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VMware ESXi FREE and incremental backups

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

In today’s post we’ll talk about a solution for VMware ESXi Free version incremental backups. Fairly often those people are facing problems to be able to back up their VMs on regular basis by using incremental backups. There is a Free backup solution called VMCom backup that can be used for the job. ESXi free […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: ESXi free backup, VMcom Backup

VMware Workstation 16 Pro and Fusion 12 Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 16, 2020

It’s been several months since VMware hinted with a new release of VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12. It was during the last VMworld that we saw Hyper-V Mode at the same time as VMware nested virtualization running at the same time. Both products were also announced through VMware blogs earlier in August but many […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Home Lab Tagged With: VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation 16

How to Build Your StarWind vSAN Infrastructure from Scratch and ensure that it runs at Maximum Speed

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 14, 2020

StarWind is hosting a new webinar which is certainly not to miss – Build Your StarWind Infrastructure from Scratch and Ensure That It’s Running on Maximum Speed! You’ll learn from StarWind engineers how to make sure that what you build is operating at high, see maximum, speed. Virtual infrastructure has often a bottleneck. It is about […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind VSAN

Snapt’s Free Nova Community Edition – Details and Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Snapt Nova WAF

ADCs have become a standard in load balancing solutions because they provide not only the load balancing services but also full Layer 7 Load Balancing with HTTP and SSL acceleration, Web App Firewalling (WAF) and other security features. We recently reported on Snapt’s Nova Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Snapt develops modern, software-only solutions for application […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Application Delivery Controller

VMware Workstation FREE Update Released – 15.5.5

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 31, 2020

VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro

VMware Workstation Free Update has been released. This is a Workstation 15.5.5 release which brings very awaited functionality by many IT admins. It is a possibility to run nested vSphere labs as well as Hyper-V labs on the same machine. It is the first time that VMWare ESXi nested hypervisor can run alongside with Microsoft […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMware Workstation FREE

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

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