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vSphere 8 Lab with Cohesity and VMware vExpert gift – Maxtang’s NX 6412 NUC

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

As you could read in my previous article, during VMworld VMEXPLORE Barcelona 2022, I’ve been given a gift as a vExpert. The nice fan-less unit is now installed with ESXi 8 in my lab, and in this post I’ll share my installation experience and how I found a workaround on not recognized built-in NICs. There […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Home Lab Tagged With: vSphere 8 Lab

Patch your ESXi 7.x again

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Another day with another critical VMware ESXi 7.0 U3g patch was released a couple of days ago. This time again you can get the latest ISO here. VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0U3g – Download. The latest release is fixing issues only, but you should patch your ESXi 7.x again. There are no new features included. […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: Patch your ESXi 7.x again

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

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