look further, we are introducing a software called Echosync that can dync data between several folders, systems and NAS […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Sync data between several folders

VMware vExpert and VMUG Advantage Benefits for your career

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 27, 2023

VMware vExpert program gives you an unique opportunity for IT admins to get in touch with this amazing community of people which you can get in touch with, learn more about VMware products, get more recognition in your job, and access to some goodies such as VMware 365 Days NFR licenses for your lab, private […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMware vExpert and VMUG Advantage Benefits

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