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Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2020

I had this question in the comments on one of the posts on the blog and I thought that many users of ESXi Free version might be interested. In fact, yesterday someone asked on Twitter whether the ESXi 7.0 Free version will be available. I checked and it wasn’t. A 404 page at VMware made […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0 ESXi Free

FreeNAS 11.3 New Release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 30, 2020

Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and  ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: FreeNAS 11.3

FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI and updates

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 14, 2018

FreeNAS has been in development over years. I still remember setting up one of my first iSCSI connections for my ESXi lab with FreeNAS. Yeah, FreeNAS has a long history. This new release has brought in a new UI and some backend updates that we’ll talk about today – FreeNAS 11.2 Has a nice new UI […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Freenas

VMware Workstation 15 and Fusion 11 Major Releases

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 25, 2018

VMware Workstation 15

There is a big release from VMware Workstation and Fusion teams. We could already see what’s coming to Workstation and Fusion During VMworld Las Vegas by watching the free session online – The Future of VMware Workstation and Fusion. (direct MP4 download). But the software has been only available today, after teasing with several tweets […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Featured, Home Lab

VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMUG is Free

Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

This is a lab deployment of VMware vCSA 6.7. As you might notice, a few days ago we had a series of posts on VMware vSphere 6.7 which has just been announced and released the same day (a miracle?). Yeah, we downloaded the bits so it’s a lab time today to put things in works. vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vcsa 6.7 Installation

Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 1, 2018

For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software solutions before choosing the one […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips

Intel Optane 900P Low Price NVMe might Be a Perfect Fit For a Home Lab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Intel Optane SSD 900P from Intel

This news came from a fellow blogger Erik Bussink with who I had a conversation on Twitter last week. Erik has a MEGA homelab and he put me in a right direction when it comes to a choice of NVMe SSD for a VSAN cache tier. We’ll talk about Intel Optane 900p which might be a game […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Intel Optane 900P

How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2017

Windows 10 Anniversary

As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 24, 2017

How to create a GPO

The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy

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